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Asking for Help: Getting the Support You Need Without Looking Weak
We all need help at work from time to time, but it’s not always easy to say so. No matter how far you’ve come in your career, you may worry about seeming incompetent, weak, or simply annoying if you ask for assistance.
But seeking support isn’t a weakness. In fact, it’s often the difference between failure and success. It can prevent costly or embarrassing mistakes, and mark you out as someone with self-awareness, confidence, and an understanding of shared goals.
What’s more, drawing on other people’s skills can benefit the helper, and your wider organization, too.
In this article, we’ll look at how and when to ask for help at work, and how to do it right.
“Yes” to the Person, “No” to the Task…Asserting Yourself While Maintaining Relationships
The word “negotiation” conjures up images of high-pressure situations, where people have a lot to lose if they get things wrong.
In fact, you probably negotiate several times each day. You do it at home and at work for all sorts of things, from deciding what to make for dinner, to settling on terms for a job promotion.
Because of this, you are a negotiator, even if you don’t think of yourself as one! But how well do you negotiate? Do you know how to recognize situations where negotiating is appropriate? And do you understand the elements of an effective negotiation?
In this article, we’ll discuss some of the fundamentals of negotiating successfully, so that you can meet your needs without causing conflict when you do have to say “no.”
Using Working Styles to Build Better Teams – Deloitte’s Business Chemistry
Picture a team where the mix of people just doesn’t work.
Perhaps there’s a dominant individual who ignores consensus and insists that things are done their way. Or a blue-sky thinker who’s always flying off on tangents. Or maybe there’s a team leader who’s great with detail and planning, but can’t communicate their decisions.
Now imagine a team where everyone works together effectively, playing to their strengths to achieve the best results, even when they have conflicting priorities and needs.
Deloitte’s Business Chemistry® gives you a framework that can make that vision a reality. In this article, we examine how the model works, and how you can implement it using five simple steps.
How to Work With Irritating People: Dealing With Minor but Persistent Annoying Behavior
Greg grits his teeth and takes a deep breath. “Be calm,” he tells himself. “Don’t let it get to you. It’s just Carl being Carl.”
But Greg has been gritting his teeth for months now, and he’s finding Carl’s irritating behavior increasingly disruptive and distracting. There’s the frequent cursing, the “reply all” to emails, the smelly sandwiches, and the black hole of scattered papers that is his desk.
Greg doesn’t know what to do. Should he continue to ignore it and pretend everything’s fine? Confront Carl? Talk to his supervisor? Go to HR? Or maybe even look for a job in another department?
In this article, we look at the damaging impact that persistent, irritating behaviors like Carl’s can have on workplace relationships team morale, and performance. We’ll also explore strategies that you can use to tackle them.
Core Self-Evaluations: Using Self-Knowledge to Boost Your Success and Well-Being at Work
Which of these personalities best matches yours? Tina’s, who comes to work with a smile on her face, who talks about her role positively, and seizes new opportunities with relish? Or Rachel’s, who looks permanently stressed and upset, complains about her lack of success, and blames all her problems on others?
Tina and Rachel clearly experience their working lives very differently, even though they’re on the same team, doing the same job. Their differences may be due to their core self-evaluations (CSE) – how they view key aspects of their personality and outlook.
In this article, we examine how core self-evaluations can affect your success and satisfaction at work. You’ll also discover how you can use CSE to understand yourself better, improve what you do in your current role, and move forward in your career confidently.
What Is Psychological Capital? Becoming a Workplace HERO
Have you ever noticed that some people always seem to be able to forge ahead, no matter what gets thrown at them? This is likely because they have a high degree of psychological capital, or “PsyCap.”
Psychological capital is something we can all develop to help us overcome obstacles, lower stress and improve job satisfaction.
As a manager, focusing on psychological capital has the potential to transform your organization for the better – improving the performance and well-being of your team.
In this article, we explain what psychological capital is, and explore how you can develop yours and forge ahead on your career path while taking your team with you!
To Be a Great Leader, You Need the Right Mindset
Mindsets are leaders’ mental lenses that dictate what information they take in and use to make sense of and navigate the situations they encounter. Simply, mindsets drive what leaders do and why. For example, they explain why two different leaders might encounter the same situation (e.g., a subordinate disagreement) and process and respond to it very differently. One leader might see the situation as a threat that hinders their authority; another as an opportunity to learn and further develop. When leadership development efforts ignore mindsets, they ignore how leaders see and interpret problems and opportunities like this one.
You may wonder: if mindsets are so important, which ones should you help your leaders develop? In our recent work, we broadly scoured research across the social sciences to understand the various mindsets that individuals may possess. In doing so, we identified four distinct sets of mindsets that have been found to affect leaders’ ability to engage with others, navigate change more successfully, and perform in their leadership roles more effectively.
An ability to override short-term impulses that conflict with long-term goals is a hallmark of successful people. Research has shown that people with strong self-control have better health, relationships, finances, and careers. They are also less likely to have problems with overeating, overspending, smoking, alcohol or drug abuse, procrastination, and unethical behavior. Overcoming temptation also seems to be intrinsically rewarding — people with high self-control are also more satisfied with their lives and experience their lives as more meaningful.
But is resisting temptation always beneficial? A small but growing body of research has begun to illuminate a dark side of self-control, with important implications…
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