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HR manager talks with employee

5 inspiring human resources quotes for HR professionals

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As a leader, you should always strive for continuous learning and personal development. One smart habit to adopt is a morning routine: highest achievers have one. Try waking up early to begin the day with positive thoughts and some reading to help you improve yourself. Here are five inspirational HR quotes to get your day…

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A calm manager talks to an employee

Is calmness a foundational management trait?

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Victor Lipman is a management trainer and author. His online course on Udemy is The Manager’s Mindset and his book is “The Type B Manager.” He has more than 20 years of Fortune 500 management experience. He contributes regularly to Forbes and Psychology Today, and his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review. I recently wrote…

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Don't be afraid to ask your underperforming employee tough questions

5 questions to ask your underperforming employee

5 min read

Underperformance can stem from many issues. Unclear expectations from management, poor cultural fit, and a lack of constructive feedback are just a few. Underperforming employees prevent your company from meeting its business goals. They can also dampen the rest of the team’s spirits. Bad energy is contagious. As a manager, you know you need to…

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workplace book club books

Be a great manager with these 12 leadership books.

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12 leadership and team management books that have had the biggest impact on the way I manage and lead.

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47' brand leader

The one trait all great leaders must possess

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To become a great leader you must take control over one major part of yourself: your ego. Keeping your ego in check is a lifelong pursuit.  As Charles Duhigg explained in his book “The Power of Habit,” our bodies naturally want us to create habitual behaviors. Basically, our brains try to find the most efficient way…

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Not all millennials are the same

How to manage different generations at work

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The American workforce comprises people from five different generations. At many companies, 20-somethings work alongside much older workers in similar roles. You might worry that differing attitudes toward work can cause a generational divide among your employees. And when leadership doesn’t understand how to manage different generations, this rift can and does happen. But a…

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Office plants like this one reduce employee stress.

5 office plants that can reduce employee stress

5 min read

Stress in the workplace is common. According to the American Institute of Stress, 80 percent of workers experience on-the-job stress. What’s more, 40 percent of employees said their job is “very” or “extremely” stressful. As a manager, you want your people to be happy and engaged—not tense and checked out. You’ll be glad to know…

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manager evaluation form on a computer

8 questions that need to be on every manager evaluation form

5 min read

No one has a more immediate impact on employee engagement, productivity, and workplace satisfaction than direct managers of staff. Yet, most performance evaluation models are top-down—employees receive feedback from the people they report to, but managers rarely receive feedback from the people they manage. In fact, many companies don’t utilize manager evaluation forms at all. Good employees…

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At the heart of "how to run an effective meeting" is strategy.

How to run an effective meeting

6 min read

Think about the worst meeting you ever attended. Maybe one person monopolized the conversation and spoke ad nauseum about a topic that wasn’t important to everyone else. Perhaps the meeting started 10 minutes late because the previous group ran over their time slot. Or your facilitator struggled, in vain, to get the conferencing software to launch. Whatever…

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Managing millennials in the workplace means providing a variety of work stations to choose from.

You need to be flexible when managing millennials in the workplace.

3 min read

If you’re a manager, there’s a good chance you manage a millennial. According to Pew Research Center—and data from the U.S. Census Bureau—millennials make up 35 percent of the American workforce. When you view that workforce as a pie, millennials own the largest slice. Pew defines the millennial generation as anyone born between 1981 and…

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Good employees leave bad managers

Good employees leave bad managers with these 4 traits.

5 min read

If you don’t yet have access to an employee experience survey, read on to discover four reasons why good employees leave bad managers.

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Manager sits behind desk at office

The traits of great managers (a data-driven analysis)

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We recently released the results of a study of 5,000+ employees about their perspectives on their managers. From it, we gleaned some amazing findings, all of which can be found in our People Management Study report. I had the chance to have a conversation with Craig Weber, author of Conversational Capacity, to talk about our…

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Meeting room discussion

The art of giving feedback

4 min read

Feedback is a little like management oxygen – we tend not to think much about it and take it for granted but when it’s absent we quickly encounter problems. We know feedback is an important element of management, and I’ve written about it on occasion, but I can’t say I’d seen a lot of insightful…

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