Change Notes #40 September 29th, 2021
Welcome to another Change Notes newsletter! This weeks articles are focused on performance culture, team building, challenging yourself, the ‘new normal’, and setting goals for your personal and professional life going forward. These articles are always focused towards personal and professional growth as we navigate the post pandemic life and workplace.
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High-Perfomance Culture: The Power of Purpose
A high performance culture is one that has a set of behavior norms that set them up for superior performance. This is definitely something many managers strive to have on their team. Having a certain culture or performance standard is very important to have among your team. This article details how the power of purpose could be a good implementation to your team.
Why Amplifying Colleagues’ Voices at Work Benefits Us All
Feeling comfortable enough to speak your professional opinions openly at work can be very important. It can help bring group of colleagues feel more connected and heard by one another. This article covers a series of experiments that were conducted in order to find what made the groups feel comfortable and heard, and then what was lacking from the groups that did not feel this way. This article is definitely something to take into consideration as you are trying to grow a strong team foundation.
Why amplifying colleagues’ voices at work benefits us all – RealKM
The Challenge of Thinking Beyond Thinking
It is sometimes difficult when you are so focused on work 24/7 to take a step away from constant thinking. When all you do is work, it is difficult to completely remove yourself and look at things differently or from the outside when necessary. When you are able to take a step back and look at something from a different angle, or think about an issue differently than you normally would, you may find that you will not have to think so much after all.
5 Tips to Manage the ‘New Normal’ Work Environment
The workplace now compared to almost two years ago is a completely different place. There are no more handshakes, not even in person meetings sometimes. Everything has pretty much been flipped upside-down, but how can we manage this ‘new normal’? This article from ProjectManagement.com goes into detail on different efforts we can make in order to get used to this new style of work from here on out.
ProjectManagement.com - 5 Tips To Manage the 'New Normal' Work Environment
3 Benefits of Having a Vision
Having a vision for where you’re headed in your personal and professional life, but determining exactly what that vision is can be difficult. The three benefits of having a vision provided in the article may give you a reason to sit down and map out what you truly want out of your future. A vision does not just have to be an idea of what you want, you can also look at it as a strategy for getting where your ultimate goal is.