Happy New Year!
In case you missed any of our posts in 2016, we’ve captured our top five here, to start your new year.
All the best in 2017,
The Boda Team
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HBR Live: Giving & Receiving Feedback
Harvard Business Review and our Director of Learning, Deborah Grayson Riegel, discuss the benefits and challenges of giving feedback, and how to effectively structure a feedback conversation in this HBR Live event.
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Being a Good Boss in Dark Times
This article originally appeared on hbr.org
Senseless acts of violence affect all of us. Mass shootings, suicide bombers, assassinations-the emotions such events bring up are strong, even if our personal connection to the events themselves is not. Feelings of sadness, pain, confusion, and anger don’t get checked at the office door. If you’re leading a team or an organization, how can you help manage the emotional culture of the people you’re responsible for?
I had an opportunity to explore that a few days ago when I spoke with a Derek, the COO of a large, publicly traded company based in the Midwest, the day after yet another tragedy. We spent the first ten minutes talking about his trip to some of their European offices the prior week and some questions he was thinking about. At a pause, I asked him how he was reacting to the latest tragedy. Derek talked about when he heard, how his family reacted, and how terrible it was. I asked him what it meant for him as a leader and he paused. He wasn’t sure …
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The Seven Habits of Compassionate Leaders
This article originally appeared on athenainsight
How can organizations fulfill their values, mission, and purpose? By integrating leadership and compassion. Companies like Google have managed to make compassion a core component of the workplace. And compassionate leadership is especially important in healthcare, where care and empathy are integral to the mission.
In my years of executive coaching with The Boda Group, I’ve found that leaders who actively cultivate compassion as a core leadership competency all share a set of notable traits.
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When Your Employee Doesn’t Take Feedback
This article originally appeared on hbr.org.
In my decade as a leadership coach, I have heard countless versions of the same concern from my clients – committed leaders who understand the importance of giving actionable feedback to their team members – who find themselves thwarted when the person receiving it acts out, shuts down, or fails to follow through on promises. These managers can give feedback but can’t make their people take it. Or can they?
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Why Building Community Matters
This article originally appeared on athenainsight
Creating a sense of community is one of the toughest challenges facing leaders today. But community is critical to the engagement that drives performance and retention. The process of building community is so central to leadership that it even has a name: “contextual leadership.”