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Harvard Business Review
According to a recent Harvard Business Review cover story, it’s rarely useful to give feedback to colleagues. The authors argue that constructive criticism won’t help people excel and that, when you highlight someone’s shortcomings, you actually hinder their learning. They say that managers should encourage employees to worry less about their weaknesses and instead focus on their strengths.
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Associations Now
Sure, work stress is a fact of life, and it may be unavoidable when there’s a tough-to-digest project or a staffing crunch. But, as a manager, what can you do to ensure that the daily grind is a little more manageable for everyone? Here are a few ideas.
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HR Technologist
We have all been there, where we are given a task or leave a meeting and have no idea what to do next. It’s quite common. According to the statistics, 57% of employees report not being given clear directions and 69% of managers are not comfortable communicating with the employees in general. From the statistics, it is clear that there is a need to improve communication in the workplace. But first things first — what is workplace communication?
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Policy is important across all fire department operations, but there are specific areas where a lack of sound policy creates greater risk. Discover the 5 policy “hot spots” that could be creating trouble for your department and your personnel. DOWNLOAD NOW
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By Simma Lieberman
Great leaders know how to find and leverage the brilliance in their organization. They know how to go beyond the “usual suspects,” and bring out the best work from people who may not be seen, "popular," or outspoken. They are the hidden geniuses.
Are you missing the hidden geniuses in your organization? Who are these hidden geniuses?
They are on the down low; their brilliance and creativity go unrecognized. They are potential game-changers, innovators and revolutionary thinkers once discovered.
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Fire Chief
Company officers play a vital role in the fire service, supervising the line firefighters on the crew, implementing the policies from the chief officers above and serving as the critical connection between the two groups. Due to this “serving up and down” model, company officers tend to have their hands in all aspects of department process and culture.
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Is your department still managing incidents with a pen and paper or a white board? Tablet Command is a cloud-based incident management system used on an iPad or Smartphone. Watch this 90 Second Video to learn why fire departments across the country rely on Tablet Command.
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Entrepreneur
Contradiction lies at the very foundation of our existence. Competing forces shape almost every aspect of our lives: masculine and feminine, progression and decline, independence and interdependence, spiritual and material.
This is true in a business sense as well. Stakeholders compete with shareholders, economic impacts are weighed against environmental impacts, and priorities differ between short-term growth and long-term sustainability.
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Forbes
Have you ever been in a situation at work where you felt like you lost your cool? Maybe not in that wildly out of control way, but enough to where you felt bad about what you said or did and wished you’d handled yourself differently?
You got hooked or upset and before you knew it, you were doing something that you wouldn’t necessarily do if you were in your right mind.
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Skip Prichard Leadership Insights
With so much focus on engagement, you would think that the statistics would dramatically improve. Instead, most of the surveys show employees are not fully engaged. Why is this, and what can be done about it?
In her book, Employee Confidence: The New Rules of Engagement, Karen J. Hewitt argues that employee confidence and engagement are intertwined. The difference maker in engagement is confidence.
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Workforce
Relationships are complex, particularly so at work since employees have limited control over who they interact with.
While there’s no shortage of advice on how to deal with matters of the heart, working relationships are rarely discussed until it becomes painfully obvious they’re not working. In a study of what makes a manager effective, the quality of their relationships was found to make the biggest difference to their success.
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