Category: Human Resourses Training

Critical Practices for Leading a Team

When talking about leading a team, many focus on long-term intact teams. These may be organizational support teams, sales teams or service teams – regardless of mission, they are designed to stay together for a long time. 

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Leading A Team to Success in Five Steps

Let’s be clear: teamwork is really hard. For every blog article proclaiming how beneficial teamwork is, there is a manager struggling to make it happen in the real world. In this article, we’ll look at five critical steps that help these managers lead a team to success.

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Personality and Conflict Managing Style

Why do our coworkers stress us out? One of the reasons may be our personality types. In fact, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) denotes sixteen main personality types, including adventurers, inspectors and masterminds (among others). Each of those diverse personality types handles conflict differently.

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National Safety Month: Assess and Act

The first step in developing or revising your personal or organizational safety plan is assessment. Here are several areas that you should consider – either as a leader of others, or for your own safety and well-being.

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National Safety Month: Tips for Observing Workplace Safety

The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate and provides a variety of tools and resources that organizations and leaders can use to create safer workplaces.  The organization celebrates June as National Safety Month, making it an appropriate time to pause and take stock of safety practices at work, at home and on the road.

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Global Employee Health and Fitness Month: Tips for Leaders

Global Employee Health and Fitness Month sets aside a specific month of the year to help organizations focus on physical fitness and healthy lifestyles.  Encouraging active living, quality physical education and health programs can have long term benefits for individuals, teams and organizations.

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Global Employee Health and Fitness Month: The Employer’s Guide

At the start of the year, many people set ambitious and optimistic health and fitness goals as part of their New Year's resolutions. And, too many people also find that those goals tend to fade away as the year unfolds.

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After the Performance Review: Preparing for the Year Ahead

 At their best, performance reviews should be the start of a two-way dialogue that will last the entire year. Here are some tips: Acknowledge that the performance review — while important — is a moment in time over the course of a year. One conversation is unlikely to change the…
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Staying Present in a Performance Review – Key Tips

Even with effective planning, performance reviews can take many turns during the conversation.  Here are some common patterns that can occur in the conversation, and ways to keep things on track and focused on outcomes. Start with identifying projects or tasks that were key areas of focus for the year.…
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Tips: Preparing to Give a Performance Review

It’s time to evaluate your employees’ performance, and as with many important conversations, effective preparation is key.  Your first step should be to objectively reflect on each person’s contributions over the past year. Here are some tips: It is easy to consider only the past few weeks when considering performance—a…
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