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"discretionary effort" is a phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to effort that is voluntarily given beyond an individual's normal performance level. For example, "Sally has made a lot of discretionary effort to improve her team's results."
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Personal Engagement — catalyzed individual discretionary effort.
That's what researchers call discretionary effort.
It creates trust, confidence and discretionary effort, just at the point when it is needed.
I am constantly struck by the amount of discretionary effort and resilience within the NHS.
And this unlocking of discretionary effort, you can't force that out.
Perhaps most significantly, extended collaboration requires high levels of discretionary effort.
Although discretionary effort isn't endless, managers with low emotional intelligence will have much less to draw on.
Changes in human behavior can only be sustained through discretionary effort, where organization members are adopting new behaviors because they want to.
We believe that one of the ways managers can tap into this discretionary effort is the practice of service-based leadership.
Their working definitions range from the simple ("discretionary effort") to the mind-bending ("complex nomological network encompassing trait, state, and behavioral constructs").
One in four employees used to report giving work an extra oomph — something Gartner calls "discretionary effort". Now, it's closer to one in six.
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