Few managers and leaders understand the importance of the team in motivating the individual to perform, a new workplace L.E.A.D. Survey has found.<\/p>\n

The survey revealed a gulf between what employees know influences their performance and what managers and leaders believe influences that performance.<\/p>\n

Leadership Management Australasia has been conducting the Leadership Employment and Direction (L.E.A.D.) Survey for 14 years. This latest wave involved 2,660 respondents across Leader, Manager and Employee sectors and was completed Friday, October 31. They were asked to nominate which five factors had the most positive influence on their own, and staff\u2019s, performance at work, today.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest gaps was the ranking on \u201cGood relationship with other staff\u201d. Employees ranked it equal third while Managers ranked it at 12th and Leaders at 8th.<\/p>\n

Leaders seem to believe \u201cgood feedback and communication\u201d can influence employee performance ahead of all other influences (ranking it #1 influence) including \u201creasonable salary\/pay\u201d which they rank 4th, \u201cflexible work arrangements\u201d at 7th and \u201crelationships with other staff\u201d at equal 8th.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeems our managers and leaders don\u2019t align with what influences employee performance,\u201d LMA CEO, Andrew Henderson said. \u201cThey don\u2019t truly know what makes employees tick at an individual level. The better we understand our people, the greater the performance they can and will deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Henderson said the new research supports LEAD Survey\u2019s consistent finding that 25% of employees say their manager seldom or never listens to them or understands the issues they face.<\/p>\n

Given the variability in the rankings of influences on performance, Mr Henderson said it was clear that few managers and leaders understood the role the team can play in motivating the individual to perform.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome managers and leaders have that connection with their people, but sadly, this is not yet the norm,\u201d he said \u201cWith significant advances made in management development and training, it is a surprise to see management is still not listening to their people, a foundation stone for workplace performance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with a team we like to work with can override or allow us to overlook deficiencies in other influences, such as the inability to provide market-competitive salaries in a tight economic environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaders and managers who don\u2019t invest time and energy in understanding their people and their motivations, run a very real risk that the needs of their people won\u2019t be met or supported by the organisation and those valuable team members will become disengaged, disillusioned and unproductive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be the first to jump ship,\u201d said Mr Henderson.<\/p>\n

LMA\u2019s L.E.A.D. Survey Summary Report suggests that leaders and managers in many organisations still routinely forget that true motivation to perform comes from within the individual \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s not something we DO TO our people, it\u2019s something they DO FOR THEMSELVES.\u201d It comes through their identification of the needs they seek to fulfil through their work and their commitment to perform to their potential \u2013 to work to satisfy those needs. As leaders, managers, coaches, all we can really do then is support their initiative and impetus to help them on their journey.<\/p>\n

Article from the Global Travel Blog website, 26 November 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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