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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Where are we?

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Employees Demand Employers Become More Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

This is a radical leap from 2016, when the same survey placed climate change in a lowly 13th spot, with just 2% of respondents believing it to be crucial. This often results in minimal changes being implemented, with what change that does occur not really impacting the core operations of the business. Making the change.

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Companies in US Are Giving a Day Off To Vote

HR Digest

It reported that roughly around 56% of the US voting-age population voted in the 2016 elections, which is a 20-year low turnout. Outdoor equipment retailer, Patagonia has announced that it will shut down its headquarters, offices, stores and distribution centers for Election Day, as it had previously done in 2016 and 2018.

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Employees Don’t Trust Anti-Retaliation Statutes

HR Digest

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report on whistleblower operations at the Department of Defense (DoD). Between 2016 and 2018, employees in all of the IGs have been able to access sensitive whistleblower information without a need to know. Or worse, will management retaliate against whistleblowers?

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How to Drama-Proof Your Workplace

Skip Prichard

In a 2016 poll 54% of respondents in 40 nations considered climate change is a very serious problem (Pew Research). 68% of Americans felt “anxious” or “extremely anxious” about keeping their families safe (The American Psychiatric Association, 2018). 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out (Cigna US Loneliness Index, 2018).

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen. In 2018, we counted more than 50,000 fast sessions across the company. Building an agile network. More than 600 were selected.