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7 Questions to Improve Your Team’s Communication

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Nothing will improve your team’s productivity faster than better communication. Having a deliberate process and cadence of communication will save hours of lost time, productivity and drama. 7 Questions to Improve Your Team’s Communication. What is working well about the way we are currently communicating?

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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

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Document Your Work Keep clear records of your contributions, decisions, and communications. Documentation can serve as a helpful reference if there’s ever a dispute about what happened. Here’s how: 1. Build Strong Relationships The stronger your relationships, the less likely others are to unfairly blame you.

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Leading Through Rapidly Changing Priorities

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Create a Consistent Reliable Communication Strategy. These first three steps take place before you communicate changes with your team. One of the most important parts of your communication is to let your team know that goals will change – and how frequently they can expect it to happen. Set Expectations. Advocate for Your Team.

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How to Inspire Behavior Change

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Do document. Communication behavior modification giving effective feedback how to get employees to change how to stop bad behavior at work' Keep that “feedback-is-a-gift-and-I-care-about-you” loving feeling in mind, while having a direct conversation about specifically what must change. Don’t linger. I- Initiate.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

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Often it’s the best performers who are too busy to “toot their own horn” and document their accomplishments well. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication how to do a performance review performance appraisal performance review' It’s not bragging, it’s useful.

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4 Secrets to a Successful Performance Improvement Conversation

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” Almost every time I work with supervisors on improving their coaching, they are sure they have communicated what to do. If not, cross your t’s and dot your i’s on your performance documentation.) And, of course, they’ve been crystal clear on many levels. First do a gut check. Do you believe this is possible?

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What’s Going to Happen Next?

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Open a document or get a piece of paper and write your next steps. You can help your team with: Consistent communication – use your 5×5 communication strategy (and maybe amp it up to 10 times or more). Email your team to schedule a meeting. Create a file for the topic, take notes on the email, and put it in the file.