Garrett Mintz: How AI can help managers set better objectives, goals
In most work environments, firefighting is inevitable, but it shouldn’t be your team’s primary focus.
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Garrett Mintz: The tool helping employers increase happiness
One finding is that work orientation is fluid, meaning it can change over time.
Garrett Mintz: Why leadership happy talk hurts your team’s performance
Leadership happy talk stems from pressures, both real and perceived, to show the world and one’s team that everything is going great.
Garrett Mintz: How to build a company culture that embraces mistakes
Imagine the workplace today. How much grace and patience do we give people to succeed?
Garrett Mintz: Here’s how we’re using AI to help us set SMART goals
The reason AI can be so powerful in this process is the immediacy of the feedback. Behavior change and positive habit formation occur when one’s pattern is disrupted, and the feedback received is immediate.
Garrett Mintz: Generous PTO can’t overcome lack of leadership
Overall, it seems there isn’t one work culture that is better than others. However, to be in the best work situation, I believe it starts and ends with having great leadership.
Garrett Mintz: How to lead during these times of uncertainty
Regardless of whether a recession happens, the mere rumors of a recession can have a massive impact on our employees and their feelings about work, and managers should be considering how to adapt their leadership style to handle any economic worries by their direct reports.
Garrett Mintz: Here’s how to upskill new managers quickly
The dearth of up-and-coming managers has led to greater turnover for both managers and the direct reports in their charge.
Garrett Mintz: How to measure performance for remote teams
As more teams continue to work remotely, we must find new leadership methods that can ensure productivity without relying on visibility without context.
In the workplace: Who is in charge of building your culture?
One thing everyone could agree on was that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for building an effective culture, but that, whatever culture you have built, it must be readily understood, inspiring, and not general and exclusively aimed to benefit the organization.
In the Workplace: How to maintain your A-game as a leader
Management is a skill that can’t be learned in sprints; it’s learned through a marathon of consistent, focused practice on improvement. Consistency is the key.
Garrett Mintz: The power of a good one-on-one meeting
One of the most important characteristics of strong managers who engage their team and help them feel connected to the work is their ability to conduct effective one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
In the workplace: Here’s how managers should handle 2021’s ‘Great Resignation’
Some executives I have interviewed have blamed working from home and the general burnout from the increased uncertainty as reasons for this struggle. Other executives blame generous unemployment benefits.
In the workplace: Innovation with bumpers is better way to go
This article is for people in those companies that tried new business ideas, regardless of whether they worked. Most leaders would agree that it’s important for their company to be innovative but struggle to empower their people.
In the workplace: Innovation can bring better work-life balance
As executives, one way we grow our impact and scale our performance is by creating standard operating procedures for our team. So why can’t we do that for ourselves when distinguishing between work and life?
Garrett Mintz: Self-awareness can always be improved
People management abilities are extremely valuable, whether or not you are in a leadership position or have the title of manager.
Garrett Mintz: How mentors can help leaders continue to grow
In a 360-degree assessment, in which we compare leaders’ self-ratings to how their colleagues rate their performance across several categories, 70% of executives rated themselves lower at specific skills than did their colleagues.
Garrett Mintz: Leaders often underestimate their abilities
As a society, we assume the most prominent business leaders have it all together—that they are brimming with confidence and are unshakable. We have conditioned ourselves to believe that leaders must be ever confident—that an organization’s CEO must have the answers, whether that’s because he or she is at the top of the organizational chart or because the leader has control.
Garrett Mintz: To avoid losing your best workers, be vulnerable
If you are a senior leader at a company or a business owner, look around at the people you work with. Who is engaged versus disengaged? The answer might surprise you.
Garrett Mintz: Pivoting to quality is key to future success
Your quantifiable goals, such as revenue, might not be achievable if the customer no longer believes in your product.