While attempting to improve relationships and communication within teams, leaders often adopt industry-specific language to convey complex ideas efficiently. Unfortunately, these clichés often miss the mark, creating an even larger gap between managers and their teams. Forbes recently addressed this issue in an article titled, “20 Pieces of Popular Workplace Jargon Executives Should Not Use,”...
If you or someone you know has anxiety, you probably already know that pursuing a straightforward answer to the question of how best to manage employees who are open about their own anxiety is tricky. As workplace leaders, it’s vital that we remember that while we’re not mental health experts, we do have the ability...
Managers need to have difficult conversations with employees or other team members, even if they are uncomfortable or hard. If you’re looking for advice on how to effectively have these difficult conversations, you’ve come to the right place! Before we dive into the strategies you might employ, let’s get clear on what difficult conversations look...
Raise your hand if you’re a manager who has ever been tempted to cancel a weekly one-on-one meeting. Maybe you feel like you’re unprepared, you have nothing new or of importance to talk about, or that it would just end up being a waste of time. Virtually every other manager has been in your shoes...
We’ve recently gathered such great insight from our community on Instagram, where many managers have expressed feeling intimidated by quiet quitting, rampant burnout, and reports of toxic workplaces across social media and even news headlines. Of course, this can all manifest as an overwhelming pressure to be the “perfect manager,” prompting leaders to take a...
If you’ve ever felt pressure to know and do everything in the office, this is for you! Better yet, let’s rephrase this and ask instead, “When have you felt empowered to ask for help?” In our time working with leaders from a variety of backgrounds, we’ve found that so many suffer silently through heavy workloads,...
To say that the state of the modern workplace is drastically different than what it once was a few years ago is an understatement. Year after year since the rise of hybrid work, managers have been responsible for driving results in the face of many unique challenges — prolonged burnout, mass layoffs and ever-increasing business demands...
Just four years out from the rise of hybrid work across countless industries, we’ve finally begun to witness the long-term impact of this work model on employees, managers and organizations at large. While we all have anecdotal evidence, we’ve also gathered a lot of insight from employee engagement surveys, which have illuminated declining levels of...
With 2024 in full swing, we are already dreaming about all the ways we can transform as leaders this year. At the start of each new year, the widely adopted “back to the grind” mindset can easily overwhelm us. Setting goals that propel our development is crucial, but fostering habits that empower both teams and...
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that workplace leaders are human too, and not immune to giving teams poorly communicated — or altogether negative — feedback. If you’ve ever found yourself in a position where you’re receiving poor feedback or feedback that you disagree with, it’s important to keep a growth mindset and ask yourself: What...
