Plugging into Passions: How to Leverage Motivators at Work to Mobilize Energy for Change

By Myron Radio

Unleash energy and achieve alignment in a whole new way!

Plugging into Passions is a process for leading change that focuses on the individuals at every level of your organization. The process merges overall best practices in change management with recent developments in assessment methodologies to provide a powerful new approach for leaders at all levels.

Learn how to:

Predict when and why your team members will embrace some tasks and avoid others. Connect with your employees in a way that increases their commitment to their work and the organization. Communicate using key words that unleash energy and tap into each persons unique passion. Build support for your ideas and initiatives from peers, executives, and stakeholders. Create implementation strategies that not only reduce resistance, but that actually create a firestorm of support.

Plugging into Passions is grounded in the belief that the most effective way to get people to embrace and accelerate change is to unleash the energy that is at the core of each person. It is not a magic bullet, but it is a crucial tool for anyone who strives to be an effective change leader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462002139

Myron Radio

Myron Radio and Wendy Mack have a passion for leveraging the human factors of organizations to impact success. Their evidenced-based approach to organizational management gives leaders the ability to unleash individual commitment and maximize results. Myron J. Radio is the founder and president of The R Group. Myron’s specialty is building high-powered teams and developing the people within them. Myron offers a complete range of organizational diagnostics and developmental programs in the area of leadership development and change management, all for the sake a strategy execution. He lives with his wife Jeanie in northern Virginia. Wendy B. Mack is an expert on leading and communicating change. Since founding T3 Consulting in 2001, Wendy has consulted with dozens of companies on the engagement and communication aspects of their change initiatives. Wendy is also the author of numerous books and articles on the topics of change, communication, and leadership. Wendy works with change leaders and change teams via keynote speeches, workshops, strategic consulting, and coaching. She lives with her husband Steve in Woodland Park, Colorado. Myron and Wendy have previously co-authored CHANGE AT THE CORE - Unleash Your Team's Energy to Drive Results.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction:

Change Leadership is More Crucial than Ever

Chapter 1:

Introducing Internal Energy

Chapter 2:

Understanding Internal Energy

Chapter 3:

Leveraging Passions to Lead Change

Chapter 4:

Understanding Each Person’s Internal Energy

Chapter 5:

Connecting and Communicating

Chapter 6:

Appreciating and Addressing Resistance

Chapter 7:

Unleashing Each Person’s Energy to Power Change

Chapter 8:

Getting Started

Chapter 9:

Sustaining Change

About the Authors

Endnotes

Dedication

This book is dedicated to our families, friends, colleagues and clients who continue to support us.

Introduction:

Change Leadership is More Crucial than Ever

Whether you are a director, vice-president, functional leader, or program or project lead, one of the most powerful and pivotal roles you can play in your organization is that of a change leader. Markets change, technologies evolve, the competition shifts, and mergers and acquisitions occur. As a result, your organization must constantly change in order to succeed and survive. And it is your job to lead the transformation.

Will You Rise to the Challenge?

Many of the leaders we’ve met report that their proudest accomplishments revolve around a time that they led a change successfully and accomplished it through a total team effort. In their bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner suggest that the study of leadership is in fact the study of how men and women guide us through adversity, uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, and transition.¹ In other words, leadership is all about change and change requires leadership.

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The Challenge of Being a Change Leader

You know that changing will help your organization gain a competitive advantage, enter new markets, improve the productivity and effectiveness of your workforce, and so on. Yet, when your employees and stakeholders hear about a