Mike Figliuolo's Blog, page 56
October 6, 2021
Treat Your People Like Individuals
Treating your people like individuals makes them feel seen and improves their performance. Learn how to develop a maxim for treating your team members as individuals.
No one wants to be treated like a faceless cog in the machine. We all want to be known as individuals. We want to feel like our wants and needs are important, especially to our leaders. The members of your team expect the same of you.
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No one wants to be treated like a faceless cog in the machine. We all want to be known as individuals. We want to feel like our wants and needs are important, especially to our leaders. The members of your team expect the same of you.
Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
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October 4, 2021
Is Trauma Slowly Destroying Your Company? Look for These Signs
Organizational trauma comes in many forms but impacts organizations in predictable, destructive ways. Here’s how to tell if trauma is harming your workplace.
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Diana Hendel, author of Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption and Thriving on the Other Side (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
My understanding of organizational trauma was born of firsthand experience.
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September 30, 2021
How much do you procrastinate when it comes to work tasks?
Our reader poll today asks: How much do you procrastinate when it comes to work tasks?
Not at all: I jump on tasks and never put anything off 10.5%
Somewhat: I’ll put off a few small things occasionally 61.93%
A lot: I put off most things until time becomes critical 22.24%
A ton: I’ll answer this poll later… 5.33%
Beware the avalanche.
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Not at all: I jump on tasks and never put anything off 10.5%
Somewhat: I’ll put off a few small things occasionally 61.93%
A lot: I put off most things until time becomes critical 22.24%
A ton: I’ll answer this poll later… 5.33%
Beware the avalanche.
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September 29, 2021
Defining Your Natural Leadership Style
Learn how to become a more authentic leader by using maxims to define your natural leadership style.
Authenticity is about being who you are. As you begin leading your people, you need to first understand and articulate a natural style that is most comfortable for you. If you’re showing up, putting on the mask every day, and acting in a manner that’s inconsistent with what you believe or what’s most comfortable for you, you’re actually going to set off alarms for the members of your team.
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September 27, 2021
How to Become an A+ Manager Today
Learn how to improve your managerial skills by studying the eight attributes of the employee-centric manager.
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Jack Wiley, author of The Employee-Centric Manager (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
Over the past two decades, the practice of gathering employee feedback on the performance of their managers has grown. And why not? Subordinates have the most knowledge about their manager’s performance, and they are the ones most affected by their behavior.
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Today’s guest post is by Dr. Jack Wiley, author of The Employee-Centric Manager (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
Over the past two decades, the practice of gathering employee feedback on the performance of their managers has grown. And why not? Subordinates have the most knowledge about their manager’s performance, and they are the ones most affected by their behavior.
Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
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September 23, 2021
When mediating conflict where the parties simply will never agree, what do you do?
Our reader poll today asks: When mediating conflict where the parties simply will never agree, what do you do?
Tell them pointedly you don’t see a solution and that they should each go their own direction 24.85%
Work even harder to find a middle ground. There has to be something to do! 34.25%
Call for assistance from a more skilled mediator 30.90%
Hope they see it’s an intractable situation and decide to end things on their own 10.00%
Call it quits or call for help?
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Tell them pointedly you don’t see a solution and that they should each go their own direction 24.85%
Work even harder to find a middle ground. There has to be something to do! 34.25%
Call for assistance from a more skilled mediator 30.90%
Hope they see it’s an intractable situation and decide to end things on their own 10.00%
Call it quits or call for help?
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September 22, 2021
Accepting Your Team’s Failures
The way you react to failure has a big impact on your team’s future performance and culture. Make sure you handle failures constructively.
As much as we like to celebrate success, there are going to be failures. They’re not fun and they can derail a team if you don’t handle the failure well. When there is failure, the first thing to remember is to avoid blame. Turn it into a learning opportunity.
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As much as we like to celebrate success, there are going to be failures. They’re not fun and they can derail a team if you don’t handle the failure well. When there is failure, the first thing to remember is to avoid blame. Turn it into a learning opportunity.
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September 20, 2021
Is Your Executive Team Stressed? Then Move!
Our brains are under constant assault from stressors. To reduce the amount of stress you feel and to improve your resilience, move. Move around physically. Exercise. Walk while on conference calls. Move. Movement has huge benefits in terms of stress reduction and resilience.
Today’s guest post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS principal and author of Hijacked by Your Brain.
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September 16, 2021
How do you react when someone is overly-critical of your work?
Our reader poll today asks: How do you react when someone is overly-critical of your work?
I seek to fully understand any and all feedback I receive: 32.63%
I look for major issues but tend to ignore smaller criticisms: 45.46%
I tend to be dismissive of what feels like overly critical remarks: 17.64%
I blow it off.
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I seek to fully understand any and all feedback I receive: 32.63%
I look for major issues but tend to ignore smaller criticisms: 45.46%
I tend to be dismissive of what feels like overly critical remarks: 17.64%
I blow it off.
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September 15, 2021
Building High Performing Teams: Celebrating Success
Improve your team’s culture by celebrating your team members’ successes. Be careful, though…one person’s reward is another person’s punishment.
Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things.
There are a lot of great ways to acknowledge success. You can give people bonuses, provide them visibility opportunities, do some public recognition, give people increased responsibilities, and even promotions.
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Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things.
There are a lot of great ways to acknowledge success. You can give people bonuses, provide them visibility opportunities, do some public recognition, give people increased responsibilities, and even promotions.
Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
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