Connect the day-to-day work directly to a higher, meaningful purpose that helps people and makes a positive difference in the world. Fulfill emotional needs for significance and impact, not just completing tasks. Help people see how their efforts contribute to serving others and align with their values. Inspire through purpose.

Connecting Work to a Higher Purpose

People don't primarily work for financial gain or career advancement. People work to belong and contribute to something beyond themselves.

Build an energized community spirit within teams through shared experiences, camaraderie and interpersonal connections that fill people's deep need to belong. Make time for personal interactions, team building activities, and creating bonds between members. Treat people like human beings, not just workers.

Fostering Strong Communities

<ul><li>Emphasize shared values, purpose and principles more than enforcing strict rules. </li><li>Ensure values align to higher purpose. </li><li>Allow flexibility in how people uphold the values day-to-day. </li><li>Nurture personal alignment over blind rule-following.</li></ul>

Aligning Values Over Rules

Lead through empowering others rather than commanding. Serve team needs with compassion. Remain grounded by listening and avoid ego. Guide with humility, wisdom and care, not just authority. Seek to understand and lift others up.

Leading Through Empowering Service

<ul><li>Appeal to people’s core personal identities and innate human need to be valued members of a group. </li><li>Enable team members to show up authentically as their best selves at work. </li><li>Make them feel recognized, respected and appreciated for their unique abilities and passions. </li><li>Understand their drives and motivations at a deeper level.</li></ul>

Fulfilling Core Identities

An opportunity to do something meaningful together with people who care about you will almost always trump extra pay or prestige

<ul><li>Promote constant learning, development and growth mindsets.</li><li> Help people build new skills, knowledge and competencies.</li><li> Provide challenges, training and mentorship. </li><li>Enable ongoing career progress and transformation vs. status quo. </li><li>Remove obstacles to growth.</li></ul>

Nurturing Continuous Growth 

<ul><li>Allow appropriate autonomy for people to express their unique talents, creativity and personas. </li><li>Avoid rigid conformity. Enable people to customize aspects of their work experience to align with their authentic selves. </li><li>Empower them to have a voice in decisions.</li></ul>

Encouraging Authentic Self-Expression

 The book Exceptional by Daniel Cable discusses ways to inspire teams and transform organizations by appealing to people's sense of identity, purpose and community belonging. It provides evidence-based advice for leaders.

"A bold new approach to improving your performance and deepening your purpose." —DANIEL H. PINK, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive, When, and To Sell Is Human A Three-Step Process to Access and Activate Your Full Potential Imagine switching on the television to see a highlight reel of the best moments from your life. Like a professional athlete, with every clip you'd learn how to repeat past successes, pinpoint positive blind spots, and build confidence in your skills. In Exceptional, London Business School professor and expert social scientist Daniel M. Cable reveals how building your own personal highlight reel—a collection of positive memories about yourself from your network—is key to accessing your potential. Using the latest science and proven research behind best-self activation, his three-step process will help you improve your life by: • Focusing on what you do best • Crafting a life around your strengths • Increasing your confidence and resilience Cable has worked with tens of thousands of people to create their highlight reels and make the most of their gifts. The three-step process ultimately reveals how living up to your full potential can improve the relationships you value most and transform your mindset to one of possibility. Each of us can bring forth a version of ourself that is uniquely outstanding. It's a version of ourself that already exists—all we have to do is access it. • A practical book on how to create one's own human highlight reel, and then use that highlight reel to direct one to success, growth, happiness, and fulfillment in work and life based on scientific results • Great for readers interested in achieving self-improvement and a sense of purpose. • You'll love this book if you love books like Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy, and The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Digital audio edition read by the author.

DANIEL M. CABLE

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