Reading Time: 5 minutes Workplace competition – the friendly type – is a great way to help teammates bond with each other. And when the incentives are appealing enough, employees will be motivated to get involved. Find out how friendly workplace competition promotes team bonding.
Reading Time: 5 minutes 45% of leaders are more upset and emotional than calm and in control in a high-pressure situation. This can adversely affect their employees. Find out why staying calm is critical and get strategies for doing so.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Leadership can take measures to ride out company crises much like white water rafters ride out intense rapids. Knowing your team members, and how they work together, is key. Read about strategies, based on this concept, to steer your organization safely to shore.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Conflict competency is a management skill that involves skillfully handling dissimilarities between co-workers to leverage differences as a catalyst for new ideas. Learn 5 strategies for creating a conflict competent workplace.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Weaponized incompetence is when a worker acts ignorant or incapable to avoid doing certain tasks. Left unchecked, these deceptions threaten harm to company culture. Use these tips to identify and effectively combat strategic incompetence.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Underperforming employees can adversely affect your company. Poor team performance costs businesses an estimated $15.5 million per year on average. Learn 6 of the main reasons why employees underperform – and get solutions to remedy the problem.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Creating an open-minded workplace culture is a highly effective way to improve employee engagement through better teamwork and problem solving. Get details on why it is so effective and tips on how to achieve it.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Workers crave feeling valued. Sadly, only 50% feel they are somewhat valued while 10% feel they aren’t valued at all. Learn 5 effective ways to recognize the value of your employees through mindful company culture.
Reading Time: 4 minutes While you want to be firm in circumventing meeting interruptions, you should avoid coming off as harsh or dismissive. Fortunately, you can use these 6 strategies to politely halt corporate meeting interruptions in their tracks.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Some workplace cultures are incompetent -- meaning they have traits that can produce incompetent employees. This checklist, which covers 7 key indicators of workplace incompetence and how to fix them, is a great starting point to eliminating workplace incompetence: