The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

How would people on your team or organization answer these questions? ” Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, led a team of researchers to correlate the answers to the performance of over 1,600 publicly listed U.S. Well-being is strongly linked to absenteeism.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

Have you ever heard of an “absentee leader” or manager? If you convey to your team that you take the time to seek them out and are there for them, they will never have the “Yeah the boss was here but we never saw her/him” resignation. Use technology. If you need to do so, meet with them as a group.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A 2019 Harvard University study revealed that organizations with a more employee-centric approach to office space see a reduction in absenteeism and staff turnover, and experience as much as a 16 percent rise in productivity. This may mean bringing technological infrastructure up to speed and fit for purpose.

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Real Estate Absenteeism Construction Open-book 65

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 7, 2013

A 2012 survey by human resource firm LRN Corporation found that bosses who genuinely trusted their workers and gave them more autonomy saw these benefits: less misconduct and absenteeism, as well as greater engagement, innovation, customer service and financial growth. Poll the ranks. Plus, upper management can benefit from mentoring.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Marcella summarizes: “ Appreciative attention for people helped this client lower their absenteeism. What can companies to to retain talented, engaged team members?” Art recaps, “ It’s a great vote of confidence when your boss picks you to lead the turnaround of a struggling team or function.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Higher levels of stress and stress related illnesses and absenteeism. The program team was highly dysfunctional and everyone had his or her own ideas about the source of the problems – the technical challenges, the difficult customer, the bureaucracy of the large company, procurement issues. Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

 This podcast will help you to better understand how these changes in the CDC's immunization recommendations can reduce the prevalence of flu related absences and also offers some great advice for steps your organization can take to increase the percentage of employee team members who are vaccinated. 

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. As a result, his team had been winnowed away to a fraction of the size it used to be. His own reputation bled over onto the members of his team. In fact, his boss raved about him.

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Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 17

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Busy managers, who are already overwhelmed with previous change initiatives, tend to panic and jump in too fast with new systems; they act without proper preparation and neglect to get input from their team which leads to a very bumpy ride. They can be deleted, sent on with a terse message, or ignored.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The key to identifying and addressing at-risk employees before a breach or incident occurs is to focus as much on understanding and anticipating human behavior as on shoring up technological defenses. Treating insiders as a technology problem ignores the human aspects of motivation and behavior.”

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Forrester Shaw Absenteeism Analysis 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

By leveraging technology and analytics tools, HR professionals can gain real-time visibility into HR metrics, identify areas for improvement, and optimize HR processes. By analyzing absence rates, organizations can identify patterns and trends in employee absenteeism and implement strategies to address potential issues.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Having followed this phenomenon since 2005, the report found that February 4, would be the largest-ever anticipated day of Super Bowl-related absenteeism. The team used the most recent US workforce data to extrapolate the population estimates to find that some 17.2 How can employers approach the costly affair of absenteeism?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

For many years, teams at Virgin Atlantic have been testing ways to motivate efficient decision-making in the cockpit. For comparison, the lowest-cost technology aimed at reducing carbon emissions—efficient residential lighting—saves the economy approximately $180 per metric ton of CO 2 abatement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

There’s another that says all of us, including senior managers, are basically flotsam buffeted about by the eddies of economic incentive, corporate culture, and technologies that keep the office just a tap away. Predictable, required time off (like nights and weekends) actually made teams of consultants more productive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Morgan Chase, and in my current work as co-founder of the learning solutions company Wisdom Labs, I’ve seen over and over again that the most resilient individuals and teams aren’t the ones that don’t fail, but rather the ones that fail, learn and thrive because of it. The result is at times a frenetic way of working.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure? While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Emotion Inspires Ongoing Development and Builds Community.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. We’ll teach you our technology. We got to get him off the team” and he ends up being the poster child for servant leadership six months later. The kids are acting out”, right?! We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Really messed-up experiencing strikes, union drives, turnover absenteeism, low commitment, low morale. We’ll teach you our technology. We got to get him off the team” and he ends up being the poster child for servant leadership six months later. The kids are acting out”, right?! We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

People should be encouraged to work together as a team. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. Institute extensive on-the-job training. Improve supervision.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

As a result, one in four American families handles child care by tag teaming (where mom works one shift, dad works a different shift, and each cares for the children while the other is at work). Sorely needed is a more scientific scheduling process that uses "cloud" technology, which now offers on-line scheduling for as little as $1.25

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We need new models of pediatric primary care with the following features: Comprehensive and team-based. To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents.

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