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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

Leading Blog

Businesses striving to adapt and thrive amidst these changes must find innovative solutions to the matter of maintaining a robust corporate culture. Hold regularly scheduled video conferences, company-wide updates, and virtual town halls to help bridge the physical gap.

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Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Lead Change Blog

We want to connect with each other, but our emotions just don’t process little squares on a screen in a video conference as truly connecting, compared to in-person meetings. To cultivate human connection and a sense of trust, you need to replace bonding activities from office culture with innovative virtual bonding activities.

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The Conference Board: Employee Engagement = Connections

Michael Lee Stallard

In our book Fired Up or Burned Out and in The Connection Culture Manifesto , we identify and describe the “force of connection&# as “a bond based on shared identity, empathy and understanding that moves self-centered individuals toward group-centered membership.&# I like this definition. why is everyone smiling?

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Creating a Winning Corporate Culture Through People Power

Great Leadership By Dan

It requires having a deep understanding of human connections, of bonds, and of ways to break down barriers. Find ways to divert and donate old office furniture, add dimmable occupancy sensors in conference rooms, and use programmable controls for lights and thermostats.

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Here’s Why You Should Hire a Humorous Speaker for Your Next Event

Chart Your Course

It relieves stress, fosters emotional bonding, and encourages creativity. One way to encourage humor and fun in your workplace is to hire humorous motivational speakers for your corporate events and conferences. Encourage creativity and innovation. How many boring meetings have you attended? Reduce absenteeism.

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5 Ways to Strengthen Trust With Weak Ties

Let's Grow Leaders

Perhaps someday we will upgrade our relationship to “weak ties,” but yesterday we were just 2/850 at the Great Ideas Conference chatting through our freebie Hyatt sunglasses over lunchtime brisket and gluten-free potato salad. Showing up with real expertise will attract other curious and innovative souls. We depend on that.

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The Pros And Cons Of Working Remotely

The Horizons Tracker

The use of online conferences and seminars also improved people’s professional development as it made access to such events easier, especially if they would otherwise be held overseas. The respondents also enjoyed the use of online platforms for meetings and reported increased team bonding as a result.

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