There is a clear difference between high performing teams and high functioning teams. Put simply, many high performing teams are not necessarily high functioning. They achieve what they achieve through effort, blood, sweat and frequently tears. Performance in these organisations is exhausting, often stressful, there is fall out and discontent.
How important is the relationship I have with my team? Pretty vital I’d say! But what does that really mean? How well does my team need to know me? What’s that balance between being familiar, one of the team and being professional, being their boss? These are valuable questions to ponder.
Harvard has recently published a number of papers with some interesting titles. They include the following: Sleep Deprivation Can Make It Harder to Stay Calm at Work Time for Happiness Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies Treat Your Weekend Like a Vacation Prevent Burnout by Making Compassion a Habit Stressed at Work? Mentoring a Colleague Could Help The Pros and Cons of Perfectionism What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others How CEOs Manage Time Are New Graduates Happier Making More Money or Having More Time? The titles alone make interesting reading, providing lots of food for thought.
We think that building personal resilience is a management foundation skill. During your management career you are going to face many stressors, both people and situations that are going to test you, potentially to the limit. Being able to ride these storms doesn’t happen by chance, it is a skill you can develop.
So you have been promoted or have just got that new management job. Well done. Here are 5 management tips for you that I wish I had been told in those early days. There is of course loads of things that would be helpful to tell you, but Rome wasn’t built in a day, so these five make a great starting point.
It’s a pain isn’t it? You’ve just had a great holiday, managed to switch off pretty well and now you’ve just walked into hundreds if not thousands of emails. There’s a todo list that’s overwhelming you and all those balls that you were juggling before your break are now rolling around on the floor waiting for you to pick them up.
Lessons from an over busy diary It’s 0345hr, my alarm is going off and I cant help asking myself is this sustainable? Two days ago I arrived late at the hotel and crashed into bed. A restless night had me up slightly too early, my day had started.
Why intimacy is a big deal when managing remote team workers and what to do about it. Intimacy doesn’t seem like a very professional word does it? It is, however, a crucial idea when we are managing remote team workers. The Google dictionary suggests its definition is a ‘close familiarity or friendship’.
I’ve never been one to suffer badly with back pain. The really painful stuff has only happened to me a few times over my near 55 years. Memorably the first time I experienced debilitating back pain it was caused pulling my socks on, on my 30th birthday! Prior to that experience I had carried around woeful, youthful disdain, belittling the grumblings of others over their sore backs.
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