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FOCUS REPORTS

The collection of Bulletpoint Focus Reports provides an operational toolbox for busy managers. Each report is dedicated to helping managers develop the softer skills in management. Insight, inspiration, solutions and knowledge in just 16 pages.

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  Building Employee Initiative

Everyone has moments when going the extra mile, or thinking outside the box, makes the difference between seizing opportunity and succumbing to a threat. But many organisational structures date from earlier, easier business conditions, when managers knew what people had to do - and didn’t want them to act differently.

Ensuring people take initiative when it’s called for, equipping them to expand it, rewarding them for it and letting others learn from it, requires a mix of managerial skills that are often pitched under separate buzzwords:

 
  • involvement
  • knowledge sharing
  • job enrichment
  • empowerment
  • incentive building
  • participatory management


This report sets out the building blocks of employee initiative, reviews its positive and negative consequences, and shows how companies in diverse sectors believe they’ve benefited from it.
 

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    Contents:
  • The Need for
    Initiative
  • Winning Initiatives
  • Ensuring
    Involvement
  • Aligning Goals
  • Aspiration into
    Action
  • Spreading Knowledge
  • Unleashing
    Creativity
  • Incentives for
    Initiative
  • A Culture of
    Initiative
  • Leading Initiative
  • Team Initiative
  • References &
    Further Reading

 

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