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How to tell your staff is burned out without them saying “I’m burned out”
By the time you get a resignation letter in your email, it’s usually too late. If you do somehow succeed in convincing your employee to stay on by promising more money and changes to whatever is causing them dissatisfaction, it usually doesn’t last long. As soon as their heart isn’t in it anymore, they’ve basically mentally quit and it’s only a matter of time before they put in their letter again for real.
How to communicate bad news to your remote team
Have an announcement to make to your team? Don’t mess up these important four principles.
How to hold a remote 1 on 1: Formats for success
Here’s what I know about holding great one-on-ones with your employees; learned over seven years of managing teams between 5 and 75.
Welcome to Been Remote
Remote work can be an easy shift for some companies, but others struggle with the transition and unique pain points of managing a distributed team. We wanted to create a place where managers and employees can both get advice and information on how to make remote work successful.
Happy employees mean better work and a stronger culture. What does it mean to enable employee happiness? Is it impossible to please everyone?
Meet some of our authors
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Deanna Seymour
Founder, The Playhouse
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Tia Nichole McMillan
PR pro, professor, Navy
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Jill Felska
Founder, Want to Work There
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Adrienne Kmetz
Owner, AKConsulting
Is it okay to be late? Worse, is it okay for your CEO to make you apologize for it?