BLACKPOOL HEALTH LIBRARY: At the Heart of Quality Information on the Fylde Coast! Management Update from your Library: a collection of interesting articles focusing on leadership and management.
Helping Your People Find Purpose in Their Work: Finding Deeper Meaning in a Job
No matter what you do, your job exists for a reason. When you know that reason – and when you fully understand how your efforts make the world a better place for someone else – you have found your job’s purpose.
On an individual level, people who understand their job’s wider purpose are happier, more engaged, and more creative. And, from an organizational perspective, when employees see how their roles fit with the company’s goals, staff turnover goes down and productivity rises. People work harder, use their initiative, and make sensible decisions about their work. In turn, the company can operate more efficiently. Everyone, from the CEO to customers, feels the positive effects.
Cultural Intelligence: Working Successfully With Diverse Groups
Some people – those with high “cultural intelligence” – are good at spotting cultural differences, and they adapt their behaviour accordingly. This is a key skill when working with culturally diverse groups. It’s very possible to develop cultural intelligence. In this article, we’ll look at what it is, and we’ll see how to build it.
Don’t Let Lazy Managers Drive Away Your Top Performers
Many people believe that being a good manager only requires common sense, and that it is therefore easy to be one. If this were true, good managers would be commonplace at all levels of more organizations, and as a result, employee engagement and retention would be high. However, only 13% of workers worldwide are engaged at work, and employee turnover rates in the United States are at a 17-year high. As these statistics suggest, either most managers lack common sense, or good management is, in fact, quite challenging in practice.
The Benefits of Laughing in the Office
It turns out that a series of studies shows the positive impact humor can have in the office. “According to research from institutions as serious as Wharton, MIT, and London Business School, every chuckle or guffaw brings with it a host of business benefits,” writes Alison Beard in the HBR article, “Leading with Humor.” “Laughter relieves stress and boredom, boosts engagement and well-being, and spurs not only creativity and collaboration but also analytic precision and productivity.” Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks has also found that cracking jokes at work can make people seem more competent.
Is your teamwork not working? Check out these podcasts from HBR. They talk through what to do when your team isn’t communicating, doesn’t respect its leader, or has one employee who’s causing problems.
Building a Positive Team: Helping Your People to Be Happy and Engaged
Have you ever been part of a highly motivated, high-morale team?
If you have, chances are that most days, you were happy to come to work. You were focused and enthusiastic. You enjoyed collaborating with your colleagues and, together, you worked hard and came up with some great ideas.
Positive, highly motivated teams are fun to be a part of. And they can accomplish far more than teams that struggle with negativity and low morale.
That’s why it’s so important that, as a leader, you strive to build a positive team. In this article and video, we show you how!
Team-Specific Motivation: Discovering Your Team’s Biggest Motivators
Each person in your team is unique, and they are all motivated to succeed by different things.
However, chances are that there are some common factors that motivate everyone in your team. And, once you have uncovered these top motivators, you can focus on them to bring out the very best in everyone.
So, how can you identify your team’s top motivators? One way to do this is with the “Team-Specific Motivation” exercise. We’ll look at how you can use it in this article.
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