constructive

(adjective)

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

Related Terms

  • feedback
  • euphemism

Examples of constructive in the following topics:

  • Delivering Constructive Feedback

    • Constructive feedback, both positive and negative, can help individuals learn and improve their performance.
    • Knowing how to deliver constructive feedback is an important skill for a manager and leader.
    • Constructive feedback motivates many who use it to change their behavior, study new things, or adopt new attitudes.
    • After receiving constructive feedback, an individual decides whether and how to put it to use.
    • Employ constructive feedback in conjunction with the varying control functions available to managers in an organization
  • Constructive Team Conflict

    • Team members and others can follow a few guidelines for encouraging constructive conflict.
  • Overview of Strategic Planning Tools

    • It is useful to construct pro forma financial statements, which illustrate expected costs and revenues.
    • Scenario planning is an interesting tool with which strategists construct various scenarios to test out the potential trajectories of specific operational plans.
    • An excellent tool for strategists pursuing a particularly risky venture is to develop the primary objectives and strategy while simultaneously constructing a contingency plan that will limit the negative effects of failure.
    • The SMART model identifies specific goals, measures inputs and outputs, ensures that the goals are attainable and relevant to the mission of the company, and constructs a timeline.
  • Building a Diverse Workforce

    • This understanding must be applied in constructing effective teams and adaptable mentalities that will remain highly compatible with a complex global workplace.
    • From a general standpoint, retaining diverse employees begins with constructing a workplace conducive to variance in ethnic backgrounds and values.
    • Keeping this human resources framework in mind for constructing a multicultural workplace is a critical element to the success of businesses in a rapidly globalizing market.
  • Key Behaviors of Transactional Leaders

  • The Manager's Role in Group Decisions

    • The manager can help establish norms about how members will interact with each other to foster constructive discourse.
  • The Mission Statement

    • Outline the appropriate content necessary to construct a comprehensive mission statement
  • Assessing an Organization's Technological Needs

    • This internal technology assessment also includes noting when and whether it is necessary to construct employee training programs for new technology.
  • The Challenge of Technology

    • Organization: Businesses are constructed under the assumption of synergy.
    • The capacity to forecast up-and-coming technologies to construct an investment road map that always keeps the competition a technological step behind
  • Building a Culture of High Performance

    • Positive atmosphere – Wherever possible, make sure the general perspective is one of constructive commentary.
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