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The Right Way to Cut Costs

HR Digest

It is important to consider the impact on employee morale and the overall productivity of the remaining workforce. By involving employees in the decision-making process and providing support during transitions, you can minimize the negative impact on morale and productivity.

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Disarm Your Audience When You Present

Harvard Business Review

The audience is. So expect them to resist. Resistance doesn't have to be a bad thing. In fact, if you prepare for it, you'll sharpen your presentation and stand a much better chance of winning your audience over. Practical resistance: Is it physically or geographically difficult for the audience to do what you're asking?

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How Leaders Can Cure A Toxic Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Recently, one challenge in particular caught my attention as it was brought forth by both a reader of my leadership blog and by an audience member at a talk I gave last week. The challenge in question was what do you do if you have to lead a team in a toxic workplace setting? And how can you overcome this to effectively lead your employees?

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The Importance of Developing a Leadership Strategy in Times of Change

Experience to Lead

Your approach to creating a leadership development strategy must consider your audience and how they will best respond to your leadership style. Feeling heard also makes us feel valued which in turn boosts staff morale and incentivizes your team to work toward a common goal. Here are some of the key things to consider.

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18 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Joseph Lalonde

This resistance to change can be due to their desire of wanting to be liked, of wanting to avoid failure, or because they feel change is bad. This helped audience members know where they were in the universe. Watch the small moral failures as they open up the possibility of major failure. CAUTION: Rogue One spoilers ahead!

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How to Get Employees to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Harvard Business Review

And when he found that the system was buying ads for audiences that didn’t fit the company’s customer profile, he stormed in to his boss’s office and yelled, “I don’t want men and women over 55 buying our product! It’s not our audience!” The vendor scrambled to give him the controls he wanted.

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The Books That Impacted My Life In 2014

Joseph Lalonde

unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgement or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions. The biggest one takeaway is that we have to push through even when we feel resistance. Most often that resistance is trying to hold you back rather than protect you.

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