{"id":59,"date":"2015-12-18T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-12-18T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:29:47","slug":"12-18-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/2015\/12\/18\/12-18-15\/","title":{"rendered":"12.18.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This and That:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following is an\u00a0excerpt from a Harvard Business Review article entitled: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/2\/folders\/0BwH82Aoi_UKTcGdhZHllRlJQcDA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Engaging Your Employees is Good, but Don&#8217;t Stop There&#8221;<\/a> (by Eric Garton and Michael C. Mankins, December 9, 2015). \u00a0I thought it was a great reminder of\u00a0what our teachers need (from us) in order to work at her\/his highest level as both an instructional expert\u00a0and\u00a0contributor to your school community. \u00a0If\u00a0this excerpt makes you want to read more about the &#8220;what&#8221; you can do to encourage more Inspired Employees, just click on the hot link above for the full article!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Genius, as Thomas A. Edison famously declared, may be 1%\u00a0 inspiration and 99% perspiration. But building a company employees truly love reverses the equation: it\u2019s almost all inspiration, and sweat has only a little to do with it. This is the unexpected conclusion of new research from Bain &amp; Company, conducted in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the background. Many commentators talk glibly about employee \u201cengagement,\u201d as if that concept were all-encompassing and easy to define. But we have always found it helpful to break the idea into its component parts.<\/p>\n<p>The foundational elements\u2014call them employee satisfaction\u2014are fundamentals such as having a safe work environment and the tools necessary to do the job. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplypsychology.org\/maslow.html\">Abraham Maslow<\/a> taught us that we can\u2019t concern ourselves with higher goals until we have the necessities of life, including security. So it is in the workplace: first things first.<\/p>\n<p>Next come the elements of true engagement, such as the feeling that you\u2019re part of an extraordinary team, that you\u2019re learning and growing, and that you can make a real impact. And then, at the top\u2014perhaps the equivalent of Maslow\u2019s self-actualization\u2014is the feeling that you derive meaning and purpose from the company\u2019s mission. That\u2019s inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us know how important inspiration can be in everyday life. In the workplace, as one pundit put it, employees react differently when they encounter a wall. Satisfied employees hold a meeting to discuss what to do about walls. Engaged employees begin looking around for ladders to scale the wall. Inspired employees break\u00a0right through it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-14-at-4.55.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jim.boen\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-14-at-4.55.42-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-14 at 4.55.42 PM\" width=\"754\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be having an all admin Leadership meeting at 3:15 on January 4, our first day back from the break. \u00a0Additionally, there will be a New Administrator meeting beginning at 2:00 on this day as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and That: Following is an\u00a0excerpt from a Harvard Business Review article entitled: &#8220;Engaging Your Employees is Good, but Don&#8217;t Stop There&#8221; (by Eric Garton and Michael C. 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