Objectives

After completing the study of this manual, you should be able to:

• Control your responsibilities and results

• Initialize performance that is above and beyond your job role

• Increase your personal influence in your surroundings

• Perform well under added pressure

• Adapt to changing work situations

• Become an employee that other people want to work with

• Influence others to improve their performance

• Identify factors that affect your motivation

• Apply key skills that model community, influence and openness

• Match your leadership style to meet perferences of other in the practice

• Find inhibitors that foster group commitment

• Encourage others in your group to take initiative

• Establish an environment of ownership and accountability

• Determine strategies that will help you deal with negative outside pressures