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Too many managers want their employees to be self-sufficient with minimal attention to keep them going. No wonder so many employees are disengaged.
Read more: How Engaging Are You? We stay where it's safe for fear of failing, feeling humiliated and looking bad. Self-limiting beliefs are a self-imposed prison, walls we build and maintain to protect ourselves. How can we break out?
Read more: What Are Your Self-Limiting Beliefs? People are quiet in meetings because they can't think of any content to offer. Suggesting solutions is the only form of contribution they recognize. Why not contribute as a catalyst instead?
Read more: How To Contribute More In Meetings Recent research suggests that a sense of making progress is a powerful motivator. Unfortunately, setbacks knock us down much more than progress drives us forward.
Read more: Are You Making Progress? We lead by example whether we mean to or not, thanks to the old saying "actions speak louder than words." But how do we know what sort of example we're setting?
Read more: What Example Are You Setting? We think of assertiveness in adversarial terms: how to defend ourselves against someone using strong-arm tactics to influence us. How about a more constructive, win-win approach?
Read more: Collaborative Assertiveness If you enjoyed Questions for Success, here are some more engaging questions useful for a variety of purposes. They are all open questions, designed to stimulate others to open up.
Read more: More Engaging Questions Contrary to popular wisdom, playing to your strengths is not always a good idea. For example, managers who are good problem solvers could fail to engage employees in problem solving by playing to this strength.
Read more: Should You Always Play To Your Strengths? Some managers find it extremely difficult to give negative feedback to their team members. It is even harder for employees to give such feedback to their boss. How can feedback be made easier?
Read more: How To Give And Receive Feedback As a manager you're in the spotlight. Who is watching to see if you will fly or flop? How's your confidence in this fishbowl?
It's hard to be sure of yourself in a complex, rapidly changing world. Much easier to feel uncertain, to duck key decisions or to blame slip-ups on others.
Read more: How's Your Confidence Today?We have 17 guests online
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