Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

Studies show that socializing, despite feeling like a daunting task, can be effective in combating mental fatigue by energizing us. Increased energy improves performance and therefore proves socializing to be even more beneficial than the head down work one might prioritize over fostering those connections with colleagues.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

A new study of over 2,000 American office workers found that over 70% experienced some form of unclear communication from their colleagues. In the absence of guidelines, the organization had evolved into an always-on culture with communication taking place 24/7 – and across multiple platforms. The following is what was developed.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Promotion to Management and How to Develop New People Leaders While being promoted to a management role is exciting, many first time people leaders are dismayed by how difficult it can be to lead, manage, and coach teams of people with different roles, skills, attitudes, and desires.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

My collaborators and I conducted a series of six studies (a combination of experiments and surveys) to see how cc’ing influences organizational trust. What they may not realize is how all this surplus communication is eroding the very goals they seek to support through their excess collaboration.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Executives can also work on culture and coaching.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership, or culture. The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: A Study of 1,100 Employees Found That Remote Workers Feel Shunned and Left Out by Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield — “Overall, remote employees may enjoy the freedom to live and work where they please, but working through and with others becomes more challenging.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Consequently read, study, and apply the comprehensive concepts described here. Time Constraints: Managers often have heavy workloads and may feel overwhelmed by their day-to-day responsibilities. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it. Coaching requires time and effort.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

CEB research says that when we take into account how much money organizations are investing in their performance appraisal technology and how much time managers are spending to evaluate their employees, on average U.S. For example, in one of our studies we had participants work on a task for two rounds.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

The power of our devices, even when they’re just silently sitting there, was confirmed recently by a study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. According to the most recent study by the U.S. This back-to-work email dread is very powerful. So we’ve got some work to do on not working.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 That’s the biggest jump since vacation usage started declining in 2000, the study found. vacation days in 2016, up 0.6

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

In our study on flexibility in the modern workforce, we set out to determine whether a gap exists between flexibility supply and demand. In an economy where productivity is stagnant across the board , largely owing to a culture of overwork, flexibility is a key disruptor for improving productivity. These included: Retention.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Below I’ve put together a list of tips to help leaders of all kinds be deliberate with their choices, based largely on my years advising startup founders on product, marketing, and management at Google Ventures — and my subsequent work studying and experimenting with personal time-management techniques for my book Make Time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. Vacations are good for your people, for your team, and for your organization, but somehow vacations have become counter-cultural within our hyper-busy workplaces. Yup, they are blaming you (what’s new?).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

So much depends upon managers. For example, a Gallup study found that at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores is driven by who the boss is. This is disconcerting because the same research found that about 70% of people in management roles are not well equipped for the job. One-on-ones remain vital.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization. “Try to understand the type of culture that this candidate has worked in and her ability to learn and adapt to a new ones,” he says. “There are no right or wrong answers,” he says.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Often the trouble spots arise organically over time, without intention. Glass walls.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

It’s likely that there are “bigger cultural issues” at play; maybe your boss thinks, “If I do it for you, I’m going to have to do it for everybody.” ” The goal is to “remove the burden of making the decision” from one single manager. “Face time in the office is important.”

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