Recently I was on an interesting conference in Warsaw. It was about how to be an effective leader in times of change. A very interesting event, with presentations, discussion and interesting speakers. Actually, I had also a presentation in which I talked about leadership in PGS Software: what we do, what we try to do and what we should do but we don’t succeed.

I liked very much a presentation of Merlyn Beeman – Vice President of Leadership Management International from US. I’m not going to summarize the whole presetation, but there was one slide which I found very important for me and for our company.  Gallup Institute has made a survey to find out what motivates employees and what are the key factors that make employees like their organizations. Here are the results:

• I know what is expected of me at work
• I have the equipment and materials I need to do my work right
• At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day
• In the last 7 days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work
• My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person
• There is someone at work who encourages my development
• In the past 6 months, someone at work has talked to me about my progress
• At work, my opinions seem to count
• The mission and purpose of my company make me feel my job is important
• My fellow employees are committed to doing quality work
• I have a best friend at work

Even if not all of these points are “my points”, I found this very accurate.