Leadership
An Executive’s Guide to OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Framework
Setting ambitious goals is easy, but reaching them is 10X harder. When that goal is divided across multiple people, the track to success can get even longer. So how do you keep your teams aligned on the same goal and ensure that their everyday work positively contributes towards a larger end-goal? You can try the OKR framework.
Toxic Leadership at the Workplace: What Makes a Leader Toxic?
When it comes to leadership, the general idea is to often discuss aspects such as what makes a good leader or how can a leader be effective at the workplace? However, when following the bandwagon of leadership topics, many people fail to discuss or even acknowledge one of the biggest ailments’ employees suffer at the workplace in the form of toxic leadership. In order to understand not only leadership but the failure of employees to deliver, it is important to analyze toxic leadership at the workplace or the factors which make a toxic leader? This can help better understand if a failure of leadership is to blame for the lackluster performance of employees at the workplace.
Employee Engagement: 6 Strategies That Work
Employee engagement is challenging to get right, but expensive to get wrong. Lack of proactive care and attention towards your team directly impacts your company’s operational effectiveness. It’s time to get proactive with employee engagement. In this article, we will review some of the employee engagement strategies that work.
A Manager’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication
People are promoted to management positions for a variety of reasons. For many, they rise to the top because of their knowledge, technical skills, and decision-making capabilities. As a manager, your effectiveness also strongly depends on your ability to communicate well with your team members and other stakeholders. Here is a quick guide on Interpersonal Communication for Managers.
Micromanagement: Signals to Avoid It and Become a Better Leader
Micromanagement can turn your company into a toxic workplace that good employees abandon. Most leaders realize this, but few take proactive action towards addressing this issue. How bad is micromanagement? Let’s dig deeper into the matter together.
Leadership Styles: What Type of Style Should You Adopt?
Being a good corporate leader is both art and science. On one hand, you need to experiment and often use your gut feeling to decide on how you should behave in one situation or another. On the other hand, without a solid leadership methodology, all your efforts may result in minimal impact. So let’s take a closer look at the different types of leadership styles, formalized by social scientists, along with explanations on when each of them works best at the workplace.