Leadership coaching is a powerful team management training tool to help organization leaders at all levels leverage the leadership skills within themselves.
We're going to break your perception of employee feedback and help you rebuild your relationship. You'll like this version of feedback much more, we promise. 🙌
According to Harvard Business Review, “decisions are more effective when more people are involved from the start.” The more the merrier, right? Right. Great leaders know that asking for team input will yield the best decisions, uncover blind spots, and show peer appreciation.
I’m thrilled to announce that Tai Tran recently joined Matter as our Head of Marketing! Tai brings a slew of experiences in storytelling from some of the most beloved brands in the world like Apple and Samsung.
According to Harvard Business Review, taking risks and stepping outside of our comfort zone at work promotes personal and company growth. Great leaders know to make a true impact there has to be a component of risk-taking. It’s only then that we can uncover creative solutions.
We touched on how the power of Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Slack video seamlessly connects individuals from great distances to remote life, but all work and no play isn’t fun.
Welcoming Marc Reisen to the Matter team. Marc and I first worked together in 2013 and I’m thrilled to have him back on the team. Most recently, Marc was a Design Team Lead for Bitbucket at Atlassian.
According to Forbes, identifying your audience makes it “easier to capture someone’s attention because their needs and goals are front and centre.” As a leader, you want to produce quality work. Well, it all starts with connecting with your team through candid and constructive conversation.
While disagreeing with a peer seems scary and risky, it actually increases our understanding of one another because it requires us to hear the other point of view.
Receiving feedback the most valuable information you can get for your professional development. Before we get into the nitty-gritty of feedback, let’s get comfortable with the types of feedback you can expect. And, yes there’s more than just ONE type of feedback.
We need candor more than ever. To be specific, we need radical candor now more than ever. We named dropped radical candor a couple of blogs ago, but we promised to come back.
A lack of candor when giving professional feedback, updating your team on the status of a project, or encountering any workplace situations can lead to dire consequences.
Candor is no "small" skill. It's the foundation of a healthy work environment that allows a free flow of information. But in reality, professionals aren't too keen on being transparent.
It’s important to expand your bandwidth, get equipped, and support your team during these sensitive times. Here are the top five professional and soft skills to keep under your belt amid COVID-19.
We touched on how the power of Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Slack video seamlessly connects individuals from great distances to remote life, but all work and no play isn’t fun.
In an office setting, you know overcommitting is a recipe for disaster. Apply that same mindset while working from home. We understand that saying “uh-uh” doesn’t come naturally, but communicating a healthy no will avoid burning out.
Now is the time to work those verbal communications muscles (even if you can't go to the gym). We're answering some of your frequently asked questions on video chatting etiquette. Wear pants, put that sandwich down, and let’s get into it.
You asked and we've delivered. Now, you'll be able to track your progress, check out analytics, and view feedback on a specific skill all in one place. Understanding how you're doing on a skill just got a whole lot easier.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled work-from-home program to bring you some unnervingly, to-close-to-home tweets about WFH. Depending on what day you're on in terms of quarantine (we're on day 5), here are some of Matter's favorite #WorkFromHome tweets:
