Developing relationships across your organization, identifying how your skills align with your company's mission and finding ways to help others achieve their goals can make you more influential, writes Scott Eblin. "When you know what's important to the people you work with, you'll have a better handle on the offers you can make that would be welcome by them," Eblin writes.
The agenda for one-on-one meetings should be set by your direct report, writes Kim Scott, who warns that they may not be effective if employees are only giving you good news, cancel or have no criticism to share. To avoid this, Scott recommends asking questions about your team members' motivation and goals and encouraging them to share ideas, and then helping them develop those concepts.
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Get remote employees socializing with each other by adding "social bookends" that encourage light, friendly conversations before and after meetings, writes Ed Stevens, CEO of Preciate. Start meetings with an icebreaker about vacationing or a television program, or add an activity or game, Stevens suggests.
Passive aggressive routes to termination sow doubt and fear among employees, says HR executive Andrea Bartlett, who urges employers to identify and handle underperformance. "If you're not delivering feedback early and often and you're waiting instead for a monthly or a quarterly or an annual review, you're much more likely to find yourself in a situation where you might be quietly firing people," Bartlett notes.
More than 50% of US workers are considering seeking a second job to cope with inflation, according to a Qualtrics survey. The problem is particularly prevalent for working parents as around 70% say their wages aren't keeping pace with inflation and 47% already have searched for a second job, in comparison to 38% of employees overall.
South America is generating a huge amount of avocados and, rather than let the fruit go to waste, the nonprofit Sharing Excess is planning a free distribution event, called Avogeddon, to give out cases of the fruit at a park in Philadelphia. In a Facebook post, the nonprofit said it has enough avocados for everyone in the city and is ready to "guac-and-roll."
