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Everyone needs one, you’re supposed to read it on your first day, but after your eyes cross from flipping through a bunch of pages in a binder that all look the same, is it any wonder that people tend to forget about them until something goes wrong?
Workplaces should be much more straightforward, based on agreed-upon practices, and hopefully less emotionally intertwined.
There are so many simple, effective things you can do to get your team’s culture back on track.
Making generalizations about generations is always going to require painting with some broad brushstrokes –– but I have noticed some trends about managers lately that seem to be holding true across many of the businesses I work with.
Engagement and retention have been top concerns for companies over the past several years, and it looks like they’ll remain issues for some time to come. While some of the factors impacting the way people stay or go in their careers is out of your control, you actually have a lot more power in this area than you might think.
The only thing worse is when you give someone feedback and they sit there, smile and nod, and tell you they’ll be sure to keep it in mind ... only for you to find out weeks or months later they just ignored you and kept on doing things how they wanted to do them.
We all know how important it is to work from a set of shared values –– it’s one of the most powerful predictive factors for employee engagement and high performance, plus, it encourages a sense of camaraderie and makes being at work much more enjoyable.