Employees expect flexibility during a crisis. During the pandemic, employers have been more lenient with their work from home policies to meet the needs. While it may have been a good push to prove to some employers that remote work is feasible, some offices will require their employees to return to the office. But what happens when this work from home arrangement isn’t feasible in the future, but the employee wants to continue? Here is how to tell an employee that they can’t continue to work from home.
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If you feel like employee entitlement is on the rise, you are not alone. There is a growing amount of evidence that employees are developing an unrealistic set of expectations from their employer in the form of requested preferential treatment. Having an entitled worker is a headache for you as their leader, but also for the team who works with them. Here is a step by step guide for how to handle an entitled employee.
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As a leader, a positive workplace culture is important to maintain, which means that it is essential to hire the right people on to your team. A toxic influence on your team can come in the form of an entitled worker. Entitled workers believe that they are deserving of preferential treatment which can cause conflict on your team. One of the best ways to deal with an entitled employee, is to avoid hiring them in the first place. Here is a list of essential interview questions to avoid hiring entitled workers.
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These days, success in management is all about achieving results, meeting the next bench mark, and keeping high client satisfaction. While there are numerous opportunities to make quick decisions as a manager, there are some key times to hold back and wait. Essentially, the best course of action at times can be inaction. Here are five times where it is the right choice to avoid making a decision as a leader.
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Feeling a bit blah these days? Your retirement account is starting to grow, but the day you get to hand in your retirement notification is still a distant goal. You are diligently working away, but nothing seems exciting any longer. You may not be in the position you had hoped to be in by this stage of your career. Or, you may have achieved more than you had hoped, but it all feels meaningless and you are privately questioning moving on to something else. These signs point to a potential mid career crisis. Here is how to recognize a mid career crisis, manage a mid career crisis, and refocus your career goals.
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Have you ever sat at a conference room table internally cringing at what someone else was saying and wondered just how they got there? Six months later you hear that they received a promotion. Yes, that person. The idiot, the one you can outperform because you have better projects, or deliverables, or more letters after your name? Yes. they got a promotion (and probably a nice raise too). Here is the real reason incompetent people get ahead and how you can follow their lead on what they did to win over the higher ups.
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