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How To Define Roles and Responsibilities at Work
Effectively defining roles and responsibilities is a critical aspect of team leadership. Clear expectations and well-defined roles lead to increased productivity, accountability, and collaboration within the team, as everyone understands how they contribute. If you’re looking for a thoughtful and systematic approach to defining team roles and responsibilities, here are the steps you must take.
Coaching Conversations Checklist
It can be intimidating when you’re new to having coaching conversations. To help you feel more confident, follow the checklist of best practices for coaching conversations at work.
How To Lead a Procrastinator: The Do's and Don'ts
Having a procrastinator on your team doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, they could very well become star performers or high potentials should they have sufficient personal responsibility, development opportunities, and leadership. To give you an idea of the kind of things they need from you, here is a list of five do’s and don’ts to account for when leading a procrastinator.
9 Steps to Address Poor Performance
As someone who manages people, it is your duty and responsibility to address poor performance as soon as you possibly can, no matter how nervous doing so might make you feel. If you don’t, you not only do your employee a great disservice, you may even jeopardize your entire team’s performance. One way to make it easier to address poor performance with employees is to have a step-by-step process, such as this one, that you can follow.
4 Ways to Become a Better Manager
Getting promoted and receiving a management position is the first step in becoming a leader. However, being a good manager will take much more than a title. Effective managers have the knowledge and skills to lead a team to success and, in turn, significantly impact their organization. They can bring the best out of others, inspire great work, and become influential leaders employees want to follow.
8 Truths About High Potentials
What makes a high-potential employee different from the rest? Why is it important to identify them? What do they value? We answer these questions and more in the eight things to know about high-potential employees.
The Free 30-Day Leadership Challenge
To help you on your leadership journey, we’ve compiled a 30-day leadership challenge filled with tips, tricks, templates, and resources. This self-paced workbook allows you to learn how to be a good manager at your own pace with actionable insights and tasks.
What Is Feedback Training for Managers?
Feedback training for managers equips those in people management positions with the skills and tools needed to deliver constructive and motivating feedback to employees, peers, and bosses, as well as receive it from those individuals. It will cover a variety of topics, including active listening techniques, empathy, and the art of framing feedback positively so that managers feel capable of delivering feedback that enhances team performance and boosts morale.
How To Be a Good Manager: A 30-Day Roadmap for Leaders
If you’re genuinely committed to being a good manager and want to level up your leadership skills, joining the 30-Day Leadership Challenge is a great place to start. During each day of the challenge, you will gain knowledge and apply your learning in a quick activity.
6 Ways Leaders Can Support Intrapreneurs
Do you have someone on your team who is a self-starter who proactively finds efficiencies and comes to you with fresh ideas and creative solutions to problems? There is a good chance you may have an intrapreneur on your team. So, how do you create the right conditions to harness their unique talents? Start by doing these six things.
Does Your Direct Report Have Leadership Potential?
Being an effective leader requires going beyond meeting deadlines and achieving goals. The best leaders understand they play a critical role in identifying and nurturing the next generation of leaders by developing and coaching them. With the fierce competition for talent, organizations need to tap into their talent pool, and direct leaders are the linchpin. So, if you’re wondering what you should be looking for, here are our 14 signs a direct report may be one of your future leaders.
Training Needs Assessment for Managers
A training needs assessment, which you might also refer to as a training needs analysis or TNA, is a tool used in the workplace to identify where gaps in skills, competence, and knowledge exist. The Training Needs Assessment Success Kit is designed to walk you through the process from start to finish by prompting you to complete a series of templates, including a: ✔️ SWOT Analysis Template ✔️ Gap Analysis Template ✔️ Training Provider Comparison Checklist ✔️ Training Needs Assessment Template
How To Conduct a Start-Stop-Continue Exercise (+Template)
If you’re looking for an exercise to run with your team to help improve their performance and increase collaboration, there’s no shortage of options on Google. However, not all of those options will actually be able to help you achieve that goal. One that will, though, is the start-stop-continue exercise.
How To Lead a Procrastinator
Leading a procrastinator can be challenging, especially if you aren’t one yourself. However, it can help to follow these five do's and don'ts.
46.9% of Leaders Use the Democratic Leadership Style
The leadership style results heavily favored three styles of leadership, democratic, affiliative, and charismatic, which comprised 86.3% of the styles for all respondents. The breakdown of each style is as follows: Democratic Style: 46.9% of respondents Affiliative Style: 20.6% of respondents Charismatic Style: 18.8% of respondents Pacesetting Style: 7.7% of respondents Laissez-Faire Style: 3.1% of respondents Authoritarian Style: 2.8% of respondents