BSP 062: Why They Follow by Scott Love

Scott Love, author of Why They Follow: How to Lead with Positive
Influence, talks about the concept of leadership and how companies
can increase retention by focusing on building loyalty between a
boss and their employees. He says that people often turn down
better, high paying opportunities because they have a positive
relationship with their boss, one level up. How can managers
develop that type of loyalty? By leading, not on authority, but on
personal leadership. Managers who take the time to tell employees
why their work matters, give them feedback and tell them how their
work makes a difference, achieve that loyalty. Love says that
“followable leaders get more engagement out of employees.” If your
employees don’t think you’re “followable,” they’ll only give the
minimum effort. Managers must also remember that it’s always about
the team and the goal. It’s “about accomplishing the mission by
harnessing and guiding the intrinsic motivations of those employees
and the accomplishment of the collective goal,” Love says. Learn
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