Donnelly Effect delivers 17 in '17: 17 actionable SPARKS to ignite your team for better leadership, customer and employee experience and a better bottom line.
This is exactly how employees feel when their leaders give them mixed signals. Just like you search for clarity during your daily interactions, employees seek the same from their leaders. Their decision to behave in a certain manner is based on key messages they hear from those in power.
As leaders, what we SAY matters. Often more than we ever realized. Therefore, leaders have an opportunity to build engaged teams by simply reinforcing key messages. Whether you’re searching for an effective way to implement changes company-wide or ways to foster engagement within your teams, there’s a way to do it better. Here’s how:
Whether it be in the form of a story, a pre-shift huddle, or an open and honest conversation with employees about their goals, leaders are constantly influencing employee behaviors.
So as you look to support and grow your team, consider how you want them to FEEL and how you want them to BEHAVE each and every day. Your messages must be:
During my time as a Disney leader, I found that overarching, continuous messaging produced the best results. At Disney, great leaders identified key messages and hammered away at them, day in, and day out. Eventually those messages morphed into observable behaviors in our cast members.
ABOUT MIKE DONNELLY: With over 20 years of Disney leadership experience, Mike Donnelly, Chief Experience Officer (CEO) of Donnelly Effect shares his insights on Talent Selection and Hiring, Employee Onboarding, Customer Experience, Service Culture and Leadership-among others. Donnelly Effect is home of the exclusive "World-Class Workshop" series and offers consulting services and keynote addresses to audiences of all sizes and industries. Since 2007, Mike Donnelly has been a contracted Disney Institute Facilitator, delivering Disney customer service training to audiences across the United States.