3 approaches to becoming a better coach
There are many methods managers can take to become a better coach. Today, I’m giving you three keys to coaching success. Try them out and find the best approach that works for you and your team members.
Phil Ash
Create an ideal culture with 5 essential leadership skills
Nowadays, the difference between a thriving organization and a failing one often comes down to one critical factor: culture. In their recent book, Why Managers Fail and Leaders Prevail, John and Katie McCann analyze why cultures are crucial to organizational success.
Surviving the 2024 election with your workplace intact
At the recent SHRM Conference, workplace behavior expert Dr. Dennis Davis of Ogletree Deakins and nationally recognized employment lawyer Joe Beachboard of Beachboard Consulting discussed critical issues associated with employee expression from legal and psychological standpoints. They also offered
8 strategies for lowering employee anxiety
Managers may not be able to do much about inflation, climate change, school shootings and the plethora of other issues that add to the anxiety of modern life. They can, however, reduce workplace stressors under their control. Support employee well-being with these actions.
Losing control: Making a successful transition to manager
Transitioning successfully from an individual contributor to a people-manager role is no easy feat. After all, what made you successful as an individual contributor can potentially hold you back in terms of your leadership success. Why? One simple word: Control.
Require bosses to contact HR before telling employee to participate in EAP
Employee assistance program referrals can help workers deal with small mental- or behavioral-health problems—for example, showing up for work hungover—before they balloon into mental- and behavioral-health crises, such as developing alcoholism. Bosses are often the ones who talk to troubled subordin
Gallup: Worldwide, people are feeling better, but not as positive as a decade ago
Are your workers starting to feel more positive and less stressed? According to Gallup’s 2024 Global Emotions Report, the answer is yes. In 2023, global emotional health improved, with negative emotions decreasing for the first time in 10 years and positive emotions returning to pre-pandemic highs.
How and why you need to build your emotional intelligence
Self-awareness is the cornerstone of building emotional intelligence. Emotional ownership is a way to care for yourself and notice what’s happening in your mind and body to remain healthy. There are additional techniques that you can use to build self-awareness over time. With these techniques, you
The 10 most-detested business clichés of 2024
Business buzzwords come and go. Employees wish these 10 corporate clichés would vanish, according to outplacement firm Careerminds.com, which commissioned a poll of 3,000 workers. Pass them around to your managers, spread the word and erase them from your vocabulary.
Why Gen Z says they ghost employers
More than 90% of recruiters participating in a recent survey by the Jobera.com online hiring platform said they have been ghosted by Generation Z candidates who—poof!—disappear without notice, never to be heard from again. To find out why and what turns them away, Jobera surveyed 925 members of Gen