Imagine you have a low engagement employee. We all know who they are. They’re the people who show up for work with their body, but they leave their hearts and minds at home. I refer to them as the quit and stays. They quit caring, but they stay in.
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Organizations operate on two levels. There are the presenting facts and metrics, these are readily observed and measured. Then there are the nuances, the attitude of the players, their focus, or lack thereof, the details and daily conversations. These seemingly behind the scenes subtleties are what makes or breaks.
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When Glenn Close uttered this drop-dead line in The Wife, I laughed out loud at the horrible truth. In the movie, Close was advising her husband, a famous author, not to anger a reporter. Her husband, a powerful famous man, seemed oblivious as to how his treatment of a.
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“There’s no point arguing, she’s already got her mind set.” I hear this from employees who have a boss with a strong personality. I recently wrote about why conflict avoiders find themselves in continual conflict (because they never address the root cause). The preponderance of comments came from bosses.
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Steve knew he was facing a challenge. As he walked into the budget meeting, he squared his shoulders and took a deep breath. The facts were on his side. Now it was time to convince the rest of the senior team, and, most importantly, his CEO. The challenge at.
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Praise in public, critique in private. It’s Management 101. Most decent leaders know it’s detrimental to reprimand employees in public. It’s unkind and does not improve performance. What’s less talked about though, is the impact public critique has on the person who is giving it. I was recently working.
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Do you like conflict? Most people don’t. But sometimes, trying to keep the peace simply prolongs the problem. I was working with a leadership team who had problems with the IT department. They were reluctant to openly express their frustrations to the IT leader (their peer) because he was.
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There’s your life, and there’s the way you process your life. We all have an outside life and an inside life. While the events of our life are happening, there’s a parallel interior talk track accompanying them. Here are two mental shifts that will help you experience more happiness,.
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How often do you indulge your creative spirit? Creativity makes you happier and successful. Yet for many people, their work is devoid of creativity. Sometimes it seems like organizations specialize in sucking the creative spark out of people. Roles and departments get siloed and with no outside creative energy,.
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Do you have trouble getting started? Whether it’s writing a report, scoping a big IT project, or simply welling up the energy to clean out your closet, many of us procrastinate because we’re simply not in the mood to start. As a writer, I’m well acquainted with the perils.
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