This article has been submitted by the team at Grapevine Evaluations. Becoming a manager is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. It’s your time to prove why you deserve this promotion. You’re in the spotlight, and it’s a great deal of pressure. There are many opportunities for you to succeed, although there are just as many chances to fail. You can avoid … [Read more...]
9 Bad Habits to Avoid at Work in 2016
On this blog, we often talk about what you can do to improve employees' negative behaviors. However, today, we're going to make you the focus. Even the best leaders possess work habits that irritate their employees and coworkers, while making them less effective at both their jobs and their ability to lead others. What bad habits are holding you back? "Achieving success … [Read more...]
7-Day Plan to Motivate and Engage Employees
To motivate employees, you don't have to throw elaborate parties or offer them big bonuses. In fact, engaging your staff, often comes down to a few simple acts and well-timed phrases. Yet, despite how easy it is, too many leaders (especially new leaders) fail to take the time to show employees appreciation and respect. Don't make that mistake. Instead, motivate your … [Read more...]
[Infographic]: A Star Wars Guide to Achieving Your Goals
As 2015 came to an end, the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was definitely the event of the season. The mega block buster has exceeded $851 million already in sales, and that number certainly will climb. Given the success of the movie, and since January is the time of year when we all set goals, it's only fitting to apply a bit of the sage advice from the Star Wars … [Read more...]
Create a “Pocket of Excellence” that Allows Employees to Thrive
For your employees, create an environment that enables them to be their very best. Shawn Murphy, culture change and leadership consultant and author of the book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, calls the ideal environment a "Pocket of Excellence" and offers these tips for creating a situation that allows your employees to thrive. … [Read more...]
Important Innovation … or Lipstick on a Pig? 3 Questions to Ask to Decide Which Ideas to Keep and Which to Toss
All organizations want to foster innovation. After all, it's how we grow, improve, delight our customers, and—yes—keep getting paid. In today's rapidly changing global landscape, our ability to come up with new ideas is what keeps us relevant. Yet, all innovations are not created equal. So, how to separate the "WOW!" from the "Eh, not now"? This is a question that … [Read more...]
New Leaders: 5 Misconceptions that Undermine Your Success
By Keith Rollag, author of What to Do When You’re New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident and Successful in New Situations So you’ve been promoted and suddenly find yourself leading your friends, teammates and peers. How should you approach your new role? Over the past 20 years I’ve been studying the new leader experience, trying to understand what leads to new leader … [Read more...]
[Infographic]: What is the Breaking Point for Employees?
As a new leader, you are largely responsible for employee engagement, satisfaction and loyalty. How you treat employees plays a significant role in whether they stick around for the long haul or move on the minute something even remotely better comes along. As you know, turnover is costly, killing productivity, morale and the bottom line, so you want to do everything you can to … [Read more...]
Part 2: Maximize Optimism at Work
On Tuesday, we talked about six core symptoms of destructive management that crush workplace optimism. Today we're following up with more advice from Shawn Murphy, leadership consultant and author of The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, on how to keep employee enthusiasm high. He says, “You can position employees to believe that work is … [Read more...]
Part 1: Maximize Optimism in the Workplace
When it comes to work these days, we're all expected to do more with less, but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly low employee engagement numbers indicate otherwise. So, if pushing everyone harder isn't the path to productivity, what is? In his new book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes … [Read more...]