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Workforce Performance & Development Tips
Have you ever: listened to the audio in an elearning and quickly opted to mute the sound and read the closed captions? Listened to a prerecorded technical video, lecture, or message from leadership and either fast-forwarded areas, wished you could get that time back in your life, or both? While there are countless reasons why it may not have been very good, I’m going to focus on this month’s tip about preparing for audio voice-overs. Save time and money by resolving outstanding items before the handoff to professional or in-house voice talent.
Ways to Improve Your KISS
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Observations: The following may be unintentional yet are typical:
- Some leaders/organizations don’t KISS; if they do, they don’t do it well
- Some managers, team leaders, and project leads are too busy to KISS
- Employees (regardless of function) need leadership to KISS but may not say anything
Do you work in an environment of ambiguity? Do challenges and fluid changes frustrate, confuse and deplete you or are you motivated, able to adapt quickly, and see it as experience opportunities?
DNR A Three-year-old Onboarding Program
The 422 Business Advisor · Feb 1, 2020
HAVE YOU EVER: Heard your favorite song and instantly turned up the volume or saw your best friend and immediately smiled?
Many of us live for those instant happy-place feeling moments. What’s even more exciting is when you can deliberately apply that moment to improve and stimulate life and career situations.
Ask yourself: What gets you instantly smiling and feeling rejuvenated?
- “Why was I invited to this meeting?”
- “I’m not sure what’s next?”
- “What am I supposed to do?”
- “What does s/he actually want?”
Imagine the following scenario: Isabel is unexpectedly called into the VP’s office for the second time this month. Her high-performing team, looking more like startled Prairie Dogs, peek their heads over the cube walls to catch a glimpse of the situation.
Calmly Isabel enters the fishbowl office and closes the door behind her. She appears to be engaged in the impromptu 1:1 conversation. Afterward, as Isabel returns to her office, she smiles and confidently says to her team, “I always know I am going to leave the room more aware and informed than before I entered it, which in reality helps all of us.”
Would you have responded like Isabel or differently?
Are your monthly team meetings like speed networking with uncomfortable beginnings, quick status updates, and “we ran out of time” endings? Do quarterly sessions begin as a digital remix of
Pink Floyd’s “…anybody out there,” Adele’s “Hello,” and the Verizon commercial “can you hear me now?”
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