How many times has your phone chirped in a meeting? Maybe it’s a co-worker texting you about the presentation you’re both sitting through. It’s no big deal if you answer that co-worker, right?
Tag: managers
Managers: How to Stop the Gossip Chain
It’s easy for us to revert to our seventh-grade selves at work. When you and your team members engage in office gossip, you’re wallowing in negative energy. Here’s how to stop.
Is Your Management Style Driving Employees to Lie?
All too often in the corporate world, leaders are the victims of BS. Sometimes, employees feed their managers false information because they are under a deadline, says Lila MacLellan.
Are You Neglecting Relationship Excellence?
Are you guilty of focusing on task excellence and neglecting relationship excellence? Michael Stallard, co-founder and president of the Connection Culture Group, says this is a common management problem.
Have You Established a Culture for Your Project-Based Team?
You want to put your best people on your next team project. But, one of your engineers doesn’t work well with your marketing manager. What do you do?
Creating a Successful Accountability Culture
Accountability is one of the basic disciplines of doing business and increasing success. The benefits of creating a culture of accountability are quite evident, but sometimes you might find accountability to be elusive. Why does this happen?
How to Retain Employees During the War for Talent
As the chief engagement and brand officer at EHE, Joy Altimare knows how important it is to level-set or benchmark an individual’s health status. Here are the details she shared on a Manage Smarter podcast about how to benchmark a new manager’s status.
Does That Employee Dispute Boil Down to a Communication Problem?
We’d like to think that we’ve come a long way since employees settled their disputes with their fists. Most of us don’t have to put up with brawling in our workplaces, but employee disagreements are real.
Top Seven Ways Leaders Can Destroy Trust
Fostering trust is a key leadership development task for creating a winning culture within every team and a challenge that must be met.
Here’s Why Your Team Needs Agility Training
Is agility one of the buzz words zooming around your company these days? Everyone agrees they need to have it. Hardly anyone agrees on how to get it.
These Three Factors Drive Employee Engagement
Many of employee engagement tactics leaders implement are falling short. Let’s take a look at why this is happening.
Does Your Recognition System Need a Reboot?
You may have heard stories from your parents or grandparents about old-school recognition programs – something along the lines of receiving a gold watch and being shown the door after twenty years of stellar service. In today’s competitive environment, you need to do better.
