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Grow Your Leadership Library with These "Friends of Leadology" Book Recommendations
Leadership Skills, New Managers Carrie Skowronski Leadership Skills, New Managers Carrie Skowronski

Grow Your Leadership Library with These "Friends of Leadology" Book Recommendations

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide valuable resources for leaders of all kinds, we've compiled a list of book recommendations from the "Friends of Leadology" network. These books cover a range of topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and personal growth - all of which are essential components of effective leadership development.

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3 Ways Managers Can ShoW Gratitude to Their Teams on Employee Appreciation Day
Leadership Skills, New Managers Carrie Skowronski Leadership Skills, New Managers Carrie Skowronski

3 Ways Managers Can ShoW Gratitude to Their Teams on Employee Appreciation Day

With Employee Appreciation Day on March 1 this year, it's time for managers to think about how to recognize their team's hard work and dedication. But how can managers make the most out of Employee Appreciation Day and ensure their team feels valued and recognized? In this article, we'll explore three impactful ways managers can show appreciation and recognition to their teams, fostering a culture of recognition and engagement in the workplace

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Help Employees Find Happiness at Work
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

Help Employees Find Happiness at Work

Finding happiness at work has been a struggle for many of our readers. According to recent studies, new employees are experiencing lower levels of engagement and inclusion than ever before. If you’ve been feeling a bit disconnected at work lately, you're not alone.

In this article, Team Leadology breaks down what it means to be happy at work and how you can spot the employees who need a little help finding it! Read on to learn our simple solutions and take away an actionable strategy that actually works.

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Leadology’s Forbes features that will help you improve manager effectiveness at your company
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

Leadology’s Forbes features that will help you improve manager effectiveness at your company

Over the past decade, we've helped countless clients to reduce suffering at work and increase job satisfaction. Through our Leadology newsletter and blog, we've shared the insights and tools that can make a real difference in your professional and personal life. Now, we’re sharing our best advice as recently picked up by Forbes!

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How to Create Better Boundaries Around the Holidays
Dare to Lead Carrie Skowronski Dare to Lead Carrie Skowronski

How to Create Better Boundaries Around the Holidays

According to a 2021 study by telehealth provider Sesame, 3 in 5 Americans feel their mental health is negatively impacted by the holidays, with 60% reporting an increase in anxiety and 52% feeling an increase in depression compared to the holiday season before.

As staggering as these statistics are, it’s always helpful to remember that things don’t have to shake out this way every single December, especially once we’re equipped with the proper tools that allow us to establish, communicate, and enforce clear boundaries in our personal and professional lives.

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3 Pitfalls You Should Avoid in the Workplace: Manager Edition
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

3 Pitfalls You Should Avoid in the Workplace: Manager Edition

Before we dive into the 3 pitfalls you or your managers might be making and should avoid in the workplace, let’s discuss how to recognize whether managers are falling into these habits and why that’s a problem. 

We’re hearing managers express that they are shying away from tough conversations, canceling meetings to give back time to their teams, and taking on more in an effort to help manage their employees' workload. These are only a few of the many examples that our managers are currently dealing with on a daily basis.

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How to Build a Team of Self-Reliant Superstars
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

How to Build a Team of Self-Reliant Superstars

You’ve probably already seen these kinds of employees in action within your own organization–– they’re efficient, proactive, and easy to work with. They’re no stranger to taking initiative and owning their part, especially due to their solution-focused mindset.

It’s important to remember that while many employees can bring these qualities to their role from the very start, they can also be encouraged and fostered among teams with the help of workplace leadership.

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Strategies to Avoid Burnout and Support Your Employees
Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski

Strategies to Avoid Burnout and Support Your Employees

In our experience as workplace leaders, recognizing our roles in both avoiding burnout in our employees and supporting them when it happens is an important reminder of the kind of impact we can have on our organizations at large. At times, the meaningful parts of the manager experience can feel overshadowed by overwhelming workloads or packed schedules, but by remembering that we play an integral role in cultivating wellbeing and engagement among our team members, we feel charged to support them in the fight against the phenomenon at every turn.

