Michael Lee Stallard

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Closing Your Company’s “Leadership Gap”

Michael Lee Stallard

Identifies Systemic Problems. Employee engagement surveys also help identify more systemic problems that require systemic interventions. Having identified that a broader system problem exists, interventions can be designed and applied to address such issues and improve employee engagement and performance.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

On top of changes to our physical health, we’ve had to navigate this period of uncertainty, stress, and loss without our emotional and social support systems functioning as they did pre-pandemic. It may help people to understand that their unease is triggered subconsciously by their brain and autonomic nervous system. What’s going on?

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4 Steps to Improve Quality and Safety

Michael Lee Stallard

When relationships in the workplace are not excellent, people don’t give their best efforts, they don’t align their behavior with the team’s goals, they don’t communicate or collaborate as well as they should, and they tend not to make the effort to be creative and innovate. These areas of sub-optimal performance sabotage quality and safety.

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Is the “Silent Killer” Sabotaging Your Performance?

Michael Lee Stallard

Loneliness makes us more vulnerable to chronic stress, which deprives parts of our brain, digestive system and immune system of the blood, glucose and oxygen needed to perform well and live a longer life span. The loneliness epidemic is significant because it acts as a silent killer in many ways.

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Leading with Character: Creativity

Michael Lee Stallard

Creativity is essential for innovation. Unfortunately, we don’t drift toward creativity and innovation. First, we must recognize the need to foster a team approach to creativity and innovation. Third, creativity and innovation increase when certain processes and practices are in place. Definition of Creativity.

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America’s Loneliness Epidemic: A Hidden Systemic Risk to Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

Its presence appears to improve the cardiovascular, endocrine and immune systems’ performance. In measured amounts, stress serves to ready the nervous system for the task at hand. With increasing levels of stress, the nervous system processes the stress as a threat. Here, odd as it sounds, stress can be a good thing.

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3 Practices to Protect Your People from Toxic Stress and Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

greater employee participation in efforts to innovate. By combining Value in the culture along with sound management practices, Dr. Pardes and his leadership team turned around the hospital system. This damage weakens the immune system and promotes rapid aging. New York–Presbyterian’s revenue rose from $1.7 billion in 2011.

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