It is time to do away with the word “onboarding.” With the workforce seeing multiple generations, shortages of specific talent and individual preferences, we should be humanizing the process and the words we use to describe it. This is particularly important if a new employee is going to be remote or hybrid, as it might be a long time before they actually meet their supervisor in person.
We previously talked about your wants, desires, and wishes for different periods of time. Now, I want to invite you to view wants from a different angle.
A coaching client asked me recently if I would work through a Vision Board process with her. I realized that although I do this for myself at least once a year, I haven’t shared my process. Plus, this is a great way to clarify your wants as we head into the New Year!
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My executive clients bemoan the fact that they “can’t get anything done” during the business day, and in fact, “the real work begins after 5:30.” Their schedules are filled with meetings, calls, email and putting out fires.
A recurring management theme is leaders who assume that their people know what’s on their minds. I call this “managing by telepathy,” as these leaders often neglect to articulate what they want.
This is rarely intentional. After all, you don’t sit in your office and think about how you can avoid good communication with your people. But you can get swept up in the busyness of your day and simply think that you said something when actually it never left your mind.
Career and Workplace Strategist Davina Ware joins TCL Podcast host Dale Dixon to discuss the various barriers and blindspots when it comes to communication, whether that’s between colleagues or a leader and their team. Davina shares stories of different communication gaps she has witnessed and gives advice on how to close the gap before it can create cracks in the foundation of the organization.
Career and Workplace Strategist Davina Ware joins TCL Podcast host Dale Dixon to discuss the various barriers and blindspots when it comes to communication, whether that’s between colleagues or a leader and their team. Davina shares stories of different communication gaps she has witnessed and gives advice on how to close the gap before it can create cracks in the foundation of the organization.
At one time or another, entrepreneurial leaders face the challenge of transitioning from “doing the doing” to leading their organizations. Over the years, many of my clients have passed through various stages of this transition, and frankly, it’s not an easy one.
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How would you rate yourself on asking for help?
I’m not talking about being a slacker and asking others to do your job. Instead, this is about chipping away at your “I can do it all” mentality and gaining benefits from someone who is willing or even eager to help you.
From Episode 86 of The Complete Leader Podcast
Do you remember when you could only buy one song at a time, on a 45? Or, if you had enough money, maybe five or six songs on each side of a 33?
Perhaps I’m dating myself.
But paradigms within the music industry have changed significantly over the past several decades, from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to getting your music over the internet—and now we each have entire libraries at our fingertips. These paradigm shifts, especially with the coming of the internet, were hugely disruptive to the industry. But they each took place to solve a problem or exploit an opportunity.
Keeping yourself on track takes more than a great system. Staying on track takes a net woven together with supportive people who will push you to go higher, hold you up and catch you when you fall.
How do you weave this kind of support net?