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A roundup of content and interviews dedicated to helping you awaken the leader within.
3 Ways Managers Can ShoW Gratitude to Their Teams on Employee Appreciation Day
With Employee Appreciation Day on March 1 this year, it's time for managers to think about how to recognize their team's hard work and dedication. But how can managers make the most out of Employee Appreciation Day and ensure their team feels valued and recognized? In this article, we'll explore three impactful ways managers can show appreciation and recognition to their teams, fostering a culture of recognition and engagement in the workplace
Don't Be a Feedback Scrooge this Holiday Season and Give the Gift of Feedback
The holiday season is a time for spreading joy and cheer. And what a better way to do that than by showing appreciation to your hard working team. Careful that the “busy-ness” of the season makes you forget about the importance of positive feedback. As a leader, it's crucial to remember that recognition is not just a once a year thing, but a year-round practice that fosters motivation and productivity. When you acknowledge the wins, improvements and resourcefulness of your employees, you create a culture of recognition.
Leadology’s Forbes features that will help you improve manager effectiveness at your company
Over the past decade, we've helped countless clients to reduce suffering at work and increase job satisfaction. Through our Leadology newsletter and blog, we've shared the insights and tools that can make a real difference in your professional and personal life. Now, we’re sharing our best advice as recently picked up by Forbes!
3 Pitfalls You Should Avoid in the Workplace: Manager Edition
Before we dive into the 3 pitfalls you or your managers might be making and should avoid in the workplace, let’s discuss how to recognize whether managers are falling into these habits and why that’s a problem.
We’re hearing managers express that they are shying away from tough conversations, canceling meetings to give back time to their teams, and taking on more in an effort to help manage their employees' workload. These are only a few of the many examples that our managers are currently dealing with on a daily basis.
Is This the Key to Improving Mental Health in the Workplace?
Across the globe, a growing number of companies are reporting rising levels of burnout and mental health issues in the workplace, despite taking intentional steps to provide mental health resources and support. While these offerings are incredibly important when it comes to supporting employee wellbeing, they don’t always address the root of the issue– and in some cases, the issue lies with lackluster management.
3 Powerful Feedback Conversation Tips to Maintain Supportive Relationships in the Workplace
Did you know that one of my absolute favorite parts of our Activate program is getting to actually practice the concepts we teach? While it’s great to have management insight in your back pocket, it’s a completely different experience to actually put it to work.
Be Strategic: A Bagel vs. Croissant Approach to Professional Networking
In a constantly shifting job market, finding a strategic approach to professional networking is more important than ever before. Though historically, networking has primarily been viewed as a means to be better positioned to advance in our own careers, we’re able to find more lasting meaning through networking when we consider it as a way to build better professional relationships. After all, it allows us the opportunity to share knowledge, experience, and insight with others– all things that were probably gifted to us by someone else in our network at some point.
How to Keep a Growth Mindset about Negative Feedback in the Workplace
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that workplace leaders are human too, and not immune to giving teams badly communicated– or altogether negative– feedback. If you’ve ever found yourself in a position where you’re receiving poor feedback or feedback that you disagree with, it’s important to keep a growth mindset and ask yourself: what can I still learn from this?
How to Run Effective Meetings in a Post-Pandemic World
Running an effective meeting is worthwhile, and there’s no doubt that running a worthwhile meeting has always been something of an art. But of course, now more than ever (a phrase that seems perpetually relevant), navigating hybrid work meetings has made us even more intentional– and become all the more important.
How to Build a “Growth Mindset” Through Experimentation
Are you ready to embrace a growth mindset in your leadership role? Offices that were beginning to shift to hybrid or fully in-person work are now delaying their return plans. As frustrating as this setback may be (trust me! I feel you), I still think this time can serve as an incredible opportunity to reimagine our work lives. Whether you’re a new manager facing hybrid work challenges, or a veteran hybrid work leader, you’ll benefit from Leadology’s leadership coaching principles.
How to have effective meetings, so you can stop canceling your 1:1s
In theory, 1:1 meetings are a chance for managers and employees to have an open, honest conversation about how they’re feeling, and how they view their positions within the company. If used correctly 1:1s can be one of the single most important tools a manager has at their disposal to help boost the performance and morale of their team.
Let's Rumble
According to Brown, “The word rumble is more than just a weird West Side Story reference, it’s a way to say, “Let’s have a real conversation, even if it’s tough.”
Receiving Feedback: The *Most Important* Skill I’m Never Asked to Train
If you’ve been around the Leadology circle for any length of time, you already know that we frequently cover the importance of giving frequent, on-going, and honest feedback. And, although we already have numerous articles covering every angle of recognition, feedback, and connecting 1-on-1, in this article we’re going to talk about how to make it as easy as possible for those around you to give you the gift of feedback.
- 2 plus 2 conversation
- High-Impact Virtual Experiences
- Personal Development
- ask for help
- become a better manager
- boundaries
- brene brown
- buddy to boss
- burnout
- coaching
- dare to lead
- delegation
- difficult conversations
- eLearning
- empathy
- employee development
- employee experience
- feedback
- growth mindset
- hybrid workplace
- leadership tips
- learning and development
- management skills
- manager success roadmap
- meetings
- new managers
- office routine
- performance review
- productivity hacks
- professional development
- promotions
- purpose at work
- purpose-driven leadership
- recognition
- return to office
- self-efficacy
- social learning theory
- strengths-based development
- team leadership
- team management
- time management
- toxic coworkers
- workplace strategies
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