be

because on most days you don't feel like a boss

you feel like a babysitter I'm Tim David and in this video I'm going to share with you a

quirky little brain poke called the Pygmalion effect

that you can use to almost magically motivate and

engage your team by changing a single

word that you say

Inside your own head

the year was nineteen sixty-four and Harvard University's Robert K

Rosenthal and just teamed up with a school principal

named Lenore Jacobson and they were about to conduct

an experiment that would become very very famous

a group of students were given an IQ test only

they didn't call it an IQ test in fact they put a new cover on it

and gave a fancy sounding title

The Harvard Test of Inflicted Acquisition after the students took the test

the researchers told the teachers a series of lies

they said this group over here

they did really well on this fancy test which means that they're probably going

to improve their performance

over the coming year but this group of students over here

hmm...not so much now each group of students

was chosen completely at random it had nothing to do

with the test results but the teachers

didn't know that so what do you suppose happen to the group of students

that had high expectations placed on them

believe it or not their performance improved

their behavior problems went down and at the end of the year check this out

they found that their IQ's had also

increased now the group of people with the low expectations placed on them

their performance dropped so simply by changing the perspective

and the expectation of the teacher the students' performance

was altered and this doesn't only happen in school classrooms

this study has been repeated time and time again in schools

in organizations in companies and the results

are always the same Robert Rosenthal himself said "hey

this is not magic is the hundreds and thousands

tiny ways that we alter our interactions

based on what we expect from people"

so if we think of ourselves as babysitters ultimately we'll think of our

teams

as babies we'll treat them like babies and they will respond

like babies so we need to upgrade

our leadership style maybe you think of yourself as a boss

this is better because at least we're dealing with adults but who wants to be

a boss seriously who wants to work for a boss

the boss is the most hated figure in America so we're going to have to

upgrade

our leadership style maybe you think of yourself as a supervisor this one's got

to be good man it's right on your business card heck, it's even got the word "super"

right in there but the truth of the matter is supervisor implies someone who

stands

and watches maybe gives direction and this is not a leadership style that

people will respect

and this is not a leadership style that is going to work

to take advantage of the Pygmalion effect we need to upgrade our leadership

style thinking maybe you think of your self as a manager

now we're getting somewhere right this is someone who is engaged who's involved

they're

putting people in places where they can succeed and manager is a great term

but there's something even better in fact maybe you have been thinking of

leadership styles such as

coach or even the word leader or visionary and all these are phenomenal

terms

however if you really want to take advantage of the Pygmalion effect

then you must adopt the following leadership

style So let's fast-forward to nineteen seventy where another Robert K

Robert K Greenleaf is about to coin a phrase that is gonna flip

the business world on its head and that phrase

is servant-leader and doesn't that take your company's org chart

you know the one with the CEO at the top then the VPs then middle-management all

the way down to the worker bees

doesn't it take that and make it look more like this

I mean, think about it. Your team doesn't work for you

you work for your team isn't our job as leaders to be

underneath them supporting them lifting them up empowering them, equipping them,

seeing things in them they don't even see

in themselves isn't that our job

as a servant leader so can you see how adopting the mindset of servant leadership

is going to affect the hundreds and thousands of ways that you interact with

your team

is going to affect their very motivation how engaged they are

how much work they do, how productive they are, how effective, how creative

it's going to affect them in ways that even you

didn't think were possible so let me ask you which one of these leadership styles

best describes you go ahead and comment in the box below

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