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What is drama costing your organization?

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Listen in as Next Element Co-Founder and CEO, Nate Regier discusses how drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. The post What is drama costing your organization? How conflict can be a creative force.

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Conflict Without Casualties

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When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves or each other to feel justified about their negative behavior. The cost is staggering. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy.

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Chasing Different

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Different costs. We lose the energy it takes to change, and we also lose the benefit of the Status Quo. We also pay the opportunity cost, the other things we could have done with the energy, time and money we spend on Different. But after we embark on our pursuit of Different, we start to experience the cost.

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7 Strategies To Build Collaborative Relationships

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Building effective collaborative relationships is a key element in helping any business scale to the next level as it enables you to leverage your time, energy, money, and resources and if done well can bring unexpected benefits. New ideas flow which can result in projects way bigger than what you initially envisaged.

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Four Kinds of Feedback in an Excellent Organization

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It means providing high quality products and services at a reasonable cost (to the organization, the employee, the environment, and society). Two of the most important aspects in the organizational equation are the cost and the productivity of your personnel. As an organization, you want everyone to perform and produce optimally.

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The Key to Sustainable Performance

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Engaged coworkers do what they’re good at, do it well, and do it because it gives them energy rather than costs energy. The first two points are best covered by ensuring the why of the organization (or its mission) is clear, and designing the selection process for new coworkers to hire the right people.

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When the trust is gone, is your business done?

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However, suppressing your feelings also leads to greater tension in the longer term, as my two colleagues found to their cost. . In that way, we do not build on the historical blame burden but release people’s energy, focus, and inclination to achieve on a bigger scale. We successfully started that part of the journey today. .

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