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Mindful Management

What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose, accepting our thoughts and feelings without judgment and becoming aware of what is happening around us.

Mindfulness has its roots in spiritual communities, though is integrated more in the business world as a tool to build healthy work environments. It helps managers pay attention to what is occurring in the present and to make corrections that support team members and the business goals.

How to Be an Effective Manager

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Managing employees takes time and energy to build a healthy working relationship with each person. With daily business and employee demands, it’s challenging to focus on what is a priority as both can be important at the same time. Business and employees are integrated into any successful company as one will not operate without the other. Since people are critical to the success in meeting your deliverables, how can you best manage your team?

Do You Hold Your Employees Accountable?

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Do you have team members that don’t meet deliverables? If so, how can you keep them on track with their performance?
Accountability!

What is accountability?
The basic definition is to account for one’s action. Take responsibility for one’s performance and the overall success of the result.

Where is the Manager’s Accountability?
In managing employees, you are responsible for you team’s results. How can you instill accountability in them and decrease your need to macro manage the details of their work? Here are some ideas:

Do You Empower or Micromanage?

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When managing employees, it’s tempting to want to manage all the details of an employee’s work in the guise of helping them be more productive. Does it actually help? Rarely. Instead what you manage to do is create frustrations for you as well as the employee. Managers who need to micromanage usually have a large dose of anxiety which propels them to control everything that is happening.

Managers are not trained in coaching and counseling so they use the tool they know best – control.

Instead clear direction and expectations allows the employee to engage and contribute in a more effective way to meet business goals.

Do Counter Offers Work to Retain Employees?

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A manager doesn’t want to lose a strong performer as they need them to meet business goals. So what happens when an employee gives notice, especially if the person is critical to the operations or project? Does it make sense to create a counter offer in order to entice them to stay?

Employees leave for many reasons and in some cases money is the primary reason. Though in my experience, money is not usually the precipitating factor when an employee decides to leave. Most likely the job didn’t just materialized and they accepted it. Rather the employee may have updated their resume and started looking long before the offer came to them. If this is the case, how do you think a counter offer will work? What are some of the scenarios if you decide to counter offer in order to keep a key person.

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