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Manager Tips: Boost Your Team’s Commitment to Sustainability

Keeping our planet healthy takes all of us working together. By encouraging employees to think globally and act locally, we can take small steps toward big change. Here are some positive ways you can boost your team’s commitment to sustainability. Bring plants into your office — whether at home or onsite. All plants absorb carbon dioxide, so the more plants we grow, the more carbon dioxide is absorbed. Ditch the disposables and switch to reusable. Encourage team members working onsite to bring their own mugs, bowls, water bottles and utensils. […]

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Manager Tips: Challenge Your Team to Save

Keeping finances under control can be a challenge — especially when expenses increase unexpectedly. These changes can lead to financial stress, which may negatively affect an employee’s performance, their ability to focus at work, and their productivity. Helping your employees improve their financial well-being can reduce stress levels and enable them to thrive both personally and professionally. There are many simple things we can all do to reduce our spending (and our stress), and it’s more fun to take these steps together than on our own. That’s why we’ve created

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Manager Tips: Spread Kindness

Kindness is a powerful driver of positive workplace culture. Spreading kindness within your team can help team members feel more connected with each other, even when working remotely or in different locations. It can also reduce stress and lead to increased productivity. 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

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Manager Tips: Build Resilience

Change — and the challenge that comes with it — is inevitable in organizations, as well as in life. By building resilience, we can equip ourselves and our teams to deal with change in a healthy way, and even grow from change. Here are some ways you and your team can build resilience: Promote a healthy balance between work and life. The more we build in time for things that relax and recharge us, like family and self-care, the better we’ll be able to focus and manage demanding or unexpected

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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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