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How to Maximize the Last Four Months of the Year as a Manager
Level with us: does it feel like you blinked and it’s already September? As we begin considering Q4 and the rapid approach of the holiday season, Leadology is here with a few tips on how workplace leaders can use the remaining months to their advantage.
Though some of us are incredibly eager to get back into our routines this fall, this time of year can also instill a bit of panic and anxiety for those who may have started the year off with a lengthy list of goals that haven’t been checked off yet. No matter how you feel about 2023 coming to a close in the next four months, we’re here to remind you that it doesn’t have to be the start of the year to start fresh.
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!
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.
3 Tell-Tale Signs Your Employees Are Suffering From Burnout
According to the World Health Organization, burnout is characterized by three persisting symptoms: exhaustion, increased mental distance from one’s job, and reduced professional efficacy.
While we may pass these things off as fairly common, Gallup research states that, when left untreated, these symptoms have the potential to make severely burned-out workers 63% more likely to take a sick day, and 23% more likely to visit the emergency room.
The sheer prevalence of burnout in the workplace may actually be contributing to its inconspicuousness and, to some extent, normalization. But the truth of the matter is that burnout is an occupational phenomenon, not a medical condition–– meaning, at the end of the day, it can absolutely be prevented with the cultivation of personal work-life balance and the prioritization of wellbeing in company culture.
4 Must Read Books to Add to Your Reading List this Summer
With July just around the corner, we’re almost officially halfway through 2023. The beginning of Summer is an excellent marker to stop and reflect, both personally and professionally. For your own growth mindset development, here are 4 Leadology recommended books to add to your summer reading list.
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.
How to Create Learning and Development Opportunities through a Spring Clean of Your Career
As we move further into the year (how is it the end of May already?!), it's important to take a step back and evaluate how we're leveraging learning and development in our careers. Are we growing? Are we learning? Are we leveraging our strengths?
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.
Create Your Own, Personal Guide to Development and Success in 2023
Creating your own, personal guide to success is rooted in development. In order to be successful, it’s vital that we study success. At this point in the year, it’s pretty hard not to have our eyes set solely on what’s ahead; but at the same time, it’s incredibly important that before jumping into our intentions for 2023, we take a moment to remember and celebrate all of the lessons that this year brought us…
How HIVE Learning is Reshaping How We Train Today’s Leaders
For quite some time now, leaders within professional development communities have searched for the most efficient ways to train employees. Of course, while there is no single solution to this universal question– especially when trying to address it in remote work settings– this community has undergone new shifts and explored innovative trends over the course of the pandemic in order to find what works best for individuals and teams. An approach that we’re particularly enthusiastic to share with you is the power of HIVE learning.
Be Strategic: A Bagel vs. Croissant Approach to Professional Networking
In a constantly shifting job market, finding a strategic approach to professional networking is more important than ever before. Though historically, networking has primarily been viewed as a means to be better positioned to advance in our own careers, we’re able to find more lasting meaning through networking when we consider it as a way to build better professional relationships. After all, it allows us the opportunity to share knowledge, experience, and insight with others– all things that were probably gifted to us by someone else in our network at some point.
Ideas to Keep Employees and Remote Teams Motivated
Whether your company is fully back in office, or still embracing the hybrid workplace, there is always a challenge to keep team members connected and working productively. When our teams are working from home, one of the top challenges I’m hearing from managers right now is: How can we get creative about keeping employees and remote teams motivated?
Why You Don’t Need to be a Natural-Born Leader to Succeed as One
Did you know that only 10% of people intrinsically have what it takes to be a manager? This Gallup statistic speaks volumes on how important it is for consistent reflection, and the dedicated investment in professional development necessary for most on a managerial track. In fact, the simplest and most impactful start to becoming the best manager you can be is cultivating a …
Unproductive Employees? Low Retention? How Recognition Reduces Turnover
In talking so much about the benefits of meaningful and effective recognition lately, it’s important to remember that this is more than just a “feel good” tool– but a strategy to ultimately retain employees.
Perhaps the greatest urgency of integrating recognition into your retention strategy is the fact that…
Employee Experience: 3 Tips for Offering Equitable Recognition to Your Team
Recently, we’ve been delving into the importance of recognition as a part of personal, team, and company culture. When it comes to uplifting one’s team in sustainable ways, managers must be aware of this fairness component to recognition and take actionable steps to offer it in an equitable manner.
Employee Recognition and Appreciation Tips That Actually Work
If you’re trying to design, shift, or scale your company culture, recognition and appreciation must be a part of your strategy. Like most new things, this can begin with one step, one conversation at a time.
Research from Gallup tells us that only about a third of employees strongly agree the recognition they receive is...
Discover Your Purpose at Work by Leveraging Your Strengths
With the amount of people talking about it, finding purpose at work has become quite a hot topic. Yes, it’s commonly believed to be important, but how do managers actually go about discovering or creating purpose? What practical steps can we take to reconnect to our larger meaning?
How Investing My Energy Into My Own Strengths Replenishes Me
At the beginning of January my energy was low and I knew the fastest, most certain way to tap into new inspiration in my business and life was by digging deeper into my Strengths.
So, rather than jumping into the new year, I slowly walked.
It’s exactly what inspired me to relaunch our 21-Day Strengths-Challenge, which so many of you have participated in with me! I loved hearing your takeaways and how this Strengths sprint has been helping you not only in the short-term, but has really allowed you to envision what longer-term career success might look like for you.
I’m officially reinspired– and it’s all thanks to you and sharing your gifts with me!
How to Create Better Productivity in the Workplace
It doesn’t matter if you are working remotely or heading back into the office, we all would love to have better productivity in the workplace. As we are all heading back to work in one way or another, we have a chance to change the way things are done in order to make it a more productive and satisfying place to work.
6 Inspiring Email Newsletters for the Well-Read Leader
When selected carefully, the right newsletter has the potential to brighten up your inbox and deliver inspiration right when you need it most. From thought-provoking questions to providing moments of peace, these newsletters are all so interesting and valuable that you’ll want to stop what you’re doing and dive in - every time. I hope you’ll check them out and recommend your own favorites in response!
- 2 plus 2 conversation
- High-Impact Virtual Experiences
- Personal Development
- ask for help
- become a better manager
- boundaries
- brene brown
- buddy to boss
- burnout
- coaching
- communication
- dare to lead
- delegation
- difficult conversations
- eLearning
- empathy
- employee development
- employee experience
- feedback
- growth mindset
- hybrid workplace
- leadership tips
- learning and development
- management skills
- manager success roadmap
- meetings
- new managers
- office routine
- performance review
- productivity hacks
- professional development
- promotions
- purpose at work
- purpose-driven leadership
- recognition
- return to office
- self-efficacy
- social learning theory
- strengths-based development
- team leadership
- team management
- time management
- toxic coworkers
- workplace strategies
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