Hello Waggle Community!

World kindness day is observed on the 13th of November and this is a great time for leaders to reinforce desired behaviours.

This month we discuss steps to help your team become and stay motivated. Subtler demotivators may be harder to minimize and even the most motivated employee can hit a wall if they’re running on fumes for too long.

We enjoyed this interview last month in our "Grown, not Born" leadership series where we got a refreshing take on retention and how it shouldn’t be the ultimate measure of a leader’s success.

Be kind together at work

Here are 10 simple ways you can celebrate ‘World Kindness’ day with your team.

1. Be kind to yourself

2. Show enthusiastic support for someone’s idea

3. Organize a team building activity

4. Share a professional development book to a colleague

5. Offer to be a mentor

6. Say hello to a new team member

7. Thank someone who helped you with a task

8. Give a shout-out to someone on another team

9. Share a compliment during the team meeting

10. Start and end meetings on time

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Guidance to help your team become and stay motivated

Motivating yourself is hard enough. Motivating other people? 

Forget about it. ‍ 

And yet, it's your responsibility as a manager to keep team members motivated through the ups and downs of your organization so they can reach peak performance in their roles. ‍ 

Follow these 6 steps to help your team become and stay motivated.

1. Identify and minimize demotivators

2. Set clear goals and expectations from the onset

3. Understand how each team member ‘ticks’

4. Create a work environment they want to work in

5. Provide regular feedback, recognition and encouragement

6. Know how to spot burnout.

1. Keep tabs on what keeps your team up and what brings them down

2. Employees feel motivated when they know exactly what they’re working toward.

3. Which one of those drives you may be different from what drives your team member.

4. A healthy work environment and job satisfaction is the perfect base for motivation

5. A good manager makes sure their team gets plenty of positive and effective feedback

6. Understand what burnout can look like and what’s causing it

What is new on the app

In-person recordings

Before, our app could only analyze meetings when each person joined from their own device, so we could tell who was speaking. Now, we’ve made it possible to record and analyze in-person meetings even if participants are sharing one microphone.

This update makes it easier to capture and get insights from any meeting; whether online or in person, without needing multiple devices.

Next meeting review

Our new "Next Meeting Review" feature on your personal dashboard helps you get ready for upcoming meetings so they’re as effective as possible.

If your next meeting is a one-on-one, for example, Waggle AI will highlight skills for you to work on based on past feedback from similar meetings. You can pick one skill to focus on, and you’ll get personalized tips to help improve.

Plus, the feature will remind you of any prep work needed—like setting an agenda or adding action items—so you can go into the meeting fully prepared.

Essential Reads from Our Blog 

In our latest "Grown, not Born" series, Tom Davenport talks about the importance of really taking the time to understand what matters to each team member. Every person has different drivers, whether it's career growth, flexibility, lower stress, or something else. Making an effort to understand these motivations helps structure your team in the most effective way.

Warm regards,

Sarah Touzani

Co-founder, Waggle

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