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Why Your Company’s Culture Should Go Far Beyond a Mission Statement

CEO Insider

During my company’s first six years, my only exposure to culture was a boring session on the subject at a minor conference. I thought we were mature enough to self-manage. To me, culture seemed like so much marketing fluff. I didn’t see the point—my people and I were all grown adults, after all. It wasn’t […].

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How To Help Your Team Focus & Eliminate Distractions.

Rich Gee Group

Send the team home early on Friday, take them out to lunch, and go for a walk instead of meeting in a conference room. Group experienced, mature employees with the newer, novice associates to give them someone to mentor and train. Limit distractions. Collaboration and cooperation keep team members focused and motivated.

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How to Stop a Workplace Bully (Without Losing Your Lunch Money)

Let's Grow Leaders

So I went to a conference room and called one of my colleagues and decided to be vulnerable and ask for help to process what had happened. with part of the client team in the conference room. He was really personal in the attacks. I was new in this position. And, even if I had been wrong, it was a horrible way to behave.

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The Impact Of Covid On The Research Community Could Last Many Years

The Horizons Tracker

However, given the long gestation time for new research ideas to mature and be published, the decline in new projects suggests that the impact of the pandemic may not manifest in the publication record for years.” “As researchers ourselves, we often meet new collaborators at conferences and dinners,” the researchers say.

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When Transparency Goes Too Far

Let's Grow Leaders

I see examples of pre-mature disclosure wreaking havoc all the time. This week, the Winning Well tour stopped in CA for the ICMI conference. It’s too much information, precisely because there was not enough information. All my client received was enough insight to cause stress, uncertainty and disruption.

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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

I once had a boss who called me and all of my peers to remind us to “call Joan” and congratulate her on the award she received at the sales conference. If you have to tell your otherwise mature leaders to congratulate the person you are rewarding, you might be recognizing the wrong person.

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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Rather than radio, television, automobiles, or wars defining their worldview, the Millennials matured in the age of the internet, social networking, and the pursuit of individualism via consumerism (more on this later). Millennials matured during the era of super-celebrities and reality television.