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

A lack of leadership development also undermines a key aspect of culture that drives high-performance: trust. My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism."

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a trailblazer in the realm of gender balance and inclusive leadership, shares profound insights in an exclusive interview with The HR Digest. The HR Digest: As a pioneer in gender balance advocacy, what are some of the most significant breakthroughs you’ve witnessed in achieving gender parity in leadership roles?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Although work-life balance policies are meant to acknowledge the realities faced by dual earner families, existing workplace norms often stigmatize the use of such policies. There is also low utilization of such policies despite the widespread demand for such flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

“Leadership” in the real sense of the word is left to chance — happening to have the right people in place at the right time, ideally with the social links to ensure sensible proposals for decision making. How likely is change?

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Seeing how this role is going to be a big part of work-life, employers need to reconsider their human resource policies to work in this burgeoning need. Here are some ways that the HR staff and managers can oversee programs and policies that can benefit the workers who are caregivers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

For all of this to work, employees must trust the program and the employer’s motives, which requires visible CEO leadership. And thinly veiled penalties hurt morale when viewed as a stealth form of shifting more costs onto employees and do not contribute to a supportive workplace environment, much less long-term wellness.

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