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October 2016 • The PCB Design Magazine 43 71% of the respondents feel quite empowered to make decisions, plus another almost 24% felt empowered at least some of the time. Perhaps we should have asked for positions in the com- pany; hopefully, higher level employees will have more decision-making authority. More good news—no one said "never." QUESTION 6: How does your leader motivate you in your job? This was an open-ended question and we asked for three responses. Keeping in mind that the goal is happy employees… While many different words were used, sev- eral themes emerged. The most frequently used words were support, compliments, recognition, accountability, trust and sense of involvement. Others were empowerment, feedback and new challenges, with the very occasional mention of money or compensation (though compensa- tion could mean other things also). Perhaps we should have followed this with a question as to position within the company but we do believe we received a representative cross-section in the responses. And we also believe that level in a company really has little to do with what truly motivates individ- uals. QUESTION 7: Does your company invest in leadership training? Happily, over 50% of respondents answered yes, while 31% said no, and some 17% were not sure. We asked what type and how often but the answers were rather vague for the most part. Which leaves no doubt that there is plenty of room for improvement, even at those compa- nies that offer training. LEADERSHIP AND...YOU