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Make 2025 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.
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.
3 Powerful Feedback Conversation Tips to Maintain Supportive Relationships in the Workplace
Did you know that one of my absolute favorite parts of our Activate program is getting to actually practice the concepts we teach? While it’s great to have management insight in your back pocket, it’s a completely different experience to actually put it to work.
Why Asking For Help Makes You a Better Manager
If you’ve ever felt pressure to know and do everything in the office, this is for you! Better yet, let’s rephrase this and ask instead, when have you felt empowered to ask for help?
In our time working with leaders from a variety of backgrounds, we’ve found that so many suffer silently through heavy workloads, people management, and other leadership challenges out of a desire to be self-sufficient.
5 Qualities You Can Learn to Become a Great Leader
Of course, everyone wants to be a great leader or manager for their team, but what does that even mean? In order to truly stand out from the crowd, fantastic managers must possess particular leadership skills– skills that enable them to propel their careers and, with it, their team’s potential…
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 …
4 Best Practices for Delegation, So You Can Stop Micromanaging Your Team
If micromanaging your team is something you’d like to overcome in 2023, then learning best practices for delegation is at the forefront of your learning and development. Oftentimes, in an attempt to not give employees more than they can handle or take personal responsibility for meeting important goals, managers too often bite off more than they can chew. This “do-it-myself” mentality is not only impossible for even the hardest hustling managers, but it strips away an important opportunity for the overall professional development of your team.
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 Burnout and How to Prevent It
When discussing employee burnout, it’s crucial to also consider how your work makes you feel: Energized? Exhausted? A little bit of both?
We’ve been talking a lot about the power of effective recognition on the blog, and we’re interested in the concept that recognition brings the “human" element back to work by setting the tone for the entire employee experience. When organizations get recognition right…
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?
4 Productivity Hacks for Successful Managers to Boost Time Management
Time management is a skill worth learning for all employees, managers, and c-level executives. Answer honestly: have you ever looked up from your screen and realized you worked longer than you planned?
While it can be aspirational to aim for work-life balance, actually achieving it can feel a bit more elusive…
What to Do if You’ve Been Recently Promoted to Manager
Have you recently been promoted to manager? At Leadology, we promise to always tell it like it is… and we’re not going to lie, transitioning from buddy to boss is not easy. There are many factors that contribute to the lack of ease surrounding any promotion, including the reality that suddenly the way you’re viewed by your closest work friends changes when you step into your new role. The good news? Being viewed differently doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Today we’re sharing our top tips for a smooth transition from buddy to boss.
How to Run Effective Meetings in a Post-Pandemic World
Running an effective meeting is worthwhile, and there’s no doubt that running a worthwhile meeting has always been something of an art. But of course, now more than ever (a phrase that seems perpetually relevant), navigating hybrid work meetings has made us even more intentional– and become all the more important.
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!
Best Professional Development Trend for 2025
This might sound overly simplified, but… people like to grow. If your employees are complaining about training and development as an extra commitment… there’s probably a reason for it and it’s one you ought to pay attention to.
In our humble opinion, the absolute best trend for professional development this year needs to include fun!
Adult learning theory shows that the best training is self-directed, rewarding, and fun! That means if something feels forced or not relevant to the day-to-day situations your employees are facing, then they will do their best to avoid it at all costs.
How to Manage in a Multi-Generational Workplace
Recently I got an Instagram DM with the following question…
“I’m in my 30s. A bunch of my direct reports are in their 50s. Advice on how I can get taken seriously?”
While it may seem daunting to manage someone older than you, it’s your job to help bring out the distinct skill sets each person can bring to the table. Today, we’re sharing how.
Create an Employee Experience Strategy With Which Your Employees Can’t Help But Succeed
Creating an employee experience strategy is integral to any well-functioning team. To top it off, according to Gallup, 70% of variance in employee engagement lies with the manager. Not only are managers the translator between strategic and tactical thinking and responsible when things break down on their team, but according to this powerful statistic they are also the gateway for how employees view the larger organization.
Team Gift Ideas for the Holiday Season
With the holiday season in full swing, I’m sure you’ve already begun crossing friends and family off of your gift-giving list. However, by the time you get around to selecting the perfect presents for your boss, favorite colleague, or entire team, you may be a little stumped as to what to get.
- 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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