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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

.   Also, with the Centers for Disease Control's recommendation of universal influenza vaccination for everyone over six months in age, the flu shot is sure to be an important part of your organization's health and wellness plan this year.  Quite frankly, companies today cannot afford preventable losses in productivity. 

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3 Practices to Protect Your People from Toxic Stress and Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

While she was in the midst of six rounds of chemotherapy at our local hospital that spring, we chose to go to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for a second opinion on her treatment plan. billion in 2011. I expected Sloan Kettering would be a bleak environment that reeked of death and dying. It was anything but.

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Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday

Kevin Eikenberry

Are you an absentee leader, leaving your team to “do their work&# ? Environment matters to productivity, job satisfaction, retention, collaboration, creativity and more. As a leader, you set the tone and are the most important regulator of the environment. What environment are you choosing to create? Decide to engage.

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Attention Seekers…just recognition hungry or bullies in disguise.

Roundtable Talk

Watch for signs of bullying … high absentee rates, continual staff turnover, individuals afraid to speak up in front of particular people. Share specific examples of what bullying looks like. Have an anti-bullying policy written down as part of your employee handbook. Prohibit actions like tantrums, screaming, and threats.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

Systems fail to reach their full potential and people become frustrated, which results in pushback, absenteeism, and low productivity. Plan to listen and build in opportunities to ask for reactions. In his book entitled Influence by Robert Cialdini he explains that one of the most influential words in the English language is ‘because’.

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The U.S. Isn’t Just Getting Older. It’s Getting More Segregated by Age.

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 study from MetLife and the National Association of Homebuilders found that nearly one-third of people over the age of 55 live in communities that entirely or mostly comprise people 55 and older. Its cofounders, Noelle Marcus and Rachel Goor, are recent graduates of MIT’s city planning program.