People Development Quotes

“The job facing production managers focuses on how to help their team maintain hope while also addressing the sometimes brutal or dismal facts of their situation. If the truth of their position remains unseen, they will never grow the skills necessary to resolve it.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“Managing activities, not results, requires a comprehensive application of the skills inherent in gained ownership. It is the true test of your management abilities and will cause you the greatest amount of personal growth and satisfaction.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“All the managers I interviewed had the same sense of identity and self-assurance. None of them were arrogant. Instead, they were clear about who they were and what needed accomplishing. They used that sense of self to engage their team and learn each team member’s strengths and contributions. Their courage and confidence were infectious to their team and to anyone who crossed their paths.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“When you give an assignment, don’t take it back!”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“Working harder to achieve results usually results in frustration and failure. The focus of work is the activities that generate results, not the results themselves.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“If climate drives business results, what drives climate? 50-70% of how employees perceive their organization’s climate corresponds to the actions of one person: their manager.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“One cannot measure a manager’s knowledge and performance in a vacuum. It involves their participation in business activities while bringing all of themselves to the process of development, including their spiritual, personal, and skill & ability development.”
― Raymond Wheeler, Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive

“You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Developing humans has nothing to do with developing their skills. Developing humans is about getting them in connection with their primitiveness and what their Instinct guide them to what they should do in life. Afterwards any efforts to skill them will pay off immediately. We get humans to connect with their core primitiveness and instinct through readings, meditating, loving, awakening them, and maybe make them
notice how life can enhance all.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“Development in general doesn’t make you better employee or better manager. Development makes you a better human who is able to invest the best in you to add beauty and meaning to your life and the rest of the world.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“People who dislike you do not need you fail, they only need you to stop choosing how you want to exist”
― Sameh Elsayed

“Workers are begging us to lighten their load, to remove the burdens, the hassles, and the irritants that come with video meetings.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“If you say, I know just how you feel, you show the other person you’re thinking about how you feel, and you’re assuming your experience is the same as theirs.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“The first part of empathy, the first requirement for action on their behalf, is to understand how they feel.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“Self-other awareness enables you to show respect for their feelings instead of being overwhelmed by their feelings, your pity, or your intolerance.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“Savvy leaders use empathy to relieve that emotional strain. They use it so that video meetings are beneficial for everyone.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“Empathy greases the wheels of productivity.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“In an ever-changing, hyper-competitive workplace and marketplace, for you to truly be of worth as a leader, you therefore know: you must develop your capacity for empathy.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships

“When what they feel evokes something familiar in you, you’re likely to mimic their emotions unconsciously.”
― Betty Johnson, Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships