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Beat the summer slump

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Summer distractions are everywhere – schools out, the beach beckons, and many of our peers are off on vacations. Heck, as I write this, I’m watching my dog joyfully romp around in a lake, and I can’t help but smile at her goofiness. But let’s not forget, there’s work to be done! If you can’t

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Running good meetings

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Some of you are gleefully beginning to schedule some in-person meetings. Of course, we are beyond excited for this development too. And we believe nothing replaces the value of a productive meeting among colleagues—be it virtual or in-person. We only want to offer the caution not to waste this transitory moment to confirm that meetings

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It’s goal-setting time: try expanding their horizons!

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Many leaders come to us with aspirations for their direct reports to demonstrate stronger enterprise leadership. If you can relate, try one of these enterprise-focused questions with your direct reports to expand their horizons, elevate their game, and excite them about what’s possible. You’ll be amazed by what they say. Broadening Questions Beyond your functional

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Asking 1 question to be an even better leader

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

It’s no surprise that leaders come to HAVEN looking for answers to the riddle of great leadership. Many tell us that the methods they employed before no longer work. Some are frustrated by the conflicting feedback they receive from others about their behavior. And a few, who are at the end of their rope, will

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Timely refresher about navigating difficult conversations

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

When we facilitate leadership development programs, no HAVEN workshop is as popular as our Navigating Difficult Conversations workshops. So, we wanted to alert you to a recent HBR article, “Managing a Polarized Workforce,” that beautifully dovetails with our methodology and offers tips and consideration of context that are so essential when welcoming diverse perspectives. Our favorite part? The “triangle”

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Strengthening your relationships

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

You’ve heard us say it before: stronger relationships = stronger results. But in the maelstrom of today, it’s not easy to focus on our work relationships in our limited time together. Specifically, it’s hard to know what more can be said given that many remain frazzled, fatigued, and frustrated—and for good reason. For anyone feeling

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Caring for your team

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Whether you experiencing the “great resignation“, the “great awkward“, or the “great breakup” the workplace is definitely being shaken up. The norms, the power dynamics, even in our communications, are all shifting. And to many, it’s unsettling. As a manager, what can you do to meet the challenge? 1. Listen. Ask people how they are

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When they can’t “work it out”

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Each one tells me what the other has done wrong. Each thinks their behavior is justified, and each wants me to get involved. But come on, they are adults! So, I told them both to figure it out without me. And soon. The last role any of us wants to take on at work is

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Making office time count

Better Manage Your Team / Aimee Horowitz

Like many, we’re thrilled about all the hybrid work experiments underway and hopeful that a better design of work will emerge from them. Yet, we’ve also noticed two trends that may be worthy of your attention. An inadvertent neglect of in-person time with those outside of operational networks. In these cases, in-person time is being

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