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Tag: Managing People
When Someone You Manage Isn’t Following the Return-to-Office Policy
How to strike a balance between enforcing company mandates and supporting the needs of your team.
When Your Star Employee Leaves
How to help your team cope with the shock, sadness, and stress.
4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them
Advice backed by three decades of research into thousands of team conflicts around the world.
Does Your Organization Have the Energy to Transform?
How managers can measure and manage their company’s capacity for change.
Research: When Employees Identify with Their Company, They’re Less Likely to Recognize Gender Discrimination
Beware the “not here” bias.
Before You Start Collaborating with Someone, Talk About Your Work Styles
Having an explicit conversation about your preferences will set the relationship up for success.
5 Strategies for Improving Mental Health at Work
Benefits and conversations around mental health evolved during the pandemic. Workplace cultures are starting to catch up.
Crisis Leadership Lessons from Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton
Discover lessons in building a team, learning from bad bosses, and cultivating empathy.
Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy
A study reveals surprising differences between displaying an average score or individual reviews.
4 Reasons Why Managers Fail
Nearly half of all managers report buckling under the stress of their role and struggling to deliver.
How to Make Tough Decisions as a Manager
There’s no formula for the difficult moments managers face, but there are questions you should consider.
6 Mistakes Leaders Make When Announcing Layoffs
There’s no way to sugarcoat the bad news. But you can deliver it with respect and compassion.
5 Well-Intentioned Behaviors That Can Hurt Your Team
How to tell if your efforts to be supportive are actually counterproductive.
When You Make the Leap to Manager
Organizational behavior expert Alison Wood Brooks takes questions from listeners who are struggling as first-time bosses.
Research Roundup: How the Pandemic Changed Management
Lessons from 69 articles published in top management and applied psychology journals.
Surveilling Employees Erodes Trust — and Puts Managers in a Bind
Research offers three ways leaders can navigate the benefits and backlash of using electronic monitoring systems.
Companies Can Win by Reducing Overwork
A conversation with University of Georgia professor Malissa Clark dispelling myths about workaholism.
It’s Time to Redefine Our Gendered Idea of “Ambition”
Rather than enforcing a binary point of view — you’re either climbing up the ladder or stepping aside — skillful managers don’t equate pace with potential.
How to Talk to Your Team About a Decision You Disagree With
Upper management sometimes makes choices you don’t like. How can you navigate your disappointment with grace and resilience?