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Subtle Racial Slurs Cause Burnout Among Black Employees

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Rice University highlights how even subtle racial slights can result in declines in job dissatisfaction and even burnout. The third form of workplace microaggression involves interactional injustices, whereby Black employees are subjected to negative interpersonal treatment.

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Why People Don’t Always Speak Up At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Obviously, this represents a conundrum for managers as employees might feel comfortable speaking up on one topic but not another. Silence enacts a clear toll on us that can contribute towards burnout as keeping our concerns to ourself harms our wellbeing. Safe place. Suppressing issues can be painful. People get exhausted.

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Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle?

Roundtable Talk

One of the highlights came from keynote speaker, Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson, who spoke to us on the subject of organizations being stuck , and how they can get un-stuck. Share this: This entry was posted in Engagement , Leadership , results , Stress and tagged burnout , change , managing expectations , priorities.

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

This phenomenon of “too much to learn” is not only feeding the perception of critical skills shortages in many sectors, but it can also accelerate burnout. The failure to address this phenomenon will have costly impacts: increased risk of burnout, reduced productivity, and time wasted on the wrong tasks.

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

Michael Lee Stallard

In answering this question one ought to address the topic of stress. In a review of 83 studies on addiction with at least 500 subjects, Sussman et al. The Role of Chronic Stress. Why is social disconnection problematic in the workplace? In measured amounts, stress serves to ready the nervous system for the task at hand. Conclusion.

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Simply Start Listening: Tips To Fix Communication in the Workplace

HR Digest

We’re about to dive into a topic a little deeper, starting with the types of communication in the workplace. Being nervous or not knowing our material can often cause us to ramble from topic to topic. In written communication, it becomes even easier to state the subject and curate your communication in accordance with it.

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