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Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage

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As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks. The challenge is establishing a proper workplace balance that allows some personal internet usage without a related drag on business efficiency.

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Before You Try to Change Your Organization, Understand Why People Fight it So Fiercely

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Change is hard. Changing your organization is even harder – sometimes, nearly impossible. In doing the research for my new book, I discovered that a study at livescience.com revealed that nearly half of all smokers who have had surgery for early stage lung cancer go back to smoking in just a year! Jolt! : Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing by Phil Cooke.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

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Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … The graph below (see Figure 1) may seem boring, but it is the very reason I wake up excited every morning. (Clearly, I live a very exciting life.) It is also the basis of the research underlying this book. This is a scatter-plot diagram. Each dot represents an individual, and each axis represents some variable.

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Ten Ways to Engage Your Workforce in 2012

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As we start a new year, leaders will once again ask themselves how they can engage their people – often asking employees to do more with less. Let me start by observing that you can’t motivate people. You need to hire motivated top performers and then make sure you don’t demotivate them. Here are some ways to ensure you don’t: Landing in the Executive Chair : How to Excel in the Hot Seat by Linda Henman In today’s fast-paced, unprecedented, and unpredictable economy, many executives

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People Quit Their Boss… Not the Company!

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When I give my ‘No Nonsense Retention’ speech to groups across the country, I get frustrated feedback from audience members about poor leadership hurting retention in their organization. Regardless of the level of leadership you hold in the organization, you will drive yourself crazy if you try to solve all of the location or facilities problems; much less the rest of the organization.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

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In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. This lack of buy-in trickles down and pretty soon everyone is at odds with the change because not having been in the initial ideation sessions, they don’t see any value.

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Recommended Resource – Getting to Yes

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Getting to Yes : Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury About the Reference Getting to Yes : Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury recognizes that professionals are in a frequent state of negotiation and provides them with the tools needed to achieve a desirable outcome. This book probes many diverse negotiation circumstances from both sides of the debate and offers constructive, easy-to-follow methods to achieve one’s desi