If Your Employees Are Squabbling, Your Company's Probably Standing Still In the same way that a bicycle is wobbly when it's standing still and becomes more stable the faster you pedal, the same is true with personnel issues at work. It's when the organization is standing still that people start to squabble.
Updated Wed May 23, 2012
The 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making With Work Relationships Many people are tapped for leadership positions because of their strong individual skills and knowledge. Yet their past experience of being “the smartest person in the room” can often keep them from developing the ability to draw out the best from others.
Updated Mon Apr 23, 2012
You Don’t Agree With Me? Good! Everyone enjoys working with others who see the world the same way that they do. But there is a long-lasting cost associated with this approach that catches even seasoned professionals off guard.
Updated Tue Mar 27, 2012
Collaboration Takes Work, And Starts At The Top Collaboration is great when it happens. But guess what? It’s not a natural state. It is a highly evolved way of relating. Fear, frustration, friction, and even political mayhem are more likely to be what happens when people come together naturally. In organizations where people work cooperatively and selflessly, it's usually through a specific directive of leaders.
Updated Thu Feb 23, 2012
To Be A Better Leader, Learn How To Referee Work Relationships When you are able to put on the striped black-and-white referee shirt and mediate conflict--when you take responsibility for fostering cooperation, collaboration, and collegiality between coworkers--you've taken a large step toward becoming a more productive and valuable leader.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
Want To Be Happy At Work? Learn How To Set Boundaries What would happen if you drew boundaries around what you would do--and would not do--at work? One of the things we’ve found in working with people at hundreds of organizations is that employees who are the happiest and most productive are those who have the capacity to set boundaries.
Updated Wed Dec 21, 2011
Helping Your Employees Find Their "Flow" We all know the saying "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." It’s sound advice--but it’s also dangerous unless you step back to see what impact it might have on the busy person’s work experience, lest managers end up punishing their most productive people.
Updated Tue Nov 22, 2011
Don’t Let Work Relationships Become Emotional Minefields The extent to which someone perceives he or she has a supportive relationship with a manager is one of 12 factors that lead to intentions to perform at a higher level. If some of your reporting relationships aren’t what they should be, here's a roadmap to creating the type of working relationships that meet the needs of employees, leaders, and the organization as a whole.
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
Don’t Lose Your Best People Because Of A Poor Growth Strategy Growth comes to those who most deserve it. So solve problems and do a great job in your present role first. Bellyaching that you want growth opportunities at the same time you are performing in a substandard fashion is not going to work.
Updated Thu Sep 22, 2011
The Just-Right Approach To Social Media And Transparency, And What It Says About Your Company Your company's approach to social media is generally also indicative of your overall approach to trust and transparency and relative comfort with sharing information. Your willingness to share information, and allow others to do the same, says a lot about you. Do you want to be perceived as secretive and controlling, or as trusting and open?
Updated Mon Aug 22, 2011
Do Your People Really Know What You Expect From Them? When you first employ people, relationships start off very clear. Both you and the new employees have a clear sense of what their contractual duties are and what they are being paid for.
Updated Mon Jul 18, 2011
Managers: Set People Free To Promote Growth And Get Results People want the ability to freely excel at the job they have been hired to do. The most important things employees are looking for now are the resources, tools, and means to work independently and to show their managers how competent they are.
Updated Fri Jun 17, 2011
Feedback Usually Says More About The Giver Than The Receiver Providing someone with feedback about their performance is stressful. That's why most managers prepare for it carefully by scheduling time, gathering examples, and rehearsing how to present the information in a non-threatening way.
Updated Tue May 17, 2011
The Role Money Plays in Engaging Employees If you pay people more money, will they be happier? Possibly, but it really depends on what the money represents to each person.
Updated Fri Apr 15, 2011
Maintain a Startup Attitude for a Passionate Office Managing and dealing with all the complexities people bring to work is a big challenge for today's leaders. That's because each individual's perception of their environment directly impacts their work for your company.
Updated Fri Mar 11, 2011
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