Find HR tips and best practices for managing employees on my blog to help your workplace be happier, healthier, and more productive.
This free webinar offers 12 tips to make 1-on-1s the most productive time in your week. One of the things my clients thank me for most are my tips for productive 1-on-1s. Now you can have these tips for free! Please join me for a free webinar entitled: Supercharge Your One-on-Ones: 12 Tips to make 1:1s the most productive time in your week. When managers first come to me for coaching, many of them think these weekly meetings are a…
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Psychological safety helps you catch and correct mistakes instead of retaliating, blaming, or shaming. It is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Psychological safety is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or blamed in any way for mistakes on the job. It describes an office culture where people accept that mistakes will be made, and that the best way to deal with them is to work together to catch…
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Trust is the glue that sticks teams together. Without the advantage of trust, the smartest, most experienced team will become distracted by conflict and division. You need it to inspire your team, find consensus, and bring out everyone’s best efforts. Trust helps teams overcome the divisions, egos, and disagreements that splinter teams and distract from performance. Trust is a Virtuous Cycle The advantage of trust is that it allows people to calm down and focus on common goals. That’s the…
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Positive feedback leads to better results and happier employees. Gallup, the polling agency that has been focusing on employee engagement, is just out with new numbers and a white paper on “Why Employees are Fed Up with Feedback.” Their polling reveals how negative feedback demotivates managers and employees alike in overwhelming numbers. As Gallup reports, only 14% of managers feel good about their ability to give feedback. And a whopping 89.1% of employees who get negative feedback report feeling not…
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Yesterday Time released a chart showing the median salary of the top paying companies by state. Drilling down on the data, I noticed an interesting correlation. 33 out of 49 top-paying companies in the US have fewer than 60 employees. This has a few implications. First, as the median salary goes down, more companies have high numbers of employees. So apparently, some people are doing less with more people. Second, I want to note that there was one company that…
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