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How to Handle Office Gossip
Let’s talk about gossip: How many times in the office have you gotten a sinking feeling after hearing a conversation start with, “Did you hear that so-and-so did X, Y, and Z”?
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?
Ideas to Keep Employees and Remote Teams Motivated
Whether your company is fully back in office, or still embracing the hybrid workplace, there is always a challenge to keep team members connected and working productively. When our teams are working from home, one of the top challenges I’m hearing from managers right now is: How can we get creative about keeping employees and remote teams motivated?
Why Asking For Help Makes You a Better Manager
If you’ve ever felt pressure to know and do everything in the office, this is for you! Better yet, let’s rephrase this and ask instead, when have you felt empowered to ask for help?
In our time working with leaders from a variety of backgrounds, we’ve found that so many suffer silently through heavy workloads, people management, and other leadership challenges out of a desire to be self-sufficient.
5 Qualities You Can Learn to Become a Great Leader
Of course, everyone wants to be a great leader or manager for their team, but what does that even mean? In order to truly stand out from the crowd, fantastic managers must possess particular leadership skills– skills that enable them to propel their careers and, with it, their team’s potential…
Workplace Strategies to Overcome Autumn Anxiety and Other SADs
When September rolls around (especially for us Northeasterners), you may have some mixed emotions. On the one hand, there’s the gradual changing of leaves from lush greens to a collage of reds, yellows, and oranges. Not to mention apple picking and cozy sweaters. But this time can also signal a “back-to-the-grindstone” mentality that may bring up feelings of personal and professional anxiety.
Why You Don’t Need to be a Natural-Born Leader to Succeed as One
Did you know that only 10% of people intrinsically have what it takes to be a manager? This Gallup statistic speaks volumes on how important it is for consistent reflection, and the dedicated investment in professional development necessary for most on a managerial track. In fact, the simplest and most impactful start to becoming the best manager you can be is cultivating a …
4 Best Practices for Delegation, So You Can Stop Micromanaging Your Team
If micromanaging your team is something you’d like to overcome in 2023, then learning best practices for delegation is at the forefront of your learning and development. Oftentimes, in an attempt to not give employees more than they can handle or take personal responsibility for meeting important goals, managers too often bite off more than they can chew. This “do-it-myself” mentality is not only impossible for even the hardest hustling managers, but it strips away an important opportunity for the overall professional development of your team.
Unproductive Employees? Low Retention? How Recognition Reduces Turnover
In talking so much about the benefits of meaningful and effective recognition lately, it’s important to remember that this is more than just a “feel good” tool– but a strategy to ultimately retain employees.
Perhaps the greatest urgency of integrating recognition into your retention strategy is the fact that…
Employee Burnout and How to Prevent It
When discussing employee burnout, it’s crucial to also consider how your work makes you feel: Energized? Exhausted? A little bit of both?
We’ve been talking a lot about the power of effective recognition on the blog, and we’re interested in the concept that recognition brings the “human" element back to work by setting the tone for the entire employee experience. When organizations get recognition right…
Employee Experience: 3 Tips for Offering Equitable Recognition to Your Team
Recently, we’ve been delving into the importance of recognition as a part of personal, team, and company culture. When it comes to uplifting one’s team in sustainable ways, managers must be aware of this fairness component to recognition and take actionable steps to offer it in an equitable manner.
Employee Recognition and Appreciation Tips That Actually Work
If you’re trying to design, shift, or scale your company culture, recognition and appreciation must be a part of your strategy. Like most new things, this can begin with one step, one conversation at a time.
Research from Gallup tells us that only about a third of employees strongly agree the recognition they receive is...
Discover Your Purpose at Work by Leveraging Your Strengths
With the amount of people talking about it, finding purpose at work has become quite a hot topic. Yes, it’s commonly believed to be important, but how do managers actually go about discovering or creating purpose? What practical steps can we take to reconnect to our larger meaning?
How to Create an Intentional Environment for Your Return to the Office
As we return to the office in this post-pandemic era, I’ve seen many companies renovate their offices in hopes of boosting morale. While I love a home makeover as much as the next HGTV lover, a new coat of paint is not enough to make a physical return to the office feel like an exciting “new normal” for teams. Creating an intentional environment involves more than just the aesthetics.
What Does it Take to Be a Happy Leader?
Becoming a happy leader should be at the forefront of every manager’s methodology. As Andrew Carnegie once famously stated, “There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Great leaders are often known as those who can facilitate effective movement inside of an organization. But what about being a leader who is both effective and spreads happiness like confetti? Now that’s the tricky part.
4 Productivity Hacks for Successful Managers to Boost Time Management
Time management is a skill worth learning for all employees, managers, and c-level executives. Answer honestly: have you ever looked up from your screen and realized you worked longer than you planned?
While it can be aspirational to aim for work-life balance, actually achieving it can feel a bit more elusive…
3 Things Successful Managers Do On Weekends to Avoid Burnout
As the manager and leader in your workplace, staying “caught up” on work can often feel like something of a pipe dream and unfortunately, leads to burnout. Because this is such a widely shared sentiment, we’ve unfortunately seen so many managers treat the weekend as a time to catch up or get ahead on work.
What to Do if You’ve Been Recently Promoted to Manager
Have you recently been promoted to manager? At Leadology, we promise to always tell it like it is… and we’re not going to lie, transitioning from buddy to boss is not easy. There are many factors that contribute to the lack of ease surrounding any promotion, including the reality that suddenly the way you’re viewed by your closest work friends changes when you step into your new role. The good news? Being viewed differently doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Today we’re sharing our top tips for a smooth transition from buddy to boss.
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.
Wait… There’s a Wrong Way to Display Empathy?!
If you’ve been a regular reader (or part of our Instagram community), you’ve heard us talk about empathy before. However, what’s becoming increasingly clear through the conversations we’ve had with you, our clients, and what we’ve witnessed through out the pandemic… is that there is indeed a wrong way to display empathy.
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