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Creating a Winning Corporate Culture Through People Power

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Employees who feel understood and appreciated are often more productive and willing go that extra mile on behalf of a client. By showing your team that you care about their well-being, it will result in increased job satisfaction and productivity. Production glue has seen a double-digit revenue increase for over a decade.

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How to Rapidly Resolve Crises in Your Business

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Guest post from Nat Greene: You can probably remember a dozen times just like this: you’re at the head of a conference table with a haggard, tired team sitting about you. You’ll be able to implement it with greater speed, confidence, and consensus than if you were trying out the best idea that bubbled up in your conference room.

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Mining Diamonds by Purposeful Walk-arounds

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Guest post by regular Great Leadership contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: One of my clients recently returned from the Baptist Leadership Conference and during his management meeting he was reporting back on his learnings from the conference and what he intended on implementing. What product/service causes the most problems for you?

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Set Expectations To Ensure Success

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The client had scheduled a press conference to announce the new product and give a brief demo. He took his trusted product manager and they searched the building for power breakers that they could pull during the press conference to buy them time. They needed a plan B and they needed it ASAP.

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Gauging an Employee’s Emotional Well-Being in a Virtual World: Warning Signs and Ways to Help

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Guest post by Guy Casablanca: Much has been written lately about how leaders can gauge productivity and performance in a virtual world. In the work environment, Zoom sessions have replaced conference room meetings, and email exchanges have replaced in-person interactions.

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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

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Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. To a very large extent, these are the product of the discretionary effort of clever people. When they are involved, people tend to be more engaged, innovative and productive.

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The $15 Billion Leadership Mistake

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These unhappy employees have cost organizations nearly $7 trillion dollars in lost productivity. Yet most programs for leaders are geared to fit within the standard one- to three-day conference. So there’s a bit of room for improvement here, wouldn’t you agree? To be effective, leader development must be a process, not an event.