Source: Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership
In fact, one study found that the number of people who say they cannot concentrate at their desk has increased by 16 percent since 2008. Also startling: The number of workers who say they do not have access to quiet places to do focused work is up by 13 percent.
Start-ups and companies these days are prone to offering in-office perks, but studies show that just because there is a pool table and a latte dispenser in your break room, doesn’t mean that office productivity will go up.
Source: The Most Innovative Companies of the 2018 Inc. 5000 | Inc.com
To be successful in most organizations, it’s important to understand the underlying conversations and reactions that people in the room are having. But if you aren’t picking up on those subtle cues, how can you learn to do so?
Source: Tips for Reading the Room Before a Meeting or Presentation
Consider the emotional work of leadership. While leaders might have direct control over the day-to-day responsibilities of their direct reports, they also have a major impact on the group’s collective emotional condition.
As a leader you want to do everything you can to make your team effective and productive. Are you paying attention to how your emotions may be playing into this process?
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Do you love your work? Is it an adventure?
Here’s a guy who spent eight years measuring brain activity while people worked in order to identify the components of workplace culture that make work an adventure. This was preceded by a decade of doing laboratory studies to understand the brain basis for effective teamwork. Find out the two things that most make a difference here:
Source: How Oxytocin Can Make Your Job More Meaningful | Greater Good Magazine
Frequently, when profits or subscriptions go down, an inexperienced boss will make a choice based on the assumption that someone is to blame for the loss. An experienced boss knows to keep asking “why?” In this short talk, my colleague and friend Mark Brown discusses a masterful business tool that helps leaders to understand the root cause of a workplace issue.
“Next time you go to a traditional networking event, a cocktail party, or a dinner, do us all a favor: Lose the elevator pitch. That approach is quickly losing relevancy in making authentic connections that could open doors for you.”
Source: 6 Things Smart People Do to Have Really Interesting Conversations | Inc.com
Source: 5 Ways To Tell Your Boss No Without Actually Saying No
The conventional wisdom about 21st century skills holds that students need to master the STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and math — and learn to code as well because that’s where the jobs are. It turns out that is a gross simplification of what students need to know and be able to do, and some proof for that comes from a surprising source: Google.
There’s very little more soul-crushing than when you don’t feel respected and valued at work. I’d venture to say that over the portfolio of our career, we all will experience, at a minimum, pockets of lack of respect.
University of Michigan Professor Jane Dutton says that an astounding 90 percent of workers polled say lack of basic respect in the workplace is a big issue.
Want More Respect at Work? Try This 1 Simple Framework | Inc.com