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I recently spoke with someone who made a very telling statement: "Management has the hardest role within an organization." It was an interesting observation. It's usually said that the high-level, C-suites have the toughest job, as they are steering the ship. In retrospect, those in managerial levels are tasked with ensuring the engine is running, …
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The job of a leader is to keep workflow processes moving so that organizational goals are achieved. But an important function of this role is to nurture the people who perform this week. A challenge becomes keeping these workers motivated as the week moves on to the end of that week: Monday brings a high; …
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Have you ever heard of Rate My Professor? It's an online site where students can check out feedback and ratings of professors, mainly to see if they want to take their class or not. While it's a very subjective site, with feedback being in the eye of the beholder, it has merit. In an organization, …
Goals are a daily fact of life, both personally and professionally. Ensuring that goals are given well and then understood will lead to higher productivity and engagement of them. How can you, as a manager, know that you were clear when conveying them? employees get down to business and work easily employees are happily doing …
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I came across a quote today that gave pause: "A bad manager can take a good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation." (author unknown) Bad managers, unfortunately, exist in all industries and at all levels. What happens that someone becomes bad at leading people, …
Empowerment is a strong word; it means to give another the ability to make their own decisions, to work on their own as they see fit, and all without input or control. Their is giving empowerment to others as well as of the self. Both are very impactful in the workplace. When workers feel empowered, …
We all want to be happy; however, many struggle with maintaining this state. No truer is this statement than in the workplace where many drudge along and don't seem to find any positives in their work environment. Workers want to go to an organization that is relaxed, fun, open, i.e happy. They don't want to …
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If you've been following the news (or my blog), you've no undoubtedly been seeing that leaders want workers who possess specific job skills, and that is what hiring is all about these days. But, I think the important skills get overlooked, particularly the soft - or people- skills; you can possess great technical skills but …
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Yesterday, I wrote about the importance of career pathing and how it helps with employee engagement, and as a strategy in succession planning. It's the way to identify high potentials and filling leadership positions that open up as Baby Boomers leave the organization. But, I also mentioned that not everyone wants to move up the …
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The question of the day: is it a wise decision for a manager to block, or prevent, a worker from making a job move within the organization? This can be answered from different perspectives, both pro and con. But the real question is, what is the long-term effect this will have on the worker in …
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