In this next article on burnout, we’re aiming to equip you with our anti-burnout strategies and best practices for supporting employees that can make the ongoing effort a rewarding one!

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Resolving Burnout in the Workplace through Strengths
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

Resolving Burnout in the Workplace through Strengths

When in full effect, the challenges of burnout in the workplace may seem insurmountable. But research-backed strategies advise us to return to the basics of strengths-work to weed it out of our organizations. Managers from across the globe are putting this approach into action within our premier leadership development program Activate, which is engaging networks of workplace leaders in purposeful conversations and equipping them with the resources needed to reduce workplace burnout on a mass scale.

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Understanding the *Real* Causes and Effects of Burnout
Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski

Understanding the *Real* Causes and Effects of Burnout

Level with us… how often do high levels of stress at work make you feel like you’re not contributing to your team or organization in meaningful ways? Maybe you’re going through the motions, feeling like you’re perpetually stuck on a hamster wheel when it comes to your work. We may be able to easily define burnout on paper, but when we’re in the thick of its symptoms, it can be much more difficult to remedy.

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Is This the Key to Improving Mental Health in the Workplace?
Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski

Is This the Key to Improving Mental Health in the Workplace?

Across the globe, a growing number of companies are reporting rising levels of burnout and mental health issues in the workplace, despite taking intentional steps to provide mental health resources and support. While these offerings are incredibly important when it comes to supporting employee wellbeing, they don’t always address the root of the issue– and in some cases, the issue lies with lackluster management.

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What to Do if the Summer Slump Hinders Productivity at Work
Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski

What to Do if the Summer Slump Hinders Productivity at Work

Let’s face it– sometimes, we all get a major case of the “f*ck its” during the summer slump, which results in reduced productivity at work. Luckily for you, we all experience this at one point or another, and as always, Leadology is here with some tactical tips that everyone can employ to stop the summer slump from plummeting their– or their team’s– productivity in the workplace.

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How to Foster a Culture of Holistic Wellbeing In Your Organization
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

How to Foster a Culture of Holistic Wellbeing In Your Organization

When our employees' wellbeing suffers, so does the organization at large. While we can imagine what this looks like in the workplace on a practical level, do we understand the true cost of poor wellbeing? Gallup states when compounded over time, burnout has led to a startling $322 billion of turnover and lost productivity costs globally. In this article, Team Leadology breaks down what a culture of wellbeing looks like in the workplace, and how to approach that in your organization.

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How This Statistic on Job Hopping Will Make Professional Development a Priority in Your Company
Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski Workplace Strategies Carrie Skowronski

How This Statistic on Job Hopping Will Make Professional Development a Priority in Your Company

New year, new career? According to Monster.com, job hopping potential in 2023 has given employees cause to start searching for higher pay, less toxicity in the workplace, and growth opportunities. In this article, Leadology leans into professional development and workplace training to help retain those superstar employees.

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Managing Employees with Anxiety: Using Radical Candor to Overcome Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
Team Management Carrie Skowronski Team Management Carrie Skowronski

Managing Employees with Anxiety: Using Radical Candor to Overcome Difficult Conversations in the Workplace

If you or someone you know has anxiety, you probably already know that pursuing a straightforward answer to the question of best to manage employees who are open about their own anxiety is tricky. As workplace leaders, it’s vital that we remember that while we’re not mental health experts, we do have the ability to navigate these kinds of difficult conversations with compassion, unique insight, and– radical candor.

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Make 2023 a Game-Changing Year for Leadership by Using the 70/20/10 Rule
Leadership Skills Carrie Skowronski Leadership Skills Carrie Skowronski

Make 2023 a Game-Changing Year for Leadership by Using the 70/20/10 Rule

Like many other annual landmarks– work anniversaries, birthdays, and other special dates– the new year gives us all an opportunity to pause and take a hard look at our personal and professional progress. We admit, in the midst of the year, it can be quite difficult to take stock of what’s working, what’s not, and what to do with all of that information as it relates to leadership. But as managers, it’s vital that we approach each and every year with a distinct approach to not only better ourselves, but our teams, organizations, and industries as a result. The 70/20/10 rule provides a great opportunity for workplace leaders to hone in on their employee development.

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