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How to Get Better at Defining Workplace Problems

The way you define a problem determines how you will try to solve it. If your understanding of what is happening is incomplete or incorrect, the decisions you make may address the wrong causes, leaving the real problem unresolved. In some situations, this can also lead to unfair decisions that affect employees who were not actually responsible for the problem.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / August 31, 2026

What to Do When Two Team Members Don’t Get Along

The situation when two team members don’t get along is common and can be found in many workplaces. Some team leaders stay away from these team members’ arguments and disagreements, some intervene only in some cases, and others go all in and take action to resolve the issue.
Constant tensions between team members affect not only them, but can also impact the quality of their work and the work environment.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / July 31, 2026

Misconceptions About Employee Motivation and Their Costs for Teams and Businesses

What employers think about employee motivation strongly shapes how they act toward their teams.

Misconceptions about employee motivation cost them and their teams as well. They led to decisions and actions that are set to fail from the beginning because they are based on conceptions that are inaccurate, and that don’t provide a good understanding of when motivation exists.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / June 26, 2026

How to Create a Job Description

Job descriptions are part of the labour contract, and they need to be written carefully. They represent what employees agreed to do for the employer when they signed their labour contracts or when their job descriptions were updated.

They are also the main document used to establish the hiring criteria and requirements, and they serve as a basis for performance evaluations as well.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / May 22, 2026

Authority and Influence in Organizations

Understanding how authority is built and maintained is essential for any person in a leadership position. Then, knowing how to distinguish between authority and influence helps us better understand our own behaviours and those of others.

People have different levels of authority and influence in a company. Understanding the power relationships between the members of a company helps us know to whom different requests should be addressed and to whom not, what can be requested or expected from different members, who can facilitate or authorize certain actions, or who should be involved in helping with different changes in the company.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / April 24, 2026

Why Leading a Team Feels Harder Than Ever Right Now

Leading a team was never easy but nowadays it has become even harder because of the technological and economic changes that impact how companies operate. The external environment impact is high and adds challenges that team leaders didn’t have before, at least not in the context they are in now.

Companies have faced technological changes before, restructured work and reduced the workforce before, but it seems that this time it’s at a larger scale.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / March 26, 2026

How to Successfully Redesign Roles and Reorganize Work

With all the technological changes happening right now and continuing to develop in the future, it’s very likely that you’ll need to make changes in your employees’ roles and reorganize work. Some activities will become automated, new tools will be used, and work will need to be reorganized.

These changes are not always easy because they can create insecurity, confusion, tension, and disengagement among employees. You need to handle different aspects of these changes and involve the right people to help you make the right decisions.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / February 25, 2026

How to Integrate a New Employee Into Your Team

The first months of a new employee in the company are critical not only for the new employee, but also for the rest of the team members and for the company itself.

The integration, or the induction or onboarding process -as it’s also called, is not only about the documents a new hire needs to read and sign, the company tour, meetings with other employees, desk or office preparations, or IT access and tools. An important part of it is what the direct manager does to integrate the new employee. And this part of the integration process is what we’ll talk about in this blog post. But first, let’s see what are the effects of poor integration.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / January 26, 2026

Why It Matters to Offer Jobs That Add Value to a Person’s Career

There are jobs that don’t offer development opportunities, and others that contribute to a person’s career, helping them grow professionally and take on greater responsibilities and higher positions over time.

Distinguishing between these two categories of jobs will help you, as a team leader or entrepreneur, better understand your employees’ behaviour and motivational drivers.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / November 25, 2025

The Influence of Direct Managers on Employee Motivation and Performance

An employee’s motivation, performance, and in general his or her experience in a company is greatly influenced by their direct manager. Whether it’s a small or large company, the direct manager is the authority figure with whom the employee interacts most frequently and who influences how employees carries out their activities.

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Leave a Comment / Employee Motivation, Team Leadership / Daniela Tancău / October 15, 2025