With each interaction, leaders have an opportunity to give a GIFT to employees helpful feedback, advice, compliments, suggestions, lessons learned, etc. Take an inventory to determine your effectiveness.
Today’s challenges are often not solved with one right answer. Rather than problems to be solved, polarities are interdependent and must be managed. Companies who outperform their competition have learned how to supplement either/or thinking with both/and thinking.
In each organization there are, in reality, at least two cultures–one that we speak about and one that we don’t. Click below to learn more about which one is more powerful and what that means to your employees, as well as the organization overall.
We expect our teams to be agile and effective in solving problems, establishing strategy and making decisions. Leaders can help ensure that their teams are working “smart” by encouraging and facilitating in ways that help team members use their collective intelligence to adapt to changing situations.
It is easy to move away from a work-related task to get an immediate reward from responding to a ping, vibration, or ring. We get “hooked” on the stimuli which may lead to technology addiction and employee distraction. It is important for us to be aware of the messages our behavior sends to others.
These days, in our ever-connected world, it is often difficult to draw the line between personal and work time. Add to that, the number of employees who fail to use all of their vacation time is on the rise. What are leaders to do?