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Are You Living in Conflict Debt?

Leading Blog

She covers issues that the U Tool can help to neutralize like the absentee boss and micromanaging. In this case, you become the absentee boss and set your team up to fail. Introducing productive conflict will take the pressure off, encourage cooperation and help you get things done. So often we see teams living in conflict debt.

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The Mental Health Impact Of A Toxic Workplace

The Horizons Tracker

Toxic workplaces have many consequences, from a fall in productivity and cooperation to sinking morale and employee engagement. Research from the University of South Australia highlights the impact they can also have on our mental health. Indeed, the study found that the risk of depression rose by around 300% in such workplaces.

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Win/Win: Workplace Well-Being Boosts Company-Well Being

The Practical Leader

Well-being is strongly linked to absenteeism. Union and Management Cooperation — making psychological health and safety a shared objective, psychologically safe collective bargaining, and 20 questions for unions on psychological safety. .” Higher well-being leads to improved relationships and greater social capabilities.

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It’s What Many Leaders Don’t Do That Make Them Uninspiring

The Practical Leader

Cooperation and teamwork is slipping along with energy and engagement levels. Absenteeism is soaring and customer service as well as productivity levels are sliding. His sins of leadership omission are dragging people and performance down. Despite his strengths, Derek’s become a bad boss.

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Why do some persist and some quit? Because…

Strategy Driven

Cooperation. Sympathy, understanding, and harmonious cooperation with others tend to develop persistence. Give your prospect a list of things he or she can do to improve morale, productivity, absenteeism, or profit. Will-power. Get your prospect a sales lead or give them a referral. Help them win. Get the idea? See the work?

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Burnout at Work Isn’t Just About Exhaustion. It’s Also About Loneliness

Harvard Business Review

And both the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and the Gallup Organization have shown the extreme costs to companies of disengagement: almost 37% higher absenteeism, 49% more accidents, 16% lower profitability, and a 65% lower share price over time. So what can leaders and employees do?

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Why Bad Guys Win at Work

Harvard Business Review

In a recent study on representative German businesses, narcissism was positively linked to salary, while Machiavellianism was positively linked to leadership level and career satisfaction. In addition, dark triad traits tend to enhance competitiveness, if only by inhibiting cooperation and altruistic behaviors at work.