listened<\/em>?<\/strong> Have you given employees an opportunity to tell you what is going well and what is not? Have you openly requested feedback, with a process that encourages honesty?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Taking time to pause and ask these questions will certainly pay off at the end of the year – and possibly as early as the day after you ask the questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Mid-Year Checklist While we all know that managing is an ongoing process, the calendar provides us built-in \u2018milestones\u2019 to support a leadership rhythm that is essential for the alignment of the organization. As we approach mid-year, here are some things that should receive attention. Don\u2019t wait until July or August to put them in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[123,16,35,124,79,125,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Have you scheduled an all-employee meeting or phone call? <\/strong>Have you set aside a time to communicate an update about the performance of the company and the near-term challenges ahead?<\/p>\n