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A Better Way to Make Decisions

If you are like most leaders, you struggle with the type of process or leadership approach needed, depending on the decision you are facing. Do you gather input from others, delegate the decision completely, or

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From Surviving To Thriving: The Role of Human Resources

According to Jeanne Meister’s Forbes article, “Top Ten HR Trends for the 2022 Workplace,” CHROs have been asked to deal with the challenges of creating healthy workplace environments, looking after employee wellbeing, and creating flexible work options, all while leading with empathy. They, along with the other C-Suite leaders, have been focused on survival: delivering on the mission without gaps in service.

Building off the trends noted in Deloitte’s 2021 Human Capital Trends Report, enabling your organization to thrive, not just survive, creates a need to “become distinctly human at your core.” What does this mean to be human at our core? Bring out the human strengths that make thriving possible.

Allow employees to add their desires and concerns to the conversations about future flexibilities and technologies needed to empower them to be more successful.

Expand and pay greater attention to employee surveys and analytics to create a more accommodating and satisfying employee experience. The challenges facing our diverse work environments and workforces continue to require that human concern be central to planning. This isn’t just a mandate for HR professionals, but for all leaders.

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Building a High-Performance Team

Vanessa Urch Druskat and Stephen Wolff identified three foundational elements needed for team effectiveness: that teams need mutual trust among members, a sense of group identity, a sense of group efficacy and organization development Virginia. (the belief that the team can perform well and that group members are more effective working together than apart).

Label Emotions

Emotional intelligence is the ability to make emotions work for you, instead of against you. People high in emotional intelligence can perceive their own feelings as well as that of others. Being better at handling emotions in a team context begins with becoming more skilled at recognizing and acknowledging team members’ emotions.

Give Space to Discuss Emotions

Many people have been taught to shy away from addressing emotions for fear of exasperating the situation or negatively impacting relationships. Task-oriented leaders may think that dealing with emotions takes time away from doing the real work.

Labeling emotions allows for explicit acknowledgment and acceptance that emotions exist, and it builds understanding for how they influence behavior. It humanizes the situation and the person. Handling emotions well on a team requires empathy — understanding and accepting how emotions impact someone’s thinking and actions.