What is it that employees want from their managers? Simply put – timely, respectful and relevant communication. And even more precisely, the April 2015 Gallup study finds that employees want to know that they can approach their manager with “any type of question,” indicating the importance of an environment of communication openness.
Asking for help shouldn’t be scary. Here are four tips managers can implement to help create a not-so-spooky, more open and collaborative work environment.
Conflicting ideas and perspectives are good. We know this can lead to creativity, breakthroughs, and more, which is how we get and experience progress.
The problem is that many people lack the skill to separate their own identities from their personal points of view in order to take that next step to consider different ideas.
This lack of skill leads many of us to dig in our heels and become immovable, insisting that our perspective is the only one that’s “correct”.
99.9% of coaches focus on our conscious mind. That can be useful for immediate results. But for...
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