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Leading Edge – Volume 24 – People Centered Leadership

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-People Centered Leadership

 
  • One of the most common predicting elements of a healthy (and successful) workplace is the presence of people centered leaders at all organizational levels. From the C-suited to the first line of supervision.
  • People are never be viewed or treated as a commodity at healthy workplaces.
  • People centered leaders are great listeners and prioritize listening to their team members.
  • People centered leaders provide genuine empathy to team members.
  • People centered leaders build solid and lasting relationships with team members.

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Leading Edge – Volume 25 – Input and Voice

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Input and Voice

 
  • The input and voice from team members have great impact in engagement, problem solving and innovation.
  • Effective leaders in healthy workplaces seek input prior to important decisions and when challenges present themselves.
  • Natural spots for input include strategic planning, budgeting and the identification of process improvement opportunities.
  • Soliciting voice includes looking for feedback and creating an environment where disagreement is encouraged.

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Leading Edge – Volume 23 – Ethical Congruence

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Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Ethical Congruence

 
  • Ethical consistency or ethical congruence is not about ethics and certainly not about morality. It is about the consistent and fair application of policies to all team members.
  • When team members believe their are dual standards, unfairness, lack of consistent enforcement or favoritism, morale will be substantially harmed.
  • Avoid making policy exceptions because of who someone is or because they happen to be a favored team member.
  • Senior leaders especially must be consistent and great role models for this behavior.
  • Take special care to ensure you are not creating any appearance of impropriety or favoritism.

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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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  • 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
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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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