Great Manager Newsletter - Oct 23, 2024
Empower to Transform
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1 Big Thing
Empower to Tranform
The article emphasizes the power of employee empowerment, focusing on four key dimensions: autonomy, impact, confidence, and meaning. Empowering workers leads to increased job satisfaction, innovation, and performance. It also highlights the importance of fostering a sense of belonging and meaning at work, which is critical for retention. To drive transformation, companies must create cultures that allow employees to speak up, collaborate, and pivot when needed. Case studies show that empowering employees enables successful organizational transformations.
Watch This
How to Ask For More
Sometimes, building relationships with peers or bosses requires negotiation. While Alex Carter often talks about salary negotiation, the tips she offers works well in any negotiation. Here she offers 5 tips that you should keep in mind the next time you are negotiating anything with your boss or peers.
By the Numbers
17%
17% don’t want to manage people. That should worry us because the fewer great managers we have, the worse the work experience will be.
Words of Wisdom
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
― Benjamin Franklin
Business Laughs
Discussion Topics
What steps do you take to ensure effective cross-functional collaboration?
What I'm working on this week....
Focusing on building the community through getting new members.
Celebrating my anniversary and enjoying fall (before the snow comes).
Have a great week. Be a great manager.