Alexander in Team Leadership & Management — 3 min read

At Weekdone, we believe in always improving ourselves and our customers so that all of us can become better at what we do. Here is the list of the best in-depth leadership themed articles we found this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

Creating happy teams with supportive leadership

5 Crucial Leadership Responsibilities for Team Leaders

The duties and responsibilities of a leader consist of 2 major categories: leadership and management. Managerial skills are those ones that might annoy everybody else, but keep things in tight order like following company processes, reporting meetings, making sure everybody knows the KPI’s. Identifying what responsibilities you have as a leader and manager is critical. Here is my take on the 5 most crucial leadership responsibilities for any team leader.

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5 ways Bayer avoids internal email headaches

Russell Working writes that “In a large organization stretched across multiple locations, getting email into the right hands at the right time is one of communicators’ greatest challenges. This goes double for a heavily regulated life sciences company such as Bayer U.S., which has a U.S. workforce of just over 20,000 employees.”

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How to truly get the most from your employees

Virginia Mathews writes that “Trade-off between what workers want and what’s good for the business is becoming a trickier balancing act for leaders. Yet the causes of a toxic workplace are far more likely to be about cultural failings, which are largely fixable, rather than salaries, which are often not.”

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3 Key Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a Social Media Analytics Tool

Finding the right tool for your social media analytics is a hard task. As there are many, many different options and there is no way to demo them all. Nitan Jain formulates the questions you can ask yourself to make that process much easier.

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The Tyranny of the Status Quo

“Organizations are failing their people by creating — and losing — an imaginary war for talent;” writes Todd M. Warner, founder of Like Minds Advisory. This article shows how companies are failing to improve their employee and get the most out of their workforce.

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I hope you like these articles as much as we do. And if you stumble upon a great article that we should feature here, let us know.