Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leaders know that culture is often the key to their organization’s success whether they’re trying to enhance employee satisfaction, boost productivity, or launch a new initiative. And what is your view regarding the importance of organizational culture? Why does it create such confusion among many leaders?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2015

The startling truth is that 70% of employees are disengaged at work–checked out. The answer to winning back disengaged employees (and keeping the engaged employees, well, engaged) isn’t pay, perks or promotions. How, then, do leaders create meaning at work for others (and themselves)?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. How do you avoid this fate? If people still need to come to you for instructions on how to do something, that’s a sign that you need a clearly stated process so that anyone designated to handle a task can handle that task. Make the turn. It’ll be okay. You like the details.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That’s what research from Great Place to Work found in a study of 792 companies totaling about 500,000 employees. In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

found the pandemic has caused half of employees surveyed to consider leaving their current job. We want to be energized. ” Depending on how real or alive these passionate purposes are, they can rally and arouse people to work for, buy from, invest in, or partner with these companies. .”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2015

Guest post from Michael Lee Stallard: Company culture is a hot topic among today’s leaders, and rightfully so. Because it influences how colleagues relate, or fail to relate, to each other, culture affects the effectiveness of teams and business units, ultimately influencing the bottom line.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2012

Managing yourself means learning how to show up to work on time and dressed appropriately, get along with your co-workers, manage your time and priorities, keep your boss happy, and follow basic workplace adequate, i.e., no microwaving fish in the break room. It requires the ability to handle ambiguity, paradox, and change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. I’m delighted to have so many thought leaders weighing in on the seven roles I see as most critical to building results that last. Thought Leaders Share About 7 Roles That Lead to Lasting Results. Charles Saliba of HR Works tells us that leaders are messengers.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

“How many people work in your organization?” ” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. .” ” ‘How long have you worked here?” That culture ripples out from the leaders.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Two experts on business transformations, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas, have written Unfear: Transform your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Wellbeing. It shows you how to reframe your relationship with fear and anxiety to unlock extraordinary performance and personal wellbeing for you, your team, and your organization.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. If leaders’ actions are toxic, you’re going to have a toxic culture. Culture Spark.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2014

Buying a car, choosing a mate, selecting a new home, following a career path, perceiving how the world works is all decided emotionally. Emotion is always operating below the surface and a person doesn''t recognize how important his or her feelings are at the time of the decision. Please recognize that values change over time.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Becoming A Healthy Leader There are plenty of ways to become a healthy leader. I’ve shared various ways you can become a healthy leader over the last couple of weeks. Today, I wanted to bring new voices to the civanonversation on what a healthy leader looks like. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe 12 Ways to Celebrate Progress by Kevin Eikenberry on October 4, 2010 in Leadership , Learning Celebration is often a challenging topic for leaders. When you recognize progress it helps renew focus while re-energizing the team.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Use discernment: Leaders can stifle curiosity by expressing their own opinions about new ideas too soon. Eventually employees will lose the will to be creative.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2014

How well those relationships work has a lot to do with how much TRUST is at the center of them. Each leader plays a critical role within her and his ecosystem in what I call your ‘responsibility pond.’ Bad and ineffective leaders can create a lot of damage. Model how you would like others to behave.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

If we've spent our work life as an employee, we tend to think as an employee. For example, many new entrepreneurs talk-the-talk of the entrepreneur — but their thinking is still grounded in their life as an employee. Changing corporate cultural memes happens one leader at a time. Author Mary C. Taylor Caldwell.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How much energy do you have at work? We were motivated to do this research because energy is a vital personal and organizational resource, but research on the sources of energy have neglected a source that everyone experiences in everyday life — our relationships with others. Marion Barraud for HBR. What do they do?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 15, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Monday, March 15, 2010 Involve Your Employees Youll be a more effective leader if you work hard to involve your employees. Share information about customer satisfaction with employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

We’ve heard it so many times that when we started tracking why employees leave Facebook, all bets were on managers. If you want to keep your people — especially your stars — it’s time to pay more attention to how you design their work. MirageC/Getty Images. And who’s responsible for what that job is like?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. How do you energize and galvanize them around a new course? How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

“How can we have the highest profitability in five years and still have gaps in employee engagement?” This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

“How can we have the highest profitability in five years and still have gaps in employee engagement?” This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. In the book, The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value , Richard Hunter and I coined the phrase CIO-Plus. We''ve all seen it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer , fewer than 20% of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And even fewer managers are open to or equipped to handle employees with alternative schedules. Even those bosses who trust their employees worry about appearing to favor certain people or allowing productivity to decline. If your company doesn't have a formal policy, you'll need to create a proposal yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

To heal, she refocused on the parts of her self—a mother, a friend, a sister, and athlete—that had been neglected because of her tunnel vision. Change how you think about yourself. How do you currently think about who you are and the things you are doing? It is running a marathon. She had stopped enjoying her life.

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