Business Psych Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The analysis incorporated risk-related traits, the Big Five, and a ‘proactive personality’ construct that assesses the tendency to identify opportunities, take initiative, and persevere in efforts to change one’s environment in a manner that is ‘‘unconstrained by situational forces’’. Chan et al.

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Page Personnel

JANUARY 9, 2023

Being a team leader means training, directing, and motivating staff members to reach a specific goal.

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Success

JULY 29, 2022

I’ve been told while on an entirely female staff that my constructive feedback for those I supervise was “too harsh.” Society should encourage women to be more than people-pleasers. And by society, that includes women, too.

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Work Life

MARCH 7, 2024

While many of us were allowed free play as young as 5, the average age that a Gen Zer was allowed to go outside without parental supervision was closer to 11. Says Ken: “The degree to which they share personal challenges such as mental health issues and ask for constructive feedback is remarkable—and inspiring.”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2% Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 31, 2019

They ask for help when needed and provide honest and constructive feedback. Supportive leaders mentor you, guides you till you need little to no supervision in the future. Organizations now will only thrive in the future under the supervision of leaders who can make sense of uncertainty. Bob Practor. Supportive. Reed Markham.

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Work Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To resolve this, managers should replace their instinct to supervise with habits of support. Pilar Orti , director, Virtual not Distant Rejecting feedback If someone is unwilling to solicit and embrace constructive feedback, then that person is not ready to lead others.

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Workplace Psychology

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Teams need to have clear objectives, meet regularly, participate in constructive debate about how to best serve client needs, share information with one another, coordinate their work, support each other, and review their performance and think about ways to improve it (West, 2008). Leading a team is different from supervising one.

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Workplace Psychology

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Teams need to have clear objectives, meet regularly, participate in constructive debate about how to best serve client needs, share information with one another, coordinate their work, support each other, and review their performance and think about ways to improve it (West, 2008). Leading a team is different from supervising one.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Having a network of colleagues and a mentor in your work environment can help you get that guidance and supervision that your boss isn’t able to provide. When having this discussion, highlight the problems, but also offer concrete and constructive suggestions to improve the situation.”

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 29, 2023

My entry-level employee gave me a bunch of off-base “constructive criticism” I remember writing my letter and being incredibly frustrated because I couldn’t fire her without making a massive stink and throwing my weight around – ah, the joys of middle management. Thank you so much for posting my question last year.

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Minding the Workplace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In addition to protecting the sanctity of free speech, we all should learn and practice how to converse and listen more constructively. Strossen was my supervising professor in the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law, her first academic appointment before moving on to become a constitutional law professor at the New York Law School.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Staff management can be referred to as the task through which a manager supervises and guides the employees. Provide Constructive Criticism. Do keep in mind that the criticism you provide is constructive and positive. Recommended Resource: Tips On How To Give Constructive Criticism. What is Staff Management?

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Supervise everyone’s growth and provide constructive criticism as much as possible to work on their weaknesses. It takes time and practice, but it can be accomplished through dedicated efforts in the long run. Try to hold training sessions highlighting the benefits and positive changes that efficiency brings with it.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 7, 2020

Or, do they need a lot of supervision? Consider you are not giving negative feedback; you are just having a constructive conversation for betterment. Are your employees failing to produce results every month? Are they consistently late to work? Are they inappropriate in the workplace? Do they take more of your time?

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Workplace Psychology

MARCH 6, 2017

Second, there is an important distinction between leading a team versus supervising a team. Leading a team is different from supervising one. Third, when leading or supervising a team, there are several key things to keep in mind: The team must have a purpose and tasks. Supervisors tend to be directive and advice-giving.

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Minding the Workplace

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The Suffolk Law chapter contributed to a constructive dialogue about a contentious topic by offering its stage to us. Nadine began her law teaching career as a supervising professor in the Civil Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law. It was also a pleasure to welcome Nadine to Suffolk.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They are also great at problem solving and often offer constructive feedback. How to Identify: These types of employees like to work alone without supervision. They like innovation and live to create better ways for various things in life. How to Identify: Workers of these categories are always full of ideas in meetings. Free Spirit.

