Do companies feel the pain of not having emotional commitment from their managers or employees? Ask any company at any time about its top ten chronic challenges. Manager and employee performance will almost always appear on the list - finding them, keeping them, paying them, training them, and motivating them.
What companies must learn is that managers and employees don’t necessarily want to work less. They just want it to mean more. A key question, then, is “What is needed to create the highest level of self-sustaining motivation and to gain the emotional commitment of a companies’ managers and employees?”
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Sally Starbuck Stamp, BA, BSN, MC coaches and consults with individuals and organizations primarily in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning, communication skills, change management, and life/work effectiveness. Sally has extensive experience with health care providers as both an internal and external team member.
Sally served as Assistant Administrator for Patient Care Services and interim hospital administrator for the Dubois Area Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania before joining the Pittsburgh office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant in the health care specialty consulting practice. As a senior manager for the firm, Sally led teams in providing services that included: strategic visioning/planning; merger and acquisition evaluation; financial feasibility studies; and workflow development and design.
Sally has a BA in Sociology and Psychology from Denison University; a BSN from Kent State University; and a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University. She completed her coach training at the Adler School of Professional Coaching, SW, and is a member of the International Coach Federation.
More Quotes
- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot
- "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
- "To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
- "Leadership today, like coaching, is awareness based. It takes reflection - noticing impact, internal and external - deep listening, less talking and telling, and more asking. It takes soliciting feedback and the courage to hear it. It takes authenticity, vulnerability and caring - qualities which historically have not been highly valued in the corporate world." - Adria Trowhill, 2008 Canadian Coach of the Year
- “It is a sad fate for a man to die well known to others but unknown to himself” - Francis Bacon
- "Purpose is the place where your heart's deepest gladness and the world's greatest need intersect." - Richard Nelson Bolles
- "Test lots of things. Fail often." - Seth Godin
- "To the extent that people can become clear about the purpose of their lives, the mission they believe they have been placed on this earth to accomplish, and the values they hold close to their hearts, they will have more fulfilling experiences, especially if they're able to connect those values and goals to their roles at work." - Thomas Crane
- "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." - Leonardo Da Vinci
- "Timeless leadership is always about character, and it is always about authenticity. Discover and cultivate that authentic self, the part of you that is most alive, the part that is most you. Finding and nurturing that authentic self is the one sure way of becoming a leader." - Warren Bennis
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