Author: Beth Wonson
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5 Ways to Engage Quiet Staff in Meetings
I was recently asked how a leader could get quiet team members to speak up more in meetings. The truth is, change doesn’t begin with the quiet team members, but with you.The secret to encouraging engagement and participation rests with you and your skillfulness in 5 specific areas.
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3 Steps to Creating Accountability
When you are ready to accelerate employee engagement and genuine accountability, there are three steps that you can integrate into your management style. Once you integrate and master these steps, you will be cultivating a workplace culture accountability.
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Turning Conflict Into Collaboration
Even in healthy conflict, if what you want to express is left unsaid because you’re not comfortable saying it, it simmers and eventually boils over. The outcome can be far worse than if it had been discussed immediately. And over time, those simmering, suppressed thoughts can be misdirected and come out sideways as sarcasm, blaming,…
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Giving Feedback in a Pandemic
Presented by: Beth Wonson We all know feedback is required for growth and development. That is the truth. And yet our ego wants to believe that we are highly capable and skillful. This causes a resistance to both giving and receiving feedback. Now that we are in a pandemic and people are suffering, grieving, disappointed,…
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7 Questions That Will Change How You Manage People
When you are able to ask great questions, people become motivated, connected and empowered by the sharing of their ideas and knowledge. When your staff comes to you needing help, instead of simply providing answers, I have 7 questions you can ask which will foster critical thinking and proactive problem solving.
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Why is Navigating Challenging Dialogue a Movement?
We can no longer expect people to passively accept unskilled leadership. The NCD process is a way to develop leaders and managers who are effective because they understand how and why to communicate and collaborate. They understand the value of empowering their staff, and managing their own emotions.
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How Not to Suck at Communication
When your amygdala senses that any of those things are risk, it activates the most primitive parts of your brain to react with fight or flight. Even when the most evolved and empowering next step would be to seek understanding. If you want to not suck at difficult communication, the solution is to develop a…
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Answering Unanswerable Questions
Why unanswerable questions are so challenging for managers of people and businesses, and the solution for answering those questions.
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Building a Boat While It’s Sailing Down the River
One of the most pressing challenges that I am hearing about involves employees being resistant to necessary changes. Especially from employees who are not normally resistant. Let’s talk about how you can speak your truth about staff’s disruptive behavior with empathy, compassion, with a focus on the good of the whole.
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Holding Space is a Critical Manager Skill
Holding space is one of the most important skills for managers who want to develop the skillfulness of their staff. It is nuanced, requires practice, and also requires a significant level of self-awareness.