Seven Steps for Leading a Successful Team Project
Being the leader of a team that works to complete an important project can be one of the most pivotal moments in your tenure at a company. Stakes are high – you need to impress your boss, govern your peers, and produce a result that meets or exceeds expectations. While you may feel equipped to […]
Five Surprising Trends Shaping the Future of Hybrid Work
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the globe, business leaders have been speculating as to whether the sudden switch to remote work would have long lasting ramifications after the pandemic. Well, it’s the future – “after the pandemic” has finally arrived. As economies have opened back up, many businesses have committed to bringing their […]
What Shouldn’t I Say in a Performance Review? Avoiding Biases
Human biases are not only a habit, but a necessity. We use them to rapidly assess environments, and we often find these quick assumptions to be accurate.
OKR Sins – Six Common Mistakes Made When Using OKRs
The OKR (Objectives and Key Results) method is a popular and efficient way to guide a workforce into achieving a long term goal for a company. By setting an Objective (a broad mission statement) and several Key Results (shorter, measurable assignments) great strides can be made in a quick and organized manner. The method seems […]
Examples of Great OKRs From Different Industries
OKRs (Objectives-Key Results) are a remarkably helpful method to help roll out long term goals for a workplace. While laying out a list of tasks to your staff can be effectively comprehensive, they may end up overtaking each other in importance and clouding the main mission statement of your business. Instead, OKRs take the most […]
The OKR Method for Goals and Why You Should Use It
There’s nothing more important when managing a team than setting specific goals for them to work towards. These goals, however, come in vastly different forms. Your staff can have trouble focusing on accomplishing tasks when one goal is set for the end of the quarter, one is waiting at the end of the week, and […]
The Summer of Travel – How to Prepare for Employee PTO
It’s finally coming to a close. Millions of newly vaccinated Americans are saying goodbye to quarantine and moving forward in a society that gets to call itself, “post-COVID-19”. While this is an incredible milestone for 2021, there’s one side effect that has employers a bit concerned about the summer: vacation time & PTO. The pandemic’s […]
How Learning Management Systems Can Save Your Team’s Performance
When it comes to training employees, onboarding and continual learning programs are the seeds that grow forests of productivity. Companies have spent decades trying to engineer their own learning materials and techniques… with varying degrees of success. There have been all sorts of methods of teaching workers what they need to know for their jobs, […]
Six Fun Games to Play With Your Remote Staff
While there are numerous advantages to utilizing a remote workforce to operate and run your company, one of the biggest drawbacks is the loss of the sense of community you get from working together in person. If video conference meetings are the closest your staff gets to interactive teamwork, you may have to go a […]
Seven reasons your workplace should be built upon communication
Communication between the management team and the workforce is absolutely vital to the success of any organization. What becomes an obstacle, however, is not the company’s capability to communicate between themselves – it’s their commitment to it. Too often you’ll find a company that believes scheduling meetings and sending out daily newsletters can substitute for […]