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A roundup of content and interviews dedicated to helping you awaken the leader within.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Handle Office Gossip
Let’s talk about gossip: How many times in the office have you gotten a sinking feeling after hearing a conversation start with, “Did you hear that so-and-so did X, Y, and Z”?
How to Keep a Growth Mindset about Negative Feedback in the Workplace
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that workplace leaders are human too, and not immune to giving teams badly communicated– or altogether negative– feedback. If you’ve ever found yourself in a position where you’re receiving poor feedback or feedback that you disagree with, it’s important to keep a growth mindset and ask yourself: what can I still learn from this?
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.
How to Build a “Growth Mindset” Through Experimentation
Are you ready to embrace a growth mindset in your leadership role? Offices that were beginning to shift to hybrid or fully in-person work are now delaying their return plans. As frustrating as this setback may be (trust me! I feel you), I still think this time can serve as an incredible opportunity to reimagine our work lives. Whether you’re a new manager facing hybrid work challenges, or a veteran hybrid work leader, you’ll benefit from Leadology’s leadership coaching principles.
How to Reach Your 2024 Goals Successfully
We want you to reach your 2023 goals successfully! You can have your best year yet, it just takes some concentrated effort to plan smart goals. Everyone knows the typical steps to achieve your goals: decide on your goal, create the steps needed to reach the goal, and commit to taking those steps in a timely manner. We like to think differently about how we achieve success. Although you may scoff at this method, we ask you to keep an open mind.
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.
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.
The Manager’s Guide to Difficult Conversations
On a scale of one to ten how much do you dread difficult conversations? You know, those conversations that might include delivering unpleasant news, discussing delicate (and often emotional) topics, and talking about something that needs to change or went wrong?
What Is “Managing Up” and What Does it Have to Do With Strengths-Based Development?
One of the biggest opportunities organizations have to increase retention, build company culture, and reinforce values is to create and promote a culture of learning. In fact, 94% of employees said they would stay at a company longer if it invested in their learning and development.
Skip the “New Year, New You” BS and Start 2024 Strong With This Instead
What does it mean to you to have a strong year?
Maybe it means up-levelling your self-awareness, feeling more productive and inspired, or finally knowing how to advocate for yourself and all you deserve.
The great news? Strengths-Based Development can help you with all of the above...and MORE.
How Do I Discover My Leadership Superpowers?
A great team starts with an excellent leader.
But what does it mean to be an excellent leader? At Leadology, we believe that your strengths are your pathway to excellence and that we each owe it to ourselves to discover our talents, nurture them, and spend a lifetime deepening them.
Develop Successful Delegation Skills to Become a Better Manager
Delegation skills are crucial for all new managers, or anyone in a leadership position. Since leadership and management often goes hand-in-hand with a sense of responsibility, that responsibility manifests in a lot of different tasks and implementation methods, commonly known as delegation. In this article we break down what delegation is (and isn’t), and how to approach delegation in a way that makes your team feel developed and not dumped on.
In other words? Read this to forever ban the words “I’ll just do it myself” from your vocabulary!
Let's Rumble
According to Brown, “The word rumble is more than just a weird West Side Story reference, it’s a way to say, “Let’s have a real conversation, even if it’s tough.”
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