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As a manager, one-on-one meetings with your team can be a powerful tool for driving productivity, fostering growth, and strengthening relationships. However, these meetings can often fall short of their true potential. In this article, we'll explore strategies to elevate the value and effectiveness of your one-on-one meetings, ensuring they become a valuable asset in your management toolkit.
Are you looking to boost your team’s performance and well-being? Then, a team-building workshop may be the solution for you. By participating in team building workshops, your team can better understand each other’s strengths, weaknesses, and working styles. They can engage in interactive activities and exercises that promote collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity.
With over a third of our time spent at work, your colleagues are a significant part of your daily life. They are the people who send you funny memes when you need cheering up, listen to the occasional rant, and help you out of a tough spot. With Christmas coming, you may be considering showing your fellow team member how much their work friendship means to you.
Do you want to know the secret to improving your team’s productivity and helping them have a better workday? Cancel all 10.00 am meetings and think twice before you interrupt them. It may sound too good to be true, but these two small actions will result in significant change as they enable your team to do the one thing they really want – complete their work.
I conducted the first “A Better Workday” survey in 2020 to gain a deeper understanding of how we can improve the workday for our teams, and ourselves. Seventy people in different roles and global locations participated, and the results were fascinating in their simplicity.
People want to be able to get their work done and believe that being more considerate and helpful is the key to a better workday for everyone.
Do you know what time of the day is best for you to tackle the most important tasks? Is it the same for your team? Within the typical business hours of 9-5, the majority of survey respondents said they were most productive between 09.00 am and 12.00 noon, with 10.00 am being the most popular hour for getting things done.
How can you help others have a better workday? I asked the question as part of my research into productivity during COVID-19 and received responses from managers, employees, business owners and consultants working in multiple sectors across the globe. Many commented that this is the first time they had ever thought about how they can help others, and some were surprised at their own response. Consideration, empathy, understanding, patience and kindness came up repeatedly as people thought about those that they worked with. So too did some practical steps that could be taken. Here are the top 5 things you said that you can do to help others have a better workday.
Discover your team’s ‘Hour of Power’
Clarify what is important
Complete your work on time
Share knowledge
Cancel 2 meetings