Projecting our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, or traits onto others can greatly influence how we perceive people and situations. Unfortunately, this tendency often leads us to form incorrect or misguided understandings of those we interact with and the circumstances we encounter. In the workplace, this bias manifests in various ways, generating different consequences for employee relationships, decision-making processes, motivation, the work environment, and overall company culture. To ensure more accurate perceptions of the people and situations around us, we need to eliminate biases that interfere with our judgment, including the projection bias.
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Employee motivation is different from personal motivation because it requires different tools and depends on what the employer has to offer to an employee as part of their company. The focus here is on what the employer is doing to motivate the employees to perform well in their jobs and to be satisfied with their jobs.
The concept of a professional career has transformed over the years as much as the labour market and how companies operate has changed. In traditional understanding, a professional career refers to an evolutionary sequence of professional activities and positions, usually within the same company. However, nowadays a career is not so much tied to what the current hiring company of an employee has to offer.
Do you currently have a remote team or are you considering offering remote work options to your employees? The ‘’game and the play rules’’ are different than those of office work. By gaining a thorough understanding of the pros and cons of remote work, you’ll be able to leverage its advantages and proactively address any potential drawbacks.
Change is inevitable. How can we handle it effectively? Making changes in a company is different than creating change at a personal level.
What are the communication patterns in your company? Do you have some specific ways in which you communicate with your team members and how they communicate with you? Which are these? Communication patterns play an important role in the relationships that are created between the leader and the employee and between employees, and, thus, they play an important role in their engagement.
Probably you thought about this topic, teamwork versus individual work, many times when you had to decide how to organize your employees work. Have you experienced both types of work? Which one do you prefer? The choices that you make in this regard impact how fast a task or an activity is done, the quality of the work that is performed, the relations between employees, their engagement and their motivation.
Why are the company norms important? The norms that a company have impact its capacity to reach its goals and to operate efficiently. Company norms are shared expectations of its members about their behavior. Through norms, the members of a company know what is expected from them and how their behaviors are evaluated in the company.
As a leader of your team, you’ll be in situations to resolve conflicts between your team members. Conflicts are inevitable and are not always bad. They can be the source of changes, can lead to innovative solutions and can prevent group thinking. These bring to the surface differences of opinions, differences in how people think, differences in values, competitions, or conflictual interests etc.
Do you want to increase your employees’ performances and you wonder how employee motivation affects performance? Well, let’s dive deeper into this subject. If you understand how these two work aspects are correlated and when are correlated, you’ll be able to take better decisions to increase your employees’ performances.
Let’s face it: we are all driven by our own interests and goals first. This means that your employees are driven by their own interests and goals first. How many times have these interests interfered with your business interests?
How often have you been in situations in which you had to tell an employee to redo the work he or she has done? If you have employees whose quality of work is not at the level you expect, this blog post can help you.
The more you can trust to let them organize and take decisions by themselves, the more time you will free up to do other important activities for your business or/and in your private life. Increasing their jobs autonomy is in their best interest too, because .....
How they interact with each other impacts the work atmosphere, their collaborations and the work results. Find out how you can create good working relationships.
Sometimes these two roles can be in conflict and can influence work results and team spirit.
Did you know that on average, the efficiency with which people are listening is 25%? So, most of us could be 75% more effective when using our listening skills. Listening is not the same as hearing. Hearing is something natural while listening is a skill that can be formed and improved.
Having good relationships with your employees can help you have motivated employees, but you have to go beyond the surface of these relationships and see what is really there.
You can’t make an exact prediction of whether a candidate will be motivated in your company, because there is a lot of data, on both sides, that remains unknown in the selection process, and after that. But you can look for certain relevant data to better understand the candidate’s situation.
Why it is important to link the company’s goals to the employees’ personal goals On one hand, you evaluate the value of an employee for your company considering what that employee brings to your company, how much his presence and work help your company.
There are many ways in which you can improve your employees' motivation, but in this blog post we'll consider just two of them: 1. The skills and competencies your employees have but no longer use - yet would like to. 2. The skills and competencies they would like to develop or acquire.
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