Tools for High-Performing Teams
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Boost Employee Engagement by Helping Them Overcome Feelings of Being Overwhelmed
To say that 2020 led to increased stress and anxiety is perhaps the understatement of the decade. It introduced turmoil that rocked the world, the aftershocks of which we are still contending with. It has also taken a toll on employee engagement. The good news is that managers and decision-makers can take an active role […]
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Personal Development and Performance Management: The Connection You’re Not Making
Managing employee performance is critical to business success. However, that is a one-way view that often delivers lopsided results. When managers attempt to coach employees simply based on their value to the organization, it neglects a crucial fact – team members are more than just employees. They’re whole individuals. They have their own wants, likes, […]
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Drive Employee Feedback with the Right Questions
As a business leader, your goal is to build a thriving organization, just as much as it is to serve your customers or clients. In fact, without a healthy, growing company, it becomes impossible to achieve your mission of delivering the right products or services to your audience. In the quest to create that organization, […]
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How Leaders Can Support Their Managers in Our New Normal
Employees form the foundation of your organization. Without them, it’s impossible to do what you do. However, the individuals with the largest impact on employee experience and their ability to learn, grow, develop, and thrive, are your managers. In our new normal, managers find themselves faced with a range of new challenges that can be […]
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The Key to Manager Effectiveness: Self-Awareness
As a manager, you must be able to work with employees to improve their performance. One way to do that is through one-on-one meetings, but your effectiveness here may be hampered. If you lack self-awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses, it becomes impossible to provide guidance and help employees develop and become their best […]
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How to Build Mindful, Resilient Teams in a Changing World
To say that 2020 highlighted the need for more resilient teams is an understatement. As COVID-19 spread around the world, it brought with it anxiety, fear, instability, and dramatic changes to our very lifestyles. The mind’s natural tendency, when faced with situations like this, is to find a distraction and focus on it. That leads […]
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How to Create and Implement Continuous Performance Reviews
Managers have tried every strategy in the book to boost performance and motivate employees. When punitive efforts failed, they turned to ratings and rankings. The thinking was that low ratings would shame employees into performing better, or that low rankings would foster a sense of competition with other employees, increasing performance. Neither of those things […]
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Remote Work Policy: Designing for Success in the New Normal
At some point, we will stop saying “new normal”, but that time is not now. Too many organizations are still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. Too many leaders are still struggling to come to grips with the remote work world in which they now find themselves. The first step in coming to grips […]
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Six Tips to Transform Company Culture
What is culture when it comes to businesses? It is often hard to pin down, and if you were to ask 10 different executives, you would likely receive 10 different answers. Everyone knows that culture is critical to success, but we cannot seem to agree on what it is, much less how it affects a […]
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Tips and Tricks for Success with OKRs
Objectives and key results (OKRs) provide the foundation for business success. Still, setting appropriate OKRs can be more than a little challenging. When done correctly, they can drive performance, support engagement, empower employees, and focus teams on outcomes. However, when implemented incorrectly, organizations won’t see those benefits. It can cause damage to morale and engagement. […]
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Understanding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Their Impact on Business Success
To be successful, businesses must be able to manage and track performance. While there are many ways to do that, one of the most powerful models is objectives and key results (OKRs). Deceptively simple, it requires just four steps: Defining the objectives quarterly Implementing tools to measure progress toward objectives Communication with team members A […]
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How to Maximize the Value of Your One-on-Ones
Few performance management tools offer the value, traction, and transformative power of the humble one-on-one. Sure, they’re brief. They’re informal. They’re focused more on conversation than they are on structured teaching. However, for all that, the one-on-one is your real chance to foster true change in employees. Because of that, you must get it right. […]
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