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Creating a strategic plan to maximize employee productivity is all about understanding the employees and the work environment; the strategic plan should therefore be centered on them. The key elements of this plan will include effective leadership and motivation.
Being appointed as a leader for a project and/or group of colleagues is both an honor and responsibility not meant to be taken lightly. Effective leaders are intelligent, ambitious, charismatic, sociable, and have character. Being intelligent contributes to a leader’s ability to solve problems; their degree of higher intelligence also enhances their perceived competence compared to their followers. Since motivation is related to the level of effort people put into what they are doing, leaders should create roles that tap into employee know-how and the full range of their abilities, thus using their higher intelligence, to create an incentive plan to recognize and reward superior performance that is inclusive of all employees (not just senior management/employees) and structured carefully enough to avoid excessive costs to t...

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