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Is Your Workplace Feedback Thoughtful, Balanced, and True? AuthorityConsultingDevelopmentFocusLeadershipLeadership DevelopmentManagementMeetingsMotivationNegative FeedbackOrganizationTrainingUndermanagementVicious Cycle of Undermanagement
October 18, 2024

Is Your Workplace Feedback Thoughtful, Balanced, and True?

Every time a manager provides feedback, their credibility is on the line. Giving feedback that is generally inaccurate—off-base, unfair, unbalanced, or factually wrong—is a surefire way to undermine that credibility. On the other hand, employees come…
The Seven Types of Management Challenges and How to Solve Them adviceAttitudeBehaviorCommitmentCommunicationEmployee PerformanceExpectationsFocusGuidanceInterdependencyLeadershipManagementMeetingsMotivationNew TeamOrganizationPerformance ManagementProductivitystructured conversationsTraining
October 18, 2024

The Seven Types of Management Challenges and How to Solve Them

Despite how unique your management challenges may seem, the common denominator is likely unstructured, low-substance, hit-or-miss communication. When things are going wrong in a management relationship, that is usually at least part of the cause. What…
The Top Causes of Employee Turnover CommitmentCommunicationExpectationsflexibilityGuidanceHigh PerformanceopportunitiesOrganizationpent-up departure demandpost-pandemic workforcerelationship conflictstaffingtalent shortagesTalent WarsTrainingtraining processesturnoverunemploymentWorkforce
October 18, 2024

The Top Causes of Employee Turnover

After huge recent fluctuations in the job market—and despite ongoing downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering—unemployment is at record lows and employers are facing more severe talent shortages than any time since we at RainmakerThinking began our workplace…
What Is High-Structure, High-Substance Dialogue? AccountabilityadviceCoachingCommunicationEmployeesExpectationsFocusFundamentalsGuidanceManagementMeetingsMotivationPerformancePerformance StandardsResourcesUndermanagement
November 9, 2024

What Is High-Structure, High-Substance Dialogue?

Our research shows that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, almost always, the common denominator is unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication. With the added complications of managing some combination of remote, hybrid, and…
Every manager is a Chief Retention Officer ExpectationsflexibilityGuidanceHybrid WorkplaceopportunitiesOrganizationRecognitionRecruitingTalent WarsTrainingturnover
October 18, 2024

Every manager is a Chief Retention Officer

When people leave their jobs voluntarily it is almost always—at least in part—directly attributable to their relationship (or lack thereof) with their immediate leader, manager, or supervisor:   Their manager fails to regularly keep track of…