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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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Employer Branding Essentials for Successful Scaling
Understanding employer branding essentials means recognizing that your employer brand is the company’s inward-facing identity, primarily aimed at employee retention and recruitment. Furthermore, it reflects the reputation you have built as an employer, supported by your employer value propositions. Employer branding is the process of managing your reputation as an employer among your employees, potential…
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22 Self-Improvement Areas for Leadership Development
An HRPA study from 2016 reports that 63% of millennials complain that employers aren’t fully developing their leadership skills, with 72% of those surveyed last year insisting on feedback, coaching, and leadership development to remain in an organization—highlighting the need for a comprehensive management guide to address these concerns. I have previously covered the 11…
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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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How to Assemble a High-Performing Team
Having spent the last 11 years growing an agency, one of the factors we consistently focus on optimizing is building and maintaining a high-performance team. Agencies are a weird beast that gets scrutinized all the time. Why? Agencies are a combination of them all. The feast-and-famine cycle leads to irregular levels of work, sales, and…
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Managing Interruptions And Boosting Work Performance During Crisis
Digital businesses were forced to move fully remotely during the social isolation of COVID-19. While they may have been accustomed to some level of remote work, managing interruptions became a critical challenge as they fully embraced a distributed workforce, highlighting the need for new strategies to maintain productivity. This shift demanded not only a robust…