Asa manager, it’s important to keep the lines of communication open and to gather information that will help you be more effective. There are some general questions managers should ask about direct reports’ well-being and job effectiveness, but the frequency at which you bring up these questi...
Your expectations as a manager should be high but reasonable. You want to think about the old fable “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” here: if expectations are too low, employees won’t feel challenged. If they’re too high, they will feel discouraged. Work to get them closer to “just...
As you invest more time talking to your valued employees, what you get back in these answers may give you tremendous insights into what they enjoy about their work and company. Ask follow up probing questions as you listen. Why does something in particular motivate them? Is it a...
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Essentially, responsible innovation requires organizations to contemplate hard questions upfront. Here are five questions tech leaders should ask to steward intentional and responsible innovation. 1. What are we inventing? Early-stage tech innovation always feels too small to mean anything. People are ...
Leading a remote team might be the new norm, but that doesn't mean it's easy. I asked three leaders of remote teams a simple question. "Why is leading a remote team so difficult?" Adam Shuford, sales manager at Abbott, said it's "because it's convenient to take the easy route an...
Next up, we’ve got some powerful bonus content for you. We set out to answer a vital question: If given the chance, what questions should employees (including leaders) ask their CEO? Over 30 CEOs were kind enough to give us their valuable insights. Many of them are CEOs of INC 500 ...
Innovation leaders and business executives on the bimodal journey should ask three questions when pursuing something new: (1) Does this idea have value? (2) What shape should it take? (3) How do I scale this idea? The order of the questions matters. This research explores why. ...
When a pastor (or any leader) considers a move to a new church setting or any leader considers a new job, he or she should do whatever is possible to define reality. As Max Dupree, leadership guru and writer said, “The first job of a leader is to define reality.” ...
EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2023 speaker, Rahaf Harfoush discusses how, with AI’s rise, business leaders can imagine new ways of working. In brief Leaders tend to focus on the surface changes big disruptive technologies will bring to the business. They often overlook the deepe...