People Management

6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again

Keith Ferrazzi

Managers do not always have the time to undertake the coaching of all their staff themselves. It is better to try to develop a culture of coaching and mentoring within your teams.

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Why Feedback Can Make Work More Meaningful

Rachel Pacheco

Increasing feedback efficiency by seeing as a vector of meaning at work.

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Research: When Extra Effort Makes You Worse at Your Job

Mouna El Mansouri, Karoline Strauss, Doris Fay

How to encourage proactivity without weakening performance.

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Retour d’expérience : la culture du feedback chez Netflix

An in-depth blog article on the practice of feedback at Netflix: founding principles, collective rituals, managerial postures, etc.  

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The Unintended Consequences of Asking for Employee Input

Hyunsun Park, Subra Tangirala, Insiya Hussain

A study which shows that managers can, without being aware of it, appropriate the ideas suggested by their teams. This acknowledgement bias weakens motivation and hinders proactivity.

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Use Gratitude to Counter Stress and Uncertainty

Christopher Littlefield

Beyond the known effects of acknowledgement over staff engagement, this article focuses on its virtues to help them through stressful and uncertain times.

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The Last Dance

Michael Tollin, Jon Weinbach

By following the journey of the Chicago Bulls football team during the 1997-98 season, we can see how coach Pil Jackson manages his team's stars.

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Antécédents et conséquences du comportement proactif au travail des cadres hospitaliers sur leur comportement d’innovation au travail : un modèle de médiation séquentielle-modérée

Lucie Pierre, Adalgisa Battistelli

An analysis of proactivity in hospital settings.

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Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation

Paul Axtell

Encouraging frank exchanges through an attitude of questioning and openness.

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How to Give Your Team the Right Amount of Autonomy

Deborah Ancona, Kate Isaacs

A few pieces of advice to increase the margins of maneuver of your teams while giving them the right reference marks to focus their efforts. 

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