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High Morale Doesn’t Guarantee Employee Retention

Chart Your Course

High morale may not correlate with retention, recent studies suggest. based employees described morale at their organization as “very good” or “good” in a November 2012 Accountemps survey. and Canada, however, 86 percent of respondents said they “intend to actively seek a new position.”. Communication Is Key.

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The Positive Runs Out

The Recovering Engineer

During the training class, I made the point that only positive reinforcements encourage people to give high-level, maximum effort. If you stop giving encouragement, praise, and other positive input to people; eventually the positive runs out.&# Me: “Yes, that’s exactly my point.&# Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0

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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. It has it all: leaders, stinky fish, a funny picture, a bit of personal history and a moral.". Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011".

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Set Your 2011 Goals In Two Steps. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Set Your 2011 Goals In Two Steps. And the rest of 2011. Take a sheet of paper ( or use my template ) and list three (3) things you would like to accomplish in 2011.

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Focus on the positive. When faced with a situation that seems dire.

Sales Wolf Blog

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week | Main | Possibility Maximizer: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande » June 18, 2010 Focus on the positive.

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How The Government Influences Media Coverage Of Business

The Horizons Tracker

This conclusion was reached after looking at the coverage the 26 largest banks received between 2007 and 2011 in the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Media 101
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The Perfect Brand Slogan | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. Nabob was positioned as the brand that took endless care to select only the best coffee beans for its blends. Jack Welch’s replacement wanted ‘Innovation at Work’ — not bad for culture and corporate morale, but in my view, short on consumer relativity.

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