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Fellow

MARCH 15, 2024

As a leader, you should give your employees positive and constructive feedback regularly so they feel valued and can improve their performance. When you give constructive feedback to improve a person’s performance, it’s appropriate to approach the topic without harshness or personal attacks.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 30, 2022

I have a wonderful new staff member (let’s call her Sally) who is leading a project for the first time, which includes supervising the work of one of our other staff members (Jane). Jane has a strong work ethic but — like all of us — has room for growth.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 28, 2019

In here, constructive feedback palys an extremely vital role to employees development. The performance review should act as a summary meeting where the employee is supervised on how well he took and acted on the given feedback. The working of a performance appraisal process starts way before the actual performance evaluation.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For starters it was construction and most of the employees are Christians including myself but my boss is very conservative and I’m more progressive than him or anyone else in the company. I was the resigning employee whose boss told me “it wasn’t very Christian of you” to quit when they were short handed and busy. Now the update!

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Go Burrows

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Because in my mind, I’m like, it actually could be helpful to have some sort of onboarding process for that, for our role, to give us hands on experience, like my wife worked in construction, and she was on the track to be a superintendent. Or is it a, you know, do you actually supervise directly the the assistants? And so nice.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There’s a new metro station and skyscraper being constructed across the street from my office, and I don’t even notice the noise from that anymore. I have been assigned two admin assistants to supervise and I’m tasked with monitoring their schedule and covering the front office. I’m usually good at filtering out all noise.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 19, 2020

I am not an administrative professional but I work in the construction industry. He doesn’t supervise my coworkers, but does supervise their managers. My office includes me in Administrative Professionals Day just because I’m a woman. Administrative Professionals Day is coming up on Wednesday and I am already dreading it.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 21, 2018

A coworker arrived at the same time due to ongoing construction on the roads in her area; she’s not going to record any leave on her timesheet. In some cases, we’ve been friends for five or more years (and I’ve supervised at least one of these people for three years). That’s going to cost me 1.5 hours of sick leave.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I don’t supervise a team anymore, which I miss, but I do have a lot of autonomy to run a regional branch of a federal program (vague enough?). I moved on about six months ago. I still keep casual contact with some of my old team-members. Now I work in a completely different industry.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 26, 2020

I work for a construction company, and quite often I have to submit locate requests in order allow our building crews to dig at job sites (think “Call Before You Dig”/811). Would that have been passing the buck since the sales rep doesn’t supervise the locate request employees? What’s my safety obligation to third party vendors?

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We really want him to do well on our team and we try to provide constructive feedback during this time. I recently started a new job at a start-up, and one of my duties is supervising all internal and external documentation. I have one coworker, Barry who doesn’t do such a great job and hasn’t since he started.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2018

I work for a small construction company — a family-owned business. As luck will have it, our administrative assistant is going an a two-week leave and I will be taking over a lot of her tasks and wanted to leave Alex to supervise and support the team in that time. My coworker is getting much more vacation time than the rest of us.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2020

She’s on a work trial so I’m meant to do supervision meetings with her every other week. My desk area needed a couple tweaks, one of which the construction company said should be done by whatever technology company we use. But she keeps bringing it up.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 14, 2019

I am in a role supervising a team of multimedia instructional designers. After a second yearly evaluation wherein it was clear she had nothing constructive, relevant, or informed to say about anything I had done for yet another year, I asked for help from HR. I’m being sent to management training I don’t need.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

First, I found a supervising psychiatrist with tapering experience, which is vanishingly rare in Australia. Almost nothing is known about people like me, first prescribed in the shining-future moment of magazine cover stories when SSRIs seemed a silver bullet for complex mental issues, and then left to rot for decades.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 19, 2022

The masons would teach about construction techniques used to build various structures. Apprenticeship training is typically given to technical employees such as mechanics, electricians, artisans, welders, and others who work for a longer time under the supervision of professionals in each sector. Pyramids building is a great example.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 30, 2019

This position supervises several folks, and one of them in particular is … quirky. I was not given any insight into his behavior when I started here, so I spent the first few years that I supervised him frustrated and, frankly, unsure why our clients loved him so much. Should I give the newbie the heads-up on this?

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

I believe in providing constructive feedback because I know I would have wanted someone to help me when I was feeling helpless but I’m curious what your thoughts are on feedback that isn’t an error like a bad objective. We both interviewed, along with five other candidates. No decisions have been made.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

But there’s a point where chronic complaining stops being constructive (especially if it’s in a context where nothing actionable is happening). They are paid the full rate, I supervise and QA their work, and they get some excellent experience. More here. I don’t want to work with an anti-vax sub-contractor.

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