A lot supervisors and managers have no formal training in leadership.
And to be completely honest, a lot of times it shows.
However, being a decent boss requires no rocket science, brain surgery or sorcery. In fact, all you need to do is develop these 17 little habits.
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We’ve heard it a thousand times before.
"People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers."
I’m sure you can recall that one manager from your past who you just couldn’t stand.
And no amount of perks, extra vacation or even salary would be able to compensate that demoralising feeling of having to show up at the office each day.
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People are the number one resource in every company. Very specific and rare skills are becoming more and more important, leading to an amplified need for multidisciplinary and ever-developing teams that can efficiently address a multitude of needs. For a leader, oiling this machine is the number one priority.
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The results are in and companies with a more engaged workforce have nearly doubled their odds of success compared to those with an actively disengaged workforce.
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Hanna Vuorikoski knows what it takes to succeed when it comes to employee engagement. As HR Director at Sanoma Media Finland, a media company whose brands reach 97% of Finns every week, Hanna is driven to create a culture that champions the employee, all 1800 of them, at a company that generates close to 600M€ in net sales. Prior to working at Sanoma, Hanna was HR Director at Nordcloud, the fastest growing technology company in Finland, and spent over 10 years working in multiple HR roles at Accenture across the Nordics.
According to Hanna, success starts by putting the employee at the heart of your strategy, so we caught up with her to hear more of her thoughts on all things employee engagement in the enterprise.
Harvard Business review published (June 2017) an article from Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman where the examination of 360-degree assessment data from more than 60,000 leaders showed that only 13% of the them can both drive business results and create an engaged, fun-to-work team. By further deep-diving into the data set they found that six behaviours were common to these high performers:
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I earlier wrote about how poor employee engagement has the power to kill your business, but implementing truly effective initiatives and programs is easier said than done. Happy employees are the key to business success and having a team of people who feel truly valued will in turn lead to colleagues who will work hard, deliver results, and bring in new ideas to help grow your business and stay in the company.
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Poor employee engagement has the power to kill your business but you can take action to fight that power. Is there an easy way to boost employee engagement?
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Effective leadership is all about communication. It is about supporting your staff by answering the right questions in the right way. Better communication is the way to improved employee engagement and better profitability. More communication is not always better communication. There are certain kind of answers you should not give or you risk reducing employee engagement. Here’s a list of four types of answers that make you a bad leader.
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“Happy, happy employees are the key to business success!” Uh, I know, right? Feels like there’s been more than enough of the one-sided discussion around employee happiness and job satisfaction? Feels like everyone has bought into the hype, blasting how important it is to make sure your employees are happy and engaged? When did work become all about fun?
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