Inspiration
Having a Difficult Conversation? Try being an Advocate.
Having difficult conversations are never easy. Managers feel just as uncomfortable giving the difficult feedback as the employee does getting it! How can we have a constructive dialogue that would bridge careers rather than frustrating walls of defensiveness? DeAnna offers the conversational inroads to achieving goals (yours and your team's).
Read MorePerformance Appraisals: What Matters Most – the Tool, the Evaluator, or the Employee?
Which component of the performance appraisal processes is vital to increase employee performance? As a Human Resource professional (creating and implementing appraisal systems), have you effectively supported your peers in the organization? Renata highlights three areas where you can improve the appraisal approach.
Read MorePerformance Reviews: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good
Facing difficulties writing your yearly self-review - a necessary duty for most employees? How do we use a flawed even subjective performance system to our advantage? Karen offers tips to help set up your review for a year-long success. Download our template matrix to write the self-review with your manager in mind, even build a mutually beneficial work relationship with your reviewer!
Read MoreBuild T.R.U.S.T to Create a Climate of Community
Concluding January's theme on Work Unit Climate, what have we learned about setting a conducive and productive stage for our group? One thing's for sure: technology is not a panacea. Allison elaborates how we as leaders, can create (and drive) a work climate of collaboration and community - by building T.R.U.S.T and accessibility (from the individual to group to organization-wide)!
Read MoreWalk a Mile in My Shoes (to build effective relationships)
How often does your customer-facing team(s) and technologies team(s) standoff over disagreements? As leaders, how do we walk a mile with not one but both camps? Read about Brian's experiences turning contentious relations (between the teams,) into collaborative respect amongst his stakeholders, shorter development timelines plus resource alignments!
Read More(A Journey of) Transforming Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones
Would you dare risk both career and reputation to inspire a culture of excellence in a work climate hamstrung by regulations, whose service inspires the customers' dread? Read how Carole built empathy between her team and their customers, developed her staff, and leveraged the team's internal experiences to ultimately receive the distinction of joining an elite group of 200 organizations!
Read MoreClimate (and) Change: wuc = e3
What exactly is work unit climate (wuc)? Find out how we can build one conducive for team members to perform and stay motivated? Throughout this year, we will delve into 12 dimensions that impact change, starting with how the climate of your work unit impact you and your colleagues.
Read MoreHow to Change ‘It’: Write It. Schedule It. Do It.
It's time for new year resolutions! That said, how often have you succeeded in accomplishing previous objectives? Are you planning the goal too far into the future (maybe a little detached from your present situation)? Achieve your goals with these 3 steps to bridge where you are today and where you want to be!
Read MoreGuides, Grace and Rest
A significant number of transports (from ships to automobiles to planes) rely on Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to navigate. In layman's explanation, GPS relies on the triangulation of a moving object using three satellites. We too have our GPS. Read on to find out what it is in our Christmas reflection!
Read MoreLeadership Lessons From LEGO
How many of us think of large-scale change as daunting efforts with missing pieces, risks, and unforeseen consequences? Engagement leader - Ken Perlman thinks otherwise in these 5 leadership pointers, inspired by an innovative LEGO-filled weekend. Want to have fun or read the manual? Ken relates coaching a client through transformational change, to building a complex LEGO set with his daughters!
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