Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

It is a combination not only of policy and culture, but also leadership practice. Understanding differences in order to anticipate and serve customer needs and develop the best talent from across the globe. It required multi-cultural skills and what I called ‘gender bilingualism.’

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Physical, behavioral and mental health issues such as obesity, hypertension, smoking, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, and alcohol dependence can create costs for employers through higher medical claims, reduced employee productivity and performance, absenteeism, presenteeism, and short-term disability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Policies and processes are perceived to be ingrained and inevitable, shutting off new ideas. Initiative decreases. Discredited and demoralized, people become paralyzed by anxiety. competitiveness.

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