Tools for High-Performing Teams
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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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How to Solicit Feedback from Employees: A Manager Self-Improvement Guide
Once, feedback was only seen as offering value when it flowed downward. Today, we understand the folly of that idea. To be successful, managers need coaching just as much as employees. However, it can be challenging for managers to ask for feedback. Whom do you ask? What do you ask them for? What questions should […]
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Emotion Identification: A Key Skill Required for Successful Coaches
For managers to become coaches and move your performance management into the 21st century, they need to master a wide range of skills. They need to become adept at checking in with employees regularly. They need to move away from the carrot/stick mindset and towards one of innovation and communication. However, while those are important […]
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How to Keep Your Teams Healthy in a Remote World
When we talk about health these days, COVID-19 is the assumed focus of the discussion. Sadly, that means many other issues go undiscussed and unnoticed. A critical part of modern performance management is ensuring that your people are healthy enough to perform their duties in the first place. That means doing more than just providing […]
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How to Lead without Authority: The Science of Co-Elevation
The workplace is usually built on a sense of authority – a defined hierarchy in which authority runs downhill. Each executive was king or queen of their own little fiefdom, but owed fealty to the person above, culminating with the CEO. While that might have been business as usual, 20 years of research has shown […]
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How to Transform Managers into More Effective Coaches
Once upon a time, managers were bosses. They were expected to lead by enforcement or coercion (the old carrot and stick management method). Today, things are changing for the better. Managers are transitioning from authoritarian models of leadership to coaches that offer support and help. Of course, that transition isn’t always easy, and it can […]
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Remote Work: Tips to Build Better Connections
Remote work can offer a lot of benefits for both employees and employers. However, it can also be incredibly challenging. It blends work and personal time in often uncomfortable ways. It means that family time can bleed into work time, and vice-versa. It also becomes easy for team members to disconnect from one another, from […]
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Increasing the Value of Feedback: Why Employees Should Ask for It
Chances are good that your managers strive to provide at least some feedback to the employees they manage. It might come in the form of annual performance reviews, or maybe you’ve caught up with the evolution of performance management and are using regular check-ins and smaller conversations to help guide employees. Feedback offers a strong […]
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People Management Simplified: Tips to Create a More Successful Operation
Performance management would be better termed “people management”. That’s because you’re not managing performance in a purely mechanical sense. These aren’t machines we’re talking about that provide a simple output based on a known input. Human beings don’t work that way. We’re messy. We’re complex. We’re convoluted. People management is what you’re really doing, and […]
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A Culture of People First: How to Shift Your View from Employees to People
Employees are people. That seems pretty obvious. However, too many organizations (and individual managers and leaders within those organizations) see them as somewhat less. They’re employees. Business assets. Potential liabilities. This has a dehumanizing effect that carries over into the workplace. It becomes easy to see your team members as a resource to be managed, […]
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Remote Team Tips: Improving Productivity and Keeping Them Connected
Remote work has had an incredible impact on organizations large and small. As most of us continue to work from home, those impacts are only going to grow. While some of those might be positive – more time with the family, for instance – others are not so beneficial. You might find that your team […]
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Improving Performance by Creating a Sense of Belonging in the Workplace
When do you perform at your personal best – when you’re in a strange place, surrounded by people who neither know nor like you? Or when you’re in a supportive, positive environment surrounded by those who earnestly want you to succeed, grow, and thrive? It’s a no-brainer – everyone performs better in a positive environment. […]
