If 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.
I 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
By Alex Banks
Growing up with a single mom who had six boys by the age of 21, it was no easy task. As the middle child, I faced many challenges from an early age. I was born with learning disabilities and struggled in school, which left me feeling frustrated and defeated. My mother worked long hours to support our family, but we still lived in poverty. These early struggles taught me to be resilient and to never give up, no matter how tough the situation.
As the saying goes, you are only as strong as your weakest point.
This applies to many aspects of life but is especially visible when your organization is trying to roll out a new innovation initiative.
From The Complete Leader Podcast Episode 84
If you want to be a futuristic thinker, you also need to be an ideator.
In my work with The Innovator’s Advantage, Dr. Evans Baiya and I guide teams and organizations through the innovation process. It’s essentially a blueprint for futuristic thinking, to take an idea and move it through this process to create something of new value. And we’ve often found that one of the greatest roadblocks to success is in a team’s ability to create new ideas.
From Episodes 82 and 83 of The Complete Leader Podcast
Futuristic thinking is one of those skills that does not come easy for a lot of leaders. So, if you feel this way, you are not alone!
It’s an important skill to continuously develop as our world is constantly changing. If you aren’t thinking about the future, you might find you’ve been left behind.
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Sorry managers, but training employees is not just a necessary part of your job, it’s essential. Employees may go through corporate training programs to learn the basics of their jobs, but knowing the basics isn’t enough to succeed.
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Leaders are a critical component of any successful organization—you play a vital role in setting the tone, establishing direction and guiding your teams toward success.
The key is to be intentional in your approach and to continuously assess and improve your leadership style to ensure that you are uncovering and maximizing the potential of your people. Because without your team, there wouldn’t be any results to begin with.
You may have heard a story similar to this one. Bob is amazing at programming. He can create algorithms and find bugs faster than most. He stays focused for hours and enjoys sitting at his computer. If your business needs coders, Bob might be a great fit. Bob is autistic.
In this example, Bob is a fictional character, illustrating that all of us have unique talents and can contribute positively to the workplace. Read More
Sharing the why, the value proposition, for what you are asking others to do can be an effective lever for setting up accountability. Value propositions seek to solve a problem and satisfy a need for a customer. When people know how their part of the job contributes to the value offered to the customer, and how their work directly impacts the customer’s perceptions, expectations and outcomes, they are much more likely to deliver their part of the work on time at the required specification and participate actively in improving results.