Building Healthy Relationships At Work

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‘Individual well-being begins with a personal plan; small steps lead to big changes.’

‘Psychological well-being at work goes beyond safety to include autonomy, a sense of purpose, compassion, and kindness.’

‘Building Trusted Teams begins with recognizing and dealing with structural and cultural barriers to change.’

‘Safety, empathy, and trust are elementary, and must be deliberately grown and nurtured as part of teamwork.‘

‘Strengthening your human skills at work begins with understanding your own mindset and how your intelligence and emotions work together to direct what you do.’

‘Strong relationships enable people to work well together, not despite their differences, but because they leverage their different strengths.‘

‘Well-being goes beyond wellness, and honoring differences is one way to design well-being directly into work.’

‘A work style is the sum of temperament, beliefs, skills, habits, and all the choices you make through a day that guide your behavior.’

‘Blending human cognition with human emotion creates the skills of the future.’

‘Strong relationships are built on understanding what persona you project, and what others perceive.’

‘Taking deliberate small steps, like a weeklong digital detox, can return us to greater control over our technology use.’

Source:

Jen Fisher and Anh Phillips (2021). Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines

The 10 Most Overlooked Definitions In Leadership

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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What do they mean to you?

‘Leadership means telling the world why a company exists- its purpose- and describing a vision for how that purpose will be achieved.’

‘An organization’s culture is so much more than a slogan or poster. Culture is nothing less than the aggregate of tens of thousands of interactions and decisions every day. … Creating a culture means choosing a limited number of values that define the company as surely as its products or logo do, and then encouraging expression of those values in everyday behavior.’

‘Authenticity means people are living the same company culture that the CEO describes and that the HR department claims in job descriptions.’

‘Appreciation means recognizing work well done. It’s a subjective expression in the same way one ‘appreciates’ a work of art or a clever solution to a work problem.’

‘Engagement at work is the willingness to give discretionary effort to a job. It means voluntarily doing more than the minimum. It is an attitude confirmed by behavior.’

‘Empowerment transfers the power to achieve results from the manager to the employee.’

‘To manage is to choose among multiple options, and business situations inevitably cause a manager to choose in the moment between, for example, customer satisfaction and greater efficiency.’

‘Gamification means adding elements of game design or game mechanics to nongame contexts. In the workplace, it could include elements like awarding points for hitting milestones and competing for prizes.’

‘Commitment without alignment means wasted effort (and frustration). Alignment without commitment means wasted potential (and employee turnover). Recognition singles out great performance (commitment) that focuses on strategic goals (alignment).’

‘Measurement means relevance. Without it, any project tends to justify itself.’

Source:

Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine (2014). The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work