Manager Tips: Model the Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
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For Managers
Conseils aux gestionnaires : En matière de saines habitudes de vie, prêchez par l’exemple
Incitez les membres de votre équipe à adopter et à conserver de saines habitudes simplement en adoptant vous-même de bonnes habitudes de vie. Quel type d’habitudes souhaitez-vous transmettre aux membres de votre équipe? Voici quelques habitudes que vous pouvez adopter pour devenir un leader plus efficace : Cernez les mauvais comportements dont vous faites preuve devant votre équipe, comme arriver en retard aux réunions, travailler tard ou consommer des boissons sucrées lors des réunions, et essayez de les corriger. Lors des réunions d’équipe et individuelles, présentez les ressources du site WellBeingAtAECOM.com
Manager Tips: Model the Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
Empower your team members to create and maintain healthy habits simply by practicing healthy habits yourself. What type of habits are you modeling for your team? Here are some habits to pursue to become a more effective leader: Identify and change unhealthy habits you may be modeling in front of your team, such as joining meetings late, working long hours or drinking sugary drinks in meetings. During team and one-on-one meetings, share WellBeingAtAECOM.com and AECOM University resources that can help your team create healthy habits. Consider recommending resources as part
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Manager Tips: Create a Safe Space to Work
Providing a safe space where employees feel comfortable being and expressing their most authentic selves is integral to the well-being of our employees and organization. Teams in which employees feel safe both physically and psychologically benefit from higher levels of trust, resilience, creativity and engagement. Here are five ways to create both physical and psychological safety on your team: Review this manager presentation and these FAQs to get familiar with the global resources available to support your employees’ mental health and discover resources to support your own mental health. Review
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Manager Tips: Building Strong Connections
The importance of building strong connections in the workplace should not be underestimated. Studies show that close bonds at work lead to higher performance, enhance well-being and improve work satisfaction by 50%. As those connections deepen, employee engagement also increases. Managers play an important role in building and helping employees build deeper team connections. Although building connections can take time, here are 5 actions you can take to begin fostering deeper connections with your team members. Provide opportunities for your team to have fun (outside of work) Bring your team
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Manager Tips: Support and Encourage Healthy Sleep
Rest and restoration are critical to our physical and mental health. In addition to enhancing memory, reducing stress and anxiety and strengthening the immune system, high quality sleep reduces fatigue, helping employees perform better at work and practice one of AECOM’s core values, safety, in their personal and professional lives. Here are 5 actions you can take as a manager to support and encourage healthy sleep habits within your team. Know the warning signs of fatigue. Fatigued workers can put themselves and other workers at risk. Review these 7 signs
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Manager Tips: Lead with Kindness
Small acts of kindness benefit the receiver, the giver and the whole organization, contributing to a positive workplace culture and improving the collective well-being of AECOM employees, their loved ones and communities. As a manager, you can help promote kindness among your team, which can create a ripple effect throughout the workplace. Here are 5 actions you can take to encourage your team members to be kind to one another and themselves. Encourage your team to embrace kindness. Play a game of Kindness Bingo with your team members and then
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Manager Tips: Emphasize the Power of Prevention
Well-being requires taking care of the mind, body and finances. Because these are all interrelated, taking a preventive approach in each of these areas can significantly enhance overall employee well-being. In addition to saving lives, preventive care saves individuals and organizations money by catching chronic diseases and life-threatening illnesses when they are easier and less costly to treat. It can also help prevent burnout and financial situations that cause absenteeism, stress and dissatisfaction, thus leading to happier, healthier and more productive teams. Here are 5 actions you can take as
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Manager Tips: Be a Role Model for Mindful Eating
Mindfulness is the ability to bring your whole self – mind and body – to an experience. You can practice mindfulness in many aspects of life – including eating. When you encourage employees to practice mindful eating you are supporting their physical, emotional, social and even planet, well-being. Mindful eating can help individuals make healthier food choices and avoid emotional eating, and even get more enjoyment from their meals. Here are five ways you can bring mindfulness to mealtime with your team: Be mindful in YOUR eating. Be a model
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Manager Tips: Be a Model for Social Responsibility
A critical part of taking care of our well-being is taking care of the world around us. Being socially responsible – that is, doing good for the community and the environment – has a positive impact all around. Not only can we help protect our planet and improve the lives of others, activities like volunteering also help lower stress and increase happiness. Plus, providing volunteering opportunities in the workplace and cultivating a culture of giving also increases employee engagement and job satisfaction. Here are five actions you can take as
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