Category: Leading Edge

Leading Edge – Volume 22 – Growth and Development

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Growth and Development

 
  • The investment in team member growth and development is a significant indicator in workplace health and success.
  • Training should be provided that expands knowledge, is driven by team member needs and desires and is not just about improving job skills.
  • Internal opportunities for both movement (lateral) and advancement (promotion) should be provided to all team members.
  • Empowerment of team members is a key ingredient to successful growth and development. True empowerment and not traditional delegation.
  • Work to assist team members in finding self-actualization.

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Leading Edge – Volume 21 – Team Member Self-Esteem Needs

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Team Member Self-Esteem Needs

 
  • Meeting the self-esteem and ego needs of team members creates a healthy and high performing workplace as well as develops increased performance and engagement.
  • Making praise, appreciation and recognition a part of the organization’s culture creates sustained health and performance.
  • Leaders must be committed to consistency in providing appreciation and positive feedback.
  • Leaders must overcome their own stigmas related to appreciation and praise and not judge the needs of others based on their own needs.

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Leading Edge – Volume 20 – Team Member Social Needs

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Team Member Social Needs

 
  • Healthy and effective organizations are concerned with and work hard at meeting the social needs of their team members.
  • Shared celebrations are an important step in meeting social needs. Birthdays, work anniversaries and other important milestones should be celebrated.
  • Don’t gauge the social needs of your team based on your own.
  • Create opportunities to adopt a cause or charity.
  • The relationship that team members crave most is with their immediate leader. Satisfy that need by building deep relational connections with them.

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Leading Edge – Volume 19 – Safety and Security Needs

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Safety and Security Needs

  • Organizations, and individual leaders have an obligation to meet the basic second tier need for safety and security.
  • The bulk of this need can be satisfied with team members by demonstrating financial viability and sharing key information related to that strength.
  • Telling and sharing the company history will also aid in meeting this need set.
  • Key company policies, including anti-harassment, bullying and hostile working environment elimination, must be enforced fairly and equitably.
  • Communicate any situation in which the company or organization may appear in the news or social media in a less than favorable manner.  Never surprise team members with reading bad news elsewhere.

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Leading Edge – Volume 18 – Compensation

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Compensation

  • To contribute to a healthy and effective working environment, compensation strategies must include fairness and equitability.
  • The most  common point of lack of fairness is the amount paid for internal promotions versus outside new hires.
  • Great organizations provide “value statements” to their team members showing the total of all compensation and other contributions by the company.
  • Many healthy workplaces now provide assistance and training to team members to assist them in managing their personal finances.
  • Compare your compensation plans to your competitors and ensure that you are within a common range.  You do not have to be the highest but should not be the lowest.

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Leading Edge – Volume 17 – Talent Management

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Talent Management

  • In many ways, the talent management function can make or break a healthy workplace.
    Healthy workplaces recruit new team members for fit, attitude and people skills above longevity, technical skills or education.
  • A retention strategy to keep the best people must also be implemented and healthy workplaces identify the good ones and meet their needs related to growth, compensation and environment.
  • After coaching and formalities, the ability to remove a non-performing or non-fitting team member quickly and easily is another characteristic of a healthy workplace.  When it is not going to work, make the decision and take action quickly.
  • The talent management function must be closely connected to the organization’s culture, mission and objectives and cannot operate in an independent vacuum.  They must be culture warriors for the organization and operating partners with the other departments.

This is a great time to pause and say:

Thank you to our incredible customers.  Thank you to the Aegis Learning team.  Thank you to our prior participants that stayed connected with us.  Thank you to our vendor partners.

We are incredibly grateful for the support and continued trust in us to provide the training, coaching and other professional development that you have come to expect in the last 25 years.

Tim Schneider
Aegis Learning

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Leading Edge – Volume 16 – Introduction to Healthy Workplaces

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Introduction

  • Creating and maintaining a healthy workplace requires a holistic and dedicated approach to many facets of the organization.  It is not just a randomly selected set of skills.
  • Strategic work must be done in talent management (hiring, firing and retaining), compensation, safety, social needs, team member self-esteem, team development, ethical congruence, transparency and more.
  • A healthy working environment is the third piece of true success where the other two are skills and heart.  The small intersection of those three areas create unstoppable success for an individual or organization.

One of our commitments to you, our customers and friends, is to continually provide you with useable and easy to access learning content.

