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The Pygmalion Effect at Work

Are You Setting Your Team UP for Success?

It is no accident that good leaders have the highest performing departments. Good teams are not happenstance. Rather, good leaders build good teams. Even better…great leaders build great teams.

High-performance employees work for high-expectation managers! That’s right; the higher expectation a boss has of his workers, the higher the performance of his/her staff. The Pygmalion Effect is an age-old phenomenon in which it is shown that our performance is that of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If a boss considers his employees to be smart and productive, that is almost always the type of performance the boss will witness. If a boss believes his employees to be lazy and non-committal at work, this is the performance that will almost always be present in his workers. Employees will live “up to” or “down to” your expectations. Continue reading ‘The Pygmalion Effect at Work’ »

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