Leadership

The power of team motivation

Motivation is an ongoing process featuring both big, dramatic moments, and a lot of smaller, more subtle ones. Understanding all these different ways motivation can work is essential for keeping your team productive, happy, and engaged.

· 10 min read

Leadership

How to become an effective manager: 11 proven strategies shared by our experts

Employees who report to effective managers are over 15 times more likely to be high performers. They’re also more than three times more likely to stay at their job.

· 11 min read

Great leaders must make an effort to continuously learn to control their ego.
Leadership

New manager training tips and strategies to master the art of management

What does it take to be an effective manager? It’s a question many in the management field have been asking, with increasing urgency, over the past few years.

· 11 min read

Leadership

The 6 essential leadership practices for success

What is a good leader actually doing that makes them so effective? Although good leadership is certainly a talent, it can still be taught and developed.

· 9 min read

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Company Culture

Evolving the scrum: Creating cohesive engineering teams despite distance 

The engineering field is resolute, assured of its abilities, even as modern scrum teams face challenges that force us to revisit some long-codified credos.

Suzy ELFishawy · 10 min read

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People Management

Level up your leadership with these 10 management best practices.

Struggling to hit or maintain your team goals? Here are 10 management best practices to help you motivate and retain your people.

David Silbert · 9 min read

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Company Culture

Become a better leader by developing these 18 essential traits.

Amid a shifting workplace landscape, one constant is the importance of effective leadership. With so many aspects of work now in flux, the difference a good leader can make may be greater than ever.

· 19 min read

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Company Culture

How to boost team morale and motivate your people

Employee morale may describe how satisfied employees are with their work, their level of happiness or motivation, or their enthusiasm or engagement, among other traits. 

· 20 min read

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Employee Engagement

35 manager survey questions for employees: A 2023 guide

Manager survey questions offer a valuable opportunity to solicit employee feedback, and effectively improve manager performance.

Ashley McCann · 14 min read

A group of people collaborating to discover their business team type.
Leadership

The 5 communication styles and how to use them effectively

Understanding the different communication styles of our team members builds trust, improves interpersonal skills, and enables efficient and effective decision making.

· 11 min read

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Leadership

The signs of micromanaging: How to spot them, so you can stop them

Micromanagement fuels resentment and negativity—and who wants to work in an office like that? True leaders are constantly seeking to improve themselves, which means enhancing their self-awareness.

· 11 min read

Business Strategy

5 best practices for running an effective catch-up meeting

Meetings are essential to a team’s communication, collaboration, and effectiveness. But with so many different kinds of meetings out there, from one-on-one meetings to all hands meetings, how do you know which one is the most effective for your needs?

· 8 min read

New Frontier of AI in the workplace
Company Culture

A new frontier: What HR teams should know about AI in the workplace

Companies are playing perpetual catch-up when it comes to understanding not only who’s using AI tools, but the ramifications of how they’re using them.

Andrew Barks · 8 min read

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Employee Engagement

A human energy crisis: How you can help your most important resource recharge

What does a human energy crisis mean for the world of work? It’s a question that is becoming top of mind for business leaders everywhere.

Harry Davis · 5 min read

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Company Culture

New-year meeting ideas to jumpstart the year

A new-year meeting can shake off the new year nerves, reacquaint coworkers, and align the entire team on the company mission and goals for the upcoming year. 

· 14 min read