CULTIVATE OPPORTUNITY - Manager Edition Activities
Below you will find group activities that align with the Toolkit process and resources. These activities are designed to enhance coaching efforts with new employees. Feel free to adjust and adapt to meet the needs of your employees. Have fun!
DEVELOP PEER RELATIONSHIPS
People who have friends at work are more likely to be happy and enjoy their job. However, young employees may not have an understanding of how to maintain healthy boundaries as they develop relationships with coworkers.
If you want to reinforce the importance of this action step with your team, you might implement a brief “each one, teach, one” activity at your next team meeting.
Ask each employee to review one of the following resources and prepare a 60 second “snapshot” of the resource to share at the next meeting.
Self-awareness = being aware of your own feelings and behaviors.
Practice mindfulness. Check out this infographic.Emotional Intelligence = ability to understand and manage your own emotions.
Respond instead of react. Check out this Medium article.
Develop empathy skills. Need strategies? Read this article.Healthy Boundaries = boundaries that help you maintain stability and health.
Don’t get involved in drama. (Here’s resource for developing boundaries)
TIP: Encourage employees to be creative with their snapshots and go outside the box. Draw, sing, act, even dance out the info. People learn best when they are having fun and the mood is light.
CONNECT WITH A MENTOR
Encourage your employees to conduct informational interviews as a way to connect with a professional mentor.
Here is an Indeed resource with step-by-step instructions for informational interviews.
If an employee is interested in conducting an informational interview, leverage your network to help them make good connections.
WORK ACROSS GENERATIONS
Often intergenerational differences show up as personal conflict. Help your young employees understand what to expect from different generations of coworkers and supervisors.
MANAGE UP
One strategy that some organizations have found successful in helping employees manage relationships with coworkers and supervisors is for all employees to create a “user manual” that you can turn into a team playbook.
Check out the step-by-step activity from Attlasian here.
GROW YOUR NETWORK
Networking isn’t always something that comes naturally, but it is one of the most important ways you can grow your career. Help new employees understand the benefits of networking and maintaining connections. Here are two great resources:
