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Employee Motivation Strategies For Managers And Executives
What determines “progress” in terms of employment often ties back to factors like employee motivation, which drives performance, engagement, and overall job satisfaction. Progress is defined by focusing on a higher goal without having to constantly worry about day-to-day needs (food, water, shelter, clothing). Those are the basic survival needs. Until you are sure that…
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11 Traits Of A Great Manager And Top Tips To Develop Them
There are good managers, and then there are those who exhibit the key traits of a great manager. According to The Predictive Index, nearly 30% of employees believe their managers fail at team-building skills, and a portion of them suck at handling feedback, delegation, and time management. Managers who are successful in their respective fields…
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5 Business Process Challenges For Project Managers
Management and ownership are different, but are these truly incompatible within a business process? Successful business owners and entrepreneurs have simply struggled for a continuous period of time, juggling with anything and everything from legal and accounting through sales and marketing, IT, operations, recruitment, branding, management, negotiations, to name A FEW. This isn’t necessarily a…
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9 Important Lessons About Burnout In The Workplace
While I’m not a medical professional, I’ve been through several burnouts and some of my team members have blanked out for a few weeks before getting back on track. Here are several observations and thoughts of mine regarding burnouts. 1. Burnouts Are Often Not Directly Related to Work All of my burnouts and most of…
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How Remote Teams Work Together
Working with remote teams is all about mutual trust. It’s similar to assessing the security of your home, the reliability of your office job, or the viability of your relationship. It’s about creating an ecosystem where both parties can operate securely, reliably, and respectfully. Employers and employees must mutually invest in this ecosystem, recognizing that…
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How to Manage Difficult People in Your Team
One of the biggest problems new managers face is juggling team management with other responsibilities, especially when they have to manage difficult people. According to an analysis by the Center for Creative Leadership, about 68% of new managers struggle with this issue. In team management, managers mainly deal with managing difficult people and challenges involving…
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12 Productivity Frameworks And Tools For Effective Management
Over 50,000 US users search for “productivity” in Google every single month, highlighting the growing interest in finding an effective productivity framework. When you add the long list of queries around productivity tips, productivity apps, productivity planners, and other forms of definitions around the term, we’re ranking over 300,000 total searches across the board. We…
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The Business Guide to Intrapreneurship
With the boom of entrepreneurship, there has been a distinct separation between corporate work and starting a business of your own. However, most people are not familiar with what intrapreneurs are or how intrapreneurship works, as it receives far less coverage than it should. While entrepreneurship often gets the spotlight, intrapreneurship offers a compelling alternative…