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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

In recent years, we’ve trained leaders in the fields of education, healthcare and the armed services on how to cultivate cultures of connection that reduce the risk of burnout and suicide ideation that members of their organizations were already experiencing pre-pandemic. Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic?

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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop. What’s Being Pondered.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business.

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Disciplined Thinking

Lead Change Blog

Most of us operate in some formal fashion with others in professional alliance. Whether we are part of an organized and recognized group, such as a real estate agency or function in looser fashion with a group of trusted others, we are social and communal beings. COMMUNITY DISCIPLINE. We did not build this ourselves ….

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Modeling Success: Three Ways to Communicate Effectively Without Words

RapidStart Leadership

Training Leaders. Last weekend we held our annual leadership training event for the Scout troop. This weekend they had to design and make a crane to pour water on something 15 feet away, erect the tallest flag pole they could to signal an airplane, improvise an overnight shelter, and fashion a bridge to cross a creek.

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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. It was one of the most smoothly professional presentations on ethics and values that I have ever seen. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. Enron is a great example.

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6 Principles to Consider Before Electronically Monitoring Remote Employees

Leading with Trust

Monitoring employees in some form or fashion has occurred for decades—think GPS trackers in trucks, timecards, swipe badges, CCTV, regulating web browsing—but some of today’s methods border on outright distrust of remote workers. Training opportunities? From the employee perspective, will it result in more manageable workloads?