Office chit-chat: Striking the perfect balance between bonding and productivity
Good things happen when workers bond. Too much conversation, however, can distract staff members from getting things done. When should a manager intervene?
Managing People at Work
4 suggestions to foster productive team brainstorming
Managers recognize that time is precious. Thus, when gathering the troops for a brainstorming session, they want as fruitful a yield as possible. What actions might contribute to success? Every group’s purpose and dynamic are different, but these strategies often prove useful.
7 areas of employment law managers must know
Managers aren’t expected to serve as human resources experts. However, it is a supervisor’s job to follow internal policies and employment law. Here are seven areas of employment law you should have a high-level awareness of.
Create a supportive and respectful environment for transgender employees
As part of your managerial position, you play a critical role in creating and maintaining a safe environment where every employee feels comfortable being themselves. To provide the best support possible, you need some ways to create an ideal workplace culture that welcomes transgender peers.
How to keep negativity from infecting your workplace
Negativity in the workplace kills morale and, left unchecked, can spread like wildfire. It leads to lower productivity and less engagement at work, and contributes to a toxic work environment, which leads to high turnover and employee stress.
Tips for keeping generational differences from disrupting your team
With Generation Z entering the workplace, millennials already entrenched and an aging workforce of Gen X and boomers staying around, the modern office presents an alphabet soup of working styles and social norms at play. Smart managers understand the importance of staying out of hot water by success
Can chatty personalities serve as productive employees?
Chattiness at work is often seen as a distraction. However, according to new data from Prodoscore, a business intelligence solution, a chatty employee is a productive employee. While chattiness feeds some people’s preferred way of working, it is distracting or draining for others. Managers must set
Management strategies: When an employee constantly seeks your help
“Why can’t this employee leave me alone?” While some managers need to think about how to encourage direct reports to come to them for help, others deal with the opposite problem. “Needy” workers can take up a large amount of a leader’s time and test one’s patience with their unquenchable desire for
Build a pipeline to develop impactful managers
Managers are often responsible for identifying individuals who can be promoted to managerial roles. However, not everyone wants to be a manager, and people are frequently placed into managerial roles without training. Here’s how you can identify and support new managers while offering growth opportu
Need accountability tools? Geofencing may offer a solution
Time theft could be occurring right under your nose. What stops employees from clocking in before they reach the job site? Without a way to closely monitor time punches, you’d have no way of knowing whether they’re on location or not. That’s why geofencing time clocks have become popular in recent y