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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. A strong Employee Assistance Program or EAP to help employees deal with coronavirus-related stress and mental health issues. We suggest: Establishing “adjusted” financial objectives that reduce the impact of the ongoing crisis.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. A strong Employee Assistance Program or EAP to help employees deal with coronavirus-related stress and mental health issues. We suggest: Establishing “adjusted” financial objectives that reduce the impact of the ongoing crisis.

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Three Ways Leaders Outsmart Themselves

CO2

They Are Responding to a Crisis. Under stressful conditions, our reptilian brains push us toward action (fight or flight), not deliberation and conversation. Under stressful conditions, our reptilian brains push us toward action (fight or flight), not deliberation and conversation. You are hard-wired to defend yourself.

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25 Ways to Prepare for Catalyst and Other Leadership Conferences

Modern Servant Leader

That way, if a crisis occurs, you can resolve it two days before, rather than being frantically resolving issues the night before you leave. This usually doubles as my airline carry-on and typically includes: a. These folks likely feel the pressure ( stress ) of the approaching event and could use some motivation. Simple snack.

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How to Become a Healing Leader

Skip Prichard

A number of other people were also homeless and dealing with all kinds of extraordinary stress. This same ideal was championed by the legendary founder of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, who proclaimed: The business of business is people—yesterday today and forever. Within a week after that, the floodgates opened up.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. Inpatient complications also fell from 11% to 7%.

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WestJet's CEO step down: The first sign of the leadership.

Roundtable Talk

Durfy’s replacement, Gregg Sartesky, is a 50 something exec who’s grown up in the high grind airline industry. The “personal issues&# reason is a much more slippery one and has me wondering if we are seeing what happens when a GenX mindset leader steps into an organization with a value-set grounded in boomer mentality.

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