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5 Strategic Ways Leaders Leverage Human Capital

Want an easy formula for understanding leaders who engage the hearts and minds of every person on their teams?

Whenever someone seems unsure of the leader's primary priority by asking me these kinds of questions, then I know too much confusion remains concerning this important topic:

1) When must leaders lead?

2) What exactly are leaders supposedly responsible for doing?

3) How and in what ways should a group leader proceed in leading the organization?

Maybe you can use this article in learning how wise leaders evaluate, map out and go about performing their most imperative work - that is, to leverage the hidden potential of their group's human capital.

Hopefully you will appreciate this one essential truth: capable leadership means investing in and increasing the value of your "human capital equation".

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Human Capital Asset Enrichment Strategy 1:

Learn The Behavioral Workings of Your Capital Assets!

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You will discover there are four general classes of human capital "assets".

Because your leadership success depends on your working knowledge of these assets, you need to view them in your mind as being those means by which all of us add value to our world, to our communities and to our corporate progress.

Regardless of the surroundings, people purposely attempt to add value to their fellow creatures - I call those value-appreciating effects, "capital assets".

Here are those value-leveraging effects:

Production - defined as the ability to create, evaluate, perform, deliver, process, supply, execute, apply or produce and any other "functional" activities which yield tangible results.

Knowledge - may be thought of as possessing an ability to think, analyze, conceive, extrapolate, interpret or translate and other mental, reasoning, cogitating or intellectual actions.

Social - the formation or reinforcement of relationships, communities, teams, partnerships or alliances, along with the developing and sustaining of networks, interactions, exchanges or transactions with and between other people.

Utilization - applies the concepts of reaching and incorporates the capabilities required for moving towards growing, improving, enhancing, evolving, developing, learning, educating and progressing beyond one's current, innate or natural ability - may be described as the tendency to act towards fulfilling, achieving or surpassing one's potential.

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Human Capital Asset Enrichment Strategy 2:

Focus the Considerable Impacts of Our Capital Assets!

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When you are focusing your attention on, sharpening your oversight of and magnifying the impacts for each of the four workplace-empowering areas of: Production, Knowledge, Social Capital and Utilization, you will certainly enjoy a venerable treasure trove of positive outcomes.

However what other goals might heap even larger, more sustainable pay-offs if you concentrate your efforts on developing them?

Here are some ways your leadership efforts can help others produce mutually-beneficial results:

Value - you will increase the impact of this desirable benefit simply by constantly questioning the meaning of your group's work engagements - are we doing this task to add value or because we have always done it or because we are supposed to do it this way?

Quality - improving the quality of the processes that your group uses to accomplish its work must be a continual process unto itself - how much and in what ways do we leverage the 4 areas to enhance our efficiency, improve our resourcefulness and increase our effectiveness?

Motives - what inspires you is many times just as important as what your motivation inspires you to achieve - does your group invest any of their time and energies into exploring the values, beliefs, meanings, purposes and objectives propelling their daily efforts?

Capacity - building upon the competencies, performances, know-how and knowledge, facts and figures and growth opportunities are critical in these days of disruptive, unyielding, break-neck pace of change - how do you develop the capacity or potential for innovating each of those critical 4 areas?

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Human Capital Asset Enrichment Strategy 3:

Utilize All The Awesome Power of Your Capital Attributes!

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You are already very familiar with each of your own capital attributes - they are, your physical, intellectual, spiritual and developmental natures.

Successful leaders wisely inspire us to fully involve those attributes of our human natures - they understand that people endeavor to be at their best when they have a chance to totally apply:

- Their 5 physical senses - consists of their 'actions-on' the world (called the physical nature),

- Their creative and cognitive minds - characterized by their 'actions-with' the world (our intellectual or mental nature),

- Their soul [their will, psychological and emotional natures] and spirit - perceived as their 'actions-for' rationalizing worldly realities (your spiritual side)

- Their ability to learn new things and then innovate and apply their new knowledge to solve problems, overcome challenges and handle situations - apprehended by their 'actions-towards' handling the world's challenges (I call this our potential for developing skills or knowledge beyond our current state).

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Human Capital Asset Enrichment Strategy 4:

Grandly Evolve, Expand and Energize Your Resources!

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The most important asset in every organized effort is the human resource.

Leaders must never the rules governing human resources

- Humans should never be seated on the bench for an entire game,

- Humans should never be under-estimated and

- Humans should never be short-changed in their training and development.

Failure to observe those warnings is a sickness many leaders inflict on the people in their groups.

Yet an unbelievable 95% of all organizations violate most of those dictates everyday - want proof?

Just look for and you will usually find one or more symptoms of this disease thriving in your organization, your partner networks or within your own heart, mind or behaviors:

- Unimaginative, uninspired work products or practices

- Frustrated, fearful, worried people

- Acts of sabotage or theft [minor items like pens, paper, etc.]

- Lapses in ethical behaviors, morality and truthfulness

- Absence of leaders who are or feel empowered to act

Excellent leaders seek ways to maximize, expand-upon and broaden the scope of involvement of their people's bodies, minds, spirits and souls - nurture your people and they'll nourish your prosperity.

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Human Capital Asset Enrichment Strategy 5:

Inspire, Influence, Involve, Incite, Instigate, Incentivize, Include, Incorporate, Increase, Incubate, Inculcate, Indemnify, Induce Them to Enrich Their Capital Assets!

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Leaders are "In-" it all for the long haul - leaders always "In-"vest their energies "In-"to the growth and enrichment of their people.

You should attempt to follow this strategy with all the zeal, enthusiasm and love that you can muster - when you do, you will discover that literal chest of treasures which normally lies hidden deep "In-"side your people.

You'll discover that there are numerous opportunities "In-" the resources, attributes, potential impacts and assets of human beings for you to "In-"geniously, "In-"variably "In-"veigle and demonstrate your care and concern for your people's welfare and advancement.

It's "In-" your best interests to work exclusively and fully "In-"volve yourself "In-" the critical activities of coaching, mentoring, counseling, guiding, challenging, educating, "In-"spiring and empowering your people "In-" all that they do.

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Whether you are called a leader or think of yourself as just a follower you can enrich the human capital assets of the people within your operating circle.

If you work at creating or organizing knowledge, performing customer or supplier services or supervising the activities of people, you too can apply the lessons you have learned in this article.

Now that you have seen the strategies of human capital appreciation, I would suggest you follow these guidelines:

First, experiment with them in your own activities;

Next, try these strategies on your friends, families and associates at work;

Finally, master these techniques and make our world a precious treasure by enriching the space around you and your colleagues, today.

Jesus Christ wisely pointed out the easiest way to gauge a person's performance - he said: "You shall know them by their fruits!"

I strongly suggest you use this enrichment strategy and transform your knowledge into productive actions which express your vision and become a glorious reality in your own career.

Your boss doesn't have to appoint you to a position of leadership. Follow the sage advice of that famous advertisement which urges us to: "Just Do It!"

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