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How to Improve Your Organization’s Culture Through Employee Connections

Michael Lee Stallard

Article Published by Forbes I believe it’s wise for leaders to develop their organizational culture by being intentional about strengthening the bonds of connection and trust among leaders and employees. For example, do team members understand that the quality of connection can affect the level of cooperation and collaboration?

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The Role Connection Plays in a Democracy

Michael Lee Stallard

Can we embrace the spirit of E Pluribus Unum and move forward in 2021 as people who value connection, cooperation and making progress together toward the common good? underscore the need for cultures of connection to become the norm in our communities, workplaces and governing bodies. .

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s natural to gravitate toward, and develop bonds with, people who look like, talk like, and think like we do. History suggests that women will not be able to fully dismantle the ceiling by sheer force of will and talent without the active contribution and cooperation of male leaders. Bill Treasurer diversity leadership'

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The Four Stages of Becoming a Team Player

Great Results Team Building

Heroes such as Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and even James Bond seem to be icons of rugged individuality and independence. Teamwork is defined as the coordinated activities of a cohesive group who contribute diverse skills and resources to accomplish a compelling common goal. Our culture has not always emphasized the value of teamwork.

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Conflict Keeps Teams at the Top of Their Game

Harvard Business Review

Instead, managers need to know how to create teams that feel psychologically safe enough for conflicting opinions to be aired and the benefits of diversity exploited. Teams composed of high-performing individuals are naturally subject to contradictory tensions, like cooperation and rivalry, trust and vigilance. Second, be creative.

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COVID-19 Has Revealed What We Need More of in Business: The Female Brain

Strategy Driven

It’s waking us up to the global leadership and cooperation that’s required to ensure our human survival. Neurochemically, women’s brains and bodies contain far greater quantities of oxytocin, the bonding hormone. The coronavirus crisis is a wake-up call. For men, the quantities of testosterone are far higher.

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Turn Your Group into a True Team

Harvard Business Review

By going beyond mere cooperation and coordination, collective work produces more innovative and productive outcomes that exceed the simple sum of individual efforts. They not only think and act collectively, but the social and emotional bonds among them are compelling.

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