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	<title> &#187; social loafing</title>
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		<title>Solutions to the Social Loafing Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://showaltergroup.com/blog/2010/03/05/solutions-to-the-social-loafing-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Showalter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://showaltergroup.com/blog/2009/12/01/social-loafing/">In a previous post</a>, I talked about social loafing. Now I'm going to talk about how we change the social loafing dynamic.

<strong>Identify Contributions</strong>

Identify team member contributions. What have coalition members done to advance the cause? Be specific, and enumerate contributions that you want duplicated. Are the contributions distributed to the coalition members or posted on an easily accessible Web site?

What about your faithful PAC recruiters? What about your PAC board members who help answer tough PAC questions or find colleagues to help recruit others? Where are
their achievements noted?

Ditto for your grassroots team leaders. How many new members have they recruited during the last quarter? Who consistently responds to your calls to action?

Anyone who has worked in sales knows that...]]></description>
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		<title>Social Loafing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Showalter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all been on a team where 20 percent of the team members do 80 percent of the work - a few board members recruit for the PAC, a couple of organizations in your coalition make the effort to mobilize their members on an important issue, or one member of your GR staff reviews and edits the department’s Web site.

I grew up on a farm, and there are great lessons from the farm. A German agricultural engineer named Max Ringelmann studied farm labor efficiency and found that productivity decreases in large work groups (for me, that meant a work group of two, as my brother did most of the hard labor—and yes, I was the social loafer). Fifty years later,...]]></description>
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