A special report on burnout and stress from the APA discussed how American workers across the board saw heightened rates of burnout from 2020 to 2021. Based on their findings, 79% of employees experienced work-related stress in the month before the survey, and 3 in 5 employees felt the negative impacts of work-related stress, such as low interest, motivation, and energy.
Leading and managing teams
Top tips for selecting staff: some do’s and don’ts
Selecting staff to join your team is one of the most critical tasks you will carry out as a manager. This is not made easier by the reality that all of us, to some degree, work with unconscious biases.
7 tried & tested career tips that helped me become CEO of a MNC
Success is easy to achieve. It is also easy not to achieve.
Jim Rohn, entrepreneur and motivational speaker
Use the 5 languages of appreciation to give your team a boost
We all want a pat on the back sometimes, right? Well, apparently not. It turns out there are 5 languages of appreciation in the workplace.
How to resolve team conflict, with 5 common examples plus solutions
I Googled ‘how to resolve team conflict’. There was a lot of good advice (as you’d expect!) but it was all quite generic. There were no real-life examples of team conflict. And none of the articles recognized that how you resolve conflict depends on what is causing the conflict.
The year-end review: a guide for managers
The end of each year is a natural opportunity for reflection, in life and in work. In this context the year-end review with each of your team members provides an opportunity for you to step back from the day-to-day and take a more holistic perspective.