Category Archives: Management, Supervision & Leadership

A Guide to Burnout for Friends and Supervisors

With all the change in the world and across workplaces, it is likely that most friends and supervisors know someone experiencing burnout.  This article gives tips for recognizing and supporting others. Detecting Signs of Burnout Here are 10 signs that someone you care about or lead may be experiencing burnout: Decreased productivity: If an employee…
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Learning From Failure

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Most Pryor blog articles are pretty positive – we want to emphasize and build on your strengths, and approach your continuous learning and development through an encouraging lens.  Appreciating and leveraging the positive options ahead creates a spirit of optimism and motivation. And yet, sometimes, we all fail at work.  It hurts, it is disappointing…
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Three Lenses of Effective Leadership

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Leadership is a complex and multifaceted activity that requires a combination of skills, traits, perspectives, and behaviors.  In this article, we look at leadership through three different lenses: personality, emotion and social awareness.  Each offers a different source of insights to help us bring our best selves to the challenge of leadership.   The Lens…
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Factors in Designing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Program

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Organizations continue to recognize the benefits of a diverse team: broader talent pools, deeper dialogue, more holistic views of the customer perspective, and more complete decision-making.  To better define and implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, organizations are conducting assessments, bringing in training and implementing changes on both systemic and personal levels.   In…
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Learning from a Hybrid Team: A Case Study in Transition

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In this article, we look at a real organization that is evolving into a high-performing hybrid team, to see what lessons we can learn. Here’s the situation.   The Background: Growing Amidst Challenges At the start of 2020, the All-Star Organization (or ASO) was a fully in-person technical consulting organization of 45 people. Team members…
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Three Key Dimensions of Organizational Goals

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Organizational goal planning is a common activity that can happen any time of the year – but the New Year is a particularly good time for teams to regroup and reassess.  In this article, we provide a quick reminder of the general process involved in organizational planning, and then focus on the content of the…
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