Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them - John C. Maxwell The current community trends shows very negative information floating around. It projects data as though the communities are becoming more and more self-centered and individualistic. I tend to agree with this generalization to an extent. We have become a lot self-centered than we were 30 years back. I do not want to delve on the WHY part but want to see how to improve the situation. With this as a background I did some research on how to change the way a community works. I wanted to get people to do more work such as getting them to come out on VOTE on election day, save water in their houses, give more to deserving charities, consume less electricity and finally keeping the office pantry clean by not washing their lunch boxes with left overs. In my current work place I tried to get many of the people to reuse the one-side printed papers and also to try and reduce the number of papers used in the printers. In order to get this program going, we introduced new initiatives and processes. It was all good but there was an inherent weakness in the system: PEOPLE. People needed to adopt this initiative for it to become a success. We made many colourful posters and employee reward programs for using less paper but I was not successful. The number of people who signed up for this initiative was very less but everyone kept saying it was a great initiative. So I went back to the drawing tables with a select team to think on how to get more participation. One of the members in the team suggested a small change. Instead of sign up portals, posters and email registrations, we just put up a small sign-up sheet near the printers and asked them to give their Name, employee number and sign it. Within a week the participation doubled. Wondering WHY?.
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AuthorVasudevan is a Leadership Mentor and an Executive coach. I run an online website geared towards helping creative entrepreneurs and future managers to build their dreams. Archives
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