Leaders should want to be surprised, because surprise means you are leading others to their best performance.
Performance evaluations can be inspiring or infuriating. The leader’s work will determine the outcome.
Operations have returned to normal, but life at home is definitely not normal for many people. Leaders allow people flexibility to balance work and life. Great leaders inspire a cohesive unit climate even while some people work remotely and others carry on as usual.
To effectively guard work-life balance, leaders need to be aware of their workers’ lives away from work. Too many organizations pretend employees have no life outside the workplace. During these trying times, work has never been more present in people’s homes, so leaders cannot limit their attention to the office.
Leaders who care for people as they struggle to manage professional and parental responsibilities at home will foster better organizational performance than those who demand business as usual.
Can four work days be better than five? It’s a question worth asking. Even if you don’t have the authority to direct a shift to a four-day work week, this book will help you think about how you and your people spend your time.
Deciding between a vision of normal life, or of a new and different life, is every leader’s challenge during a global pandemic. Leading others to a sense of normalcy can be reassuring, but it can also be dangerous. Perhaps the best way to achieve our normal purpose is to embrace new attitudes and behaviors.
Lead people through these trying times by building a shared understanding of the present and inspiring a shared, livable vision of the near future. This is a leader’s work, and it’s never been more necessary than right now.
We’ve adopted an incorrect belief that desk work is the opposite of good leadership. Skill with the basic software of office work will make you a better communicator – and help you spend less time in front of a computer.
We usually think carefully about what to do or how to do it, but we seldom think about when to do it. Our relative carelessness with time and timing means we miss out on potential performance or even set ourselves up to make mistakes.
I hope you never find yourself working for a toxic boss. But if you do, break the glass on this article. Help your coworkers deal with the negative emotions and work to achieve mission success despite the toxic boss.
A leader courageous enough to pursue an ideal will frequently be reminded of their own shortcoming. Great leaders must deal with the pain of finding out they are not the leader they want to be or even thought they were.