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Eight Tips for Giving Good Feedback May 25, 2023 Posted in: Blog, Tanja YardleyIf you have a performance review or feedback session coming up, you might find you are in the vast majority of people who dread the experience—especially if you have had a bad experience in receiving or giving feedback in the past.
Yet as humans, we truly need and benefit from feedback. Unfortunately, parties on both sides of the table have trouble with these sessions and a lot of companies fail to offer a defined feedback loop for its people.
Using Gross National Happiness Tools to Find Fulfillment at Work May 25, 2023 Posted in: Blog, Dr. Francis EberleI tend to view things in a positive way and as a new month unfolds, I get excited about the potential. Recently I started reading a book my niece sent me by Tho Ha Vinn, called A Culture of Happiness. To be honest I hadn’t really planned on reading as I thought it was about being an optimist and having a “just do it” attitude. There is nothing wrong with that, but those books don’t resonate with me.
Out of respect for my niece, I committed to reading it. As I read, the concepts felt familiar and my reading picked up. The book talks about how to apply the framework of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which is a way to measure happiness. Lately, happiness at work has become a topic, particularly when related to mental health.Read More
“One of the reasons why we wrote this book was because many of the strategy books were not focusing on results. One of the most important things is to plan for results.”
Dr. Evans Baiya and Professor Timothy Waema detail the next stage of their book, “Optimizing Strategy for Results,” co-authored with Ron Price. In their conversation with host Dale Dixon, they build on the decisions made in Stage 4 to move on to Stage 5: Strategic Planning for Execution. This stage involves executing those decisions, monitoring for results, and creating clear metrics. The authors also discuss how to avoid a breakdown between the stages by using the canvases and tools from the book as your guide.
Learn more about the 7 Stages of Strategy at optimizingstrategyforresults.com and purchase your copy of the book here.
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