Why Reflective Leadership Is the Key to a Successful Purpose Transformation
Perhaps more than any other generation, purpose is what inspires younger generations of workers to engage and put forth their best efforts in the workplace. So whether your organization has committed to a purpose transformation or not, the chances are it is undergoing one anyway, simply by virtue of the fact that the face of your workforce is changing.read more at inc.com
To Get Along With Difficult People, Try This Research-Backed Approach
Conflict at work isn’t always avoidable. But those conflicts could go more easily if you consider how your colleagues see themselves, according to a recent study from the University of Notre Dame. “What matters is that we’re aware of each other’s subjective realities,” explained the study’s author, management professor Brittany Solomon, in a summary of the findings. “I think that sometimes people get along because they mistakenly assume everyone is on the same page. Read more…
The best bosses see employees as humans
Former Apple and Google executive Kim Scott broke down the two essential discussions managers should have with their employees to better understand their goals in a recently-posted Business Insider video. Learn about employees’ goals through their life stories and dreams The first conversation Scott suggests having is about employees’ lives and how they grew up, “starting with kindergarten,” but emphasizing “pivots” they made as a way to find out what drives them. Why hone in on the strategic changes your employees have made in life during this discussion? read more at theladders.com
Busy lives require better goal-setting
All too often, our minds are reactively focused on the estimated 35,000 decisions we make each day and the management of the 150 tasks on our to-do lists that research tells us the average professional has at any given time. The idea of goal-setting is far from new, but what I notice from people I coach and manage, and from my own behaviours, is that the way we approach goals is often flawed. We repeatedly set far too many ambiguous goals and make no time to understand the practicalities of how we get from where we are today to where we want to be in the future. read more at marketingweek.com