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.
Give Your Employees Specific Goals and the Freedom to Figure Out How to Reach Them
As more aspects of work become automated, it is increasingly important for people to focus on building skills that support creative and innovative tasks only human beings can perform. Efficiency is turning into the watchword of machines, and the opportunity for humans is work that addresses unseen problems and opportunities. This means we need to be very explicit with employees about how we measure success and the metrics that drive it (specify more). Then, having stated clearly how success is measured, we need to allow employees to freely, creatively pursue ways to reach it (specify less).
13 Ways We Justify, Rationalize, or Ignore Negative Feedback
Everybody loves feedback . . . as long as it’s positive.
But most of us dislike negative feedback so much that we’ve even changed the name — it’s not negative, it’s constructive.
Still, it’s an irreplaceably valuable gift.
We need to know when we are doing things that don’t land the way we planned. When our impact veers from our intention. And the best — often times the only — way to discover that gap is through feedback.
That said, chances are you fight against it…
Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail
With ever-increasing demands at work for both mid-level and senior leaders, the ability to execute and get things done is a key driver of success. But it can ultimately become a leader’s downfall, resulting in unintended costs for the individual, as well as for their teams and organizations.
The high levels of efficiency that allow highly task-focused leaders to be so productive often come at the expense of a more people-based focus. Things like building relationships, inspiring a team, developing others, and showing empathy can fall by the wayside. Highly efficient leaders often lose their focus on people due to a limiting belief that more people-focused activities will slow them down and impede their ability to execute, and to ultimately be successful.
Paraphrasing and Summarizing: Summing Up Key Ideas In Your Own Words
Imagine you’re preparing a presentation for your CEO. You asked everyone in your team to contribute, and they all had plenty to say!
But now you have a dozen reports, all in different styles, and your CEO says that she can spare only 10 minutes to read the final version. What do you do?
The solution is to paraphrase and summarize the reports, so your boss gets only the key information that she needs, in a form that she can process quickly.
In this article, we explain how to paraphrase and how to summarize, and how to apply these techniques to text and the spoken word. We also explore the differences between the two skills, and point out the pitfalls to avoid.
Improving Physical Health and Well-Being at Work: Avoiding the Dangers of Sitting Down
Seph imagines that his body is a temple. But the reality is that he sits all day at a computer. He works late, feels stressed, eats junk food, and spends his evenings on the couch watching TV.
He knows that his physical health and well-being are suffering. Seph wants to make changes, but he’s struggling with the “practicalities.” He’s finding it tricky to break his sedentary and stressful work routine.
In this article, we’ll look at ways to tackle situations like Seph’s – by building activity into your working day. We’ll also show that, by focusing on fitness and health, you can boost your own productivity, performance and resilience, and that of your team.
How to Start Your Day: Managing Mornings When You’re Not a “Morning Person”
The alarm rings with the sunrise, and you leap out of bed, shower and get dressed. Next, you brew the perfect mug of coffee before heading off to work with a spring in your step!
Sound familiar? Perhaps not. And you’re not alone: many dedicated, conscientious people struggle to “get going” in the mornings.
Research shows that biology determines whether you’re a “lark” or an “owl.” A lark will wake up and fall sleep early, while an owl is an evening person who will peak later in the day. This is called your “chronotype.”
There’s not much you can do to change your chronotype, but you can manage it. In this article, we explore strategies that you can use to set yourself up for the day if you’re more owl than lark.
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