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Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance
Frances Frei, professor at Harvard Business School, says that trust, empathy – and even a bit of tough love – are all essential ingredients to strong leadership in today’s world. Successful managers focus on the effect they have on others, not themselves. They also define a strategy and create a culture that drives employee behaviour in their absence.
Supporting a Friend or Co-Worker Suffering From Stress: Lending a Helping Hand When Things Get Tough
In this article, you can learn how to identify stress in others, and explore a five-step strategy for tactfully offering your support, without becoming overburdened yourself.
Has COVID-19 created new inequalities in the UK workforce?
Richard Clarke, partner and head of the City Agency & Development team at Matthews & Goodman, has raised an interesting question in relation to the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on workplace equality.
Richard, who has been helping businesses find suitable workspaces for over 28 years, proposes that since we have had to work from home to tackle COVID-19, we are no longer on equal footing in the workplace.
4 in 10 UK workers expect to work from home more often, survey finds
An end to Covid-19 lockdown may not mean an end to home working for many UK workers. A survey has found that 4 in 10 people expect to work from home more than they did before, even once the crisis is over.
More than 5,000 UK workers were asked to think beyond Summer 2020 and consider whether they were more likely, less likely, or equally likely to work from home in the future.
What Really Motivates Employees? 7 Research Studies To Look At
When you want to prove a point, it makes sense to have the data to back it up. Luckily, studies are run all the time on what makes employees feel appreciated and motivated. Here’s a round-up of our favourites.
Managers, Adjust Your Expectations (Without Lowering the Bar)
Most of the country has been sheltering in place and working from home for some time now. This change came with obvious challenges to getting work done for those who live with others — be they roommates, partners, spouses, or children. Then, there are those employees who do not have others at home and now have no commute. One might intuitively think these individuals would be just as productive or even more so, given that research shows remote workers get more done.
To be sure, this might be the case for some people. However, my conversations with dozens of clients and colleagues in the last two months tell me otherwise. Regardless of each person’s situation, the resounding theme that I’ve heard from working professionals, spanning multiple sectors, is that they are not only getting less done, but they are emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausted.
How to Cope with That “Always-On” Feeling
Tools allowing for instant communication have given us the ability to work from anywhere. With employees being only an email away, organizations are now omnipresent in the lives of employees. And now, with many working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, managers and coworkers who were once in the office down the hall, are now in your living room, kitchen, or bedroom (wherever you can find a quiet place to plug in your laptop).
This has opened a door into our personal lives that can be quite difficult to close. The negative effects of this “always-on” lifestyle were becoming apparent even before the pandemic, with research demonstrating that spousal resentment and work-family conflict increased the more often employees checked smart devices during family time.
Now that constant connectivity is our new normal, it is even more important that we learn to set clear boundaries for ourselves, in order to sustain our productivity and our families’ well-being.
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