To that end, we have just finished adding the following tools to the resource tab of www.discoveraegis.com:
Video Library
Newsletter Archive and Library
Inspiration Library
Article Library
And the best part of all these great follow-up and refresher tools?

They are FREE.  No registration required.  Nothing.  Just use and enjoy.  And new content is being added every week.

Two other quick points of note include an invitation to read Polly Walker’s great piece on optimism and look for three articles from Teresa Lowry in the following weeks.  Upon conclusion of our Healthy Workplace series, Matt Zobrist will take a turn in front of the camera with an awesome series about mentoring.

Thank you for your continued support and have a great week.
Tim Schneider
Aegis Learning

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Leading Edge – Volume 15 – High Performance Teams Conclusion

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Focus on High Performance Teams-High Performance Teams Conclusion

  • Different personality types and styles have an influence on overall team dynamics and performance.
  • First, understanding the different personalities, providing empathy for different approaches and styles and finally, adapting to those differences will create great teamwork.
  • Set expectations for interpersonal interactions no differently than you would for technical performance.  Value communication, interaction and teamwork as much as productivity and quality to avoid difficult team members developing.
  • Continue to reach out and try to connect with “cubicle curmudgeons” and locate that point in which they will engage with the team.  Could be input, social interactions, being valued or a variety of things but keep trying.
  • Yes, my dog is with me during filming.
  • Update on old company. 🙂

On the day after Memorial Day, we are incredibly thankful for all the women and men who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.  It is on their sacrifice that we are able to live in freedom, operate our business and live our lives in peace.  Rest well warriors of a noble calling.

Some of the Aegis Learning team was able to participate in some community service on Friday evening.  This was the first of many monthly “pay backs” we will be doing.  If you are interested in joining us, please drop us a note.

We are also thrilled to welcome Camina Stevenson and Jasneet Kaur to the Aegis Learning team.  Their talents are exceptional and we are very fortunate to have them with us.

Next week, please look for a great article on the power of optimism from Polly Walker and a new video series.

Thank you and have a great rest of this week.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

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Leading Edge – Volume 14 – Enjoying Each Other

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Focus on High Performance Teams-Enjoying Each Other

  • High performing teams enjoy interacting with each other outside of the context of work and prioritize the time for that.
  • Create regular social events that encourage lighter, non-work related interactions.
  • Get out of the office/working environment and have fun together.  Laugh, tell stories and get to know each other on a more meaningful level.
  • Ritualize these events and make them a regular part of your organization’s culture.
  • Let team members decide on activities, times and dates.

Lots of super cool stuff happening at Aegis Learning.

We should be able to finalize our hiring of a couple of new team members for video production and online learning content in the next couple of weeks.  Very exciting stuff as we continue to grow to meet the needs of our customers.

We are most excited about finalizing a series of open enrollment programs launching in August.  We already have a ton of interest in both of them and we have some great discounts for prior customers and affinity groups.  Please let us know if you would like more information or see the link below.

And finally, staying true to our purpose, we have created a library of over 100 videos ranging from communication skills to difficult team members, from complexity to team member engagement.  And that library is available to you totally FREE.  So if you need a little refresher or want to pick up some great new skills, please check out our video library.

VIDEO LIBRARY DIRECT LINK

Have a great week and thank you for your continued support.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

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Leading Edge – Volume 13 – Peer Based Feedback

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Focus on High Performance Teams-Peer Based Feedback

  • First, make sure that trust is deeply rooted among team members and communication is rich and constant.  Without those two foundations, peer based feedback will not work.
  • Encourage team members to share positive feedback and appreciation with one another.  Model that behavior frequently as well.
  • Praise, recognize and appreciate when team members provide each other feedback.  Let them know it is a valued behavior.
  • Let the team know your expectations for sharing feedback.  Many team members do not realize they have permission to share praise and correction with other team members.
  • Start with encouragement of positive feedback and then slowly introduce the use of peer based corrective feedback.
  • As a leader, do not be anxious to jump in and mediate or work through little dysfunctions in feedback.  Allow the team to be self-correcting related to how they provide feedback.

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What we do is provide a steady stream of current articles related to leadership, customer service and teamwork.  Our people man the helm of our Facebook and Twitter feeds and are always on the lookout for things of interest or value to our customers and friends.  On Fridays, we share a little humor along the way and we are not afraid to let our personalities come through and let you get to know us.

Thank you so much and I hope you have a great week.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

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