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Manager Tips: Build Financial Literacy

According to a 2020 report of the U.S. workforce, financial matters are the top cause of stress for employees, and employees who are financially stressed are more likely to be distracted and less productive at work. Financial stress also has a tremendous negative impact on employee well-being, especially their mental and physical health. To help our employees alleviate their financial stress, a good place to start is by helping them build their financial literacy — that is, the knowledge and skills needed to make good financial decisions. Financial literacy includes […]

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Manager Tips: Support Employees Who are Supporting Others

More than 70 million people around the world are caregivers of children, grandchildren, elderly parents and other special needs adults. While caregiving is often rewarding and joyful, it comes with significant challenges especially for caregivers who also have professional responsibilities. Even in the best of times, balancing caregiving and work can create significant stress, anxiety and even depression as well as physical and physical well-being hardships. Unfortunately, many working parents worry that their caregiving responsibilities will have a negative impact on their careers, and a staggering 42% fear using company-provided

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Manager Tips: Create Team Bonds by Thinking Outside the Office

One of the best ways to build trust and cohesion in your team is to get them out of the office to engage in team building activities. Here are a few ways to get your team bonding with each other and nature. Facilitate a scavenger hunt: Have your team pair up and then complete a list of activities. It could be random acts of kindness or a fun and safe photo challenge (e.g., take a photo petting a stranger’s dog with permission or take photos of specific plants and flowers).

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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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