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The Feedback Dilemma: Why Leaders Struggle and Then Fail to Give Effective Feedback
A lot of employees around the world consistently complain that they do not get enough feedback from their managers.
But before jumping into blaming the managers immediately, let me share with you a real-life story that might explain why managers do not give enough feedback to their employees.
But before we begin, let me ask you a question and I want you to be patient with me as I have a point that I would love to make.
The Importance of Embracing Change: Lessons in Leadership from Failed Change Initiatives
A leader at a big multinational company approached me several months ago. He told me that they need my support in a huge change initiative that they are running.
The goals of this change initiative were 2 things:
1- To improve cross-functional collaboration between the Business unit’s different teams and departments, as they didn’t collaborate effectively.
From Vague to Vivid: How Clarity Can Transform Your Life and Work
Several days ago, I watched a very inspiring movie on Netflix called ‘’The Swimmers’’.
It is about the life story of teenage Syrian refugees Yusra Mardini and her sister Sarah Mardini.
Yusra and Sarah were competitive swimmers, and the story was about how they fled the war in Syria and the pain that they went through until they reached Germany and applied for an Asylum permit.
Empowering Managers to Drive Organizational Growth: A Simplified Checklist Approach
Two researchers, Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer, conducted an impressive study to try to find an answer to 2 questions:
1- How do positive and negative work environments arise?
2- And how do they affect People’s creative problem-solving?
To find answers to these questions, they collaborated with different companies in different industries and recruited 238 people in 26 project teams in 7 companies in 3 industries.
The Illusion of Perfection: How Positive Illusion Causes Workplace Problems
Imagine with me this situation...
A stranger enters the room, reads some information from a piece of paper in less than 90 seconds, and leaves. And then I asked you to guess this person’s IQ. Would you be able to?
Of course, you can make a guess, but most probably you will say ‘’how can I accurately guess the IQ of someone that I just saw for the first time and for less than 2 minutes?’’
Why Workplace Transformation is Imperative for the Future: A Call to Action
In 2017, I was about to die.
I was completely and daily under work stress and working extended working hours to solve the never-ending problems of the projects on my table as an employee at one of the big multinational companies.
I used to attend nearly 6 back-to-back meetings almost daily and the work pressure and problems were to the roof. To the extent that one of my colleagues went behind my back to my boss and told him that if someone didn’t interfere now, Mohamed could die from the work pressure.