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Good teamwork calls for creating conditions that encourage everyone in the team to share their ideas, feel empowered, and perform in a collaborative and coordinated manner. As a team leader, you are responsible to develop people’s strengths, build good relationships with people, and set meaningful team goals to facilitate it. If you are a team… ...
A month ago, my boss mentioned that everyone on our team is a “Pleaser Achiever”? I have been meaning to write about it ever since. So what is a “Pleaser Achiever”, you may ask? Well, let’s start with a simple quiz When someone comes to you for help at work and your boss tells you you can say… ...
It took me about six years to learn how not to make this mistake at work. In some ways, I am still learning how to avoid it, as my instinct as an engineer and an overachiever is to tell people that I am right when I feel that I am right. You may say, “if you…
Please login to view additional content. (Register here.)We all have worked with smart colleagues that have development areas we see. As humans, we naturally have tendencies to want to help others. It’s important to know when and how to give them feedback that can help them further succeed. Question – How to Give Feedback to a Co-worker? What is the best… ...
Perhaps you have heard the phrase, “Don’t assume, because it makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me.'” While it seems tongue and cheek, it’s very good advice. It’s amazing how we can understand this concept in theory, yet still make unwarranted assumptions at work. I think this happens mostly because we don’t even realize… ...