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Layoffs: How To Conduct Them Properly And Potentially Avoid Them Altogether

HR Tech Girl

I’ve been managing people and budgets for over 20 years, and I was a CFO in 2008 when the recession hit and we had to drastically cut the company budget. Offer outplacement services As part of the severance package, consider offering outplacement services such as career coaching, resume writing, and job search assistance.

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33 Key Leadership Competencies for Effective Leadership

Vantage Circle

Managers today face many new challenges. They need to provide continuous coaching and manage remote workers. SHRM issued a report in 2008 on "Changing Leadership Strategies" The report states increased competition as the main reason for these changes. One of them is being a good coach.

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The Many Benefits of Coaching Employees

Workplace Psychology

Coaching is helping another person reach higher levels of effectiveness by creating a dialogue that leads to awareness and action.” In the classic coaching book, Coaching for Performance (2009), the late John Whitmore described numerous benefits of coaching. Greater flexibility and adaptability to change.

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A Surefire Way to Build Widespread Collaboration Across Your Organization

Conversation Matters

I have found Peer-Coaching to be the most effective answer. It increases collaboration by bringing together small groups of 4-6 employees, in ninety-minute coaching sessions that occur over several weeks. It began peer coaching in 2008. Fujitsu group in Japan is a good example. Pretty impressive! . . .

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Why Organizations Need More Star Followers and Less Yes People

Workplace Psychology

Indeed, most people hold a negative view of followership (Kelley, 2008). However, conversations about leadership must include followership “because leaders neither exist nor act in a vacuum without followers” (Kelley, 2008, p. This reduces the transaction costs that hinder organizational success” (Kelley, 2008, p. Kelley, R.

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Characteristics of a Team and Barriers to Effective Team Functioning

Workplace Psychology

In searching for problems that teams face, I discovered professor Michael West’s (2008) list of barriers to effective teamwork that I believe is better and more comprehensive. Dr. West is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Lancaster University Management School. A lack of team purpose and tasks. Conflict with other teams.

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

Workplace Psychology

Overwhelmingly, the answer was: trust me with my time, trust me to do my job, and I’ll deliver results, and be a happier employee too (Ressler & Thompson, 2008). ” Employees who were in the pilot program were happier and more productive and they didn’t want it to end (Ressler & Thompson, 2008).