Michael Lee Stallard

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How to Improve Your Organization’s Culture Through Employee Connections

Michael Lee Stallard

As the president of a company that helps coach leaders on improving connections within their businesses, I have seen the importance of strengthening bonds and trust among team members. He’s committed to helping them learn and grow through training programs and a mentoring network. or “How can we do this even better?”

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Healing Our Workplaces through Cultures of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

Train, resource, and empower leaders and managers to promote connection in the workplace and implement programs that foster connection. We provide keynote speeches, and half-day and one-day interactive workshops and training on creating a culture of connection. We wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Murthy’s assessment.

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

Costco promotes from within and invests in apprentice-like training to develop employees and give them opportunities for advancement. ” These include Oprah Winfrey as she led her media companies, Tricia Griffith of Progressive Insurance, Alan Mulally when he was CEO of Ford Motor Company, CNO Admiral Vernon Clark of the U.S.

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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Michael Lee Stallard

We most recently made the case for Connection Cultures in “ The Science of Engagement ” that appeared in the Spring edition of Training Industry Quarterly. The first article is based on interviews I recently did of Anne Mulcahy, the former CEO of Xerox who led the company’s miraculous turnaround.

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SkillSoft to Film Videos on Employee Engagement, Strategic Alignment

Michael Lee Stallard

Skillsoft has 10 million licensed users that represent 55 percent of the Fortune 500 and 24 percent of the Global 2000 organizations in business, government, and education. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Is the “Silent Killer” Sabotaging Your Performance?

Michael Lee Stallard

Recent research by Cigna , the insurance company, found that more than half of Americans are lonely. In an earlier SmartBrief article, I wrote about Costco’s Connection Culture and how it helped the organization surpass Google to be recognized as America’s best large company employer (according to research by Forbes and Statista).

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A New Theory of Management

Michael Lee Stallard

Late last year I had a telephone conversation with Alan Mulally, the CEO who led the turnaround of the Ford Motor Company. She shared with me how after years of working in organizations with cultures that were indifferent to the humanity of people she decided to create the type of culture she wanted to work in by starting her own company.