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Ethical Business Practices That Benefit You

Strategy Driven

Ethical business practices can be defined as a set of principles and behaviors that influence how a company conducts itself in relation to daily operations, interactions with others, and decision-making policies. The importance of ethical practices in business cannot be overstated.

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Why Ignoring Your Employees Could Be Your Company’s Biggest Mistake!

Lead from Within

When you acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of your team members, you create a positive and motivated work environment. By actively listening and responding, you demonstrate that their voices matter, strengthening the bond between you and your team. Show your dedication to the company’s values and work ethic.

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How to Be Focused and Productive in a Crisis

Lead from Within

Some leaders think they’re protecting people by not acknowledging difficult truths or uncertainty, but that’s not an effective—or ethical—approach. At the same time, work to help your team stay inspired, connected and motivated. Genuine listening forms a bond of trust that motivates people and helps in resolving their concerns.

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Honoring those who question

Persuasive Powerhouse

Leaders who question: Deepen self-awareness: Making the effort ask themselves questions about their motivations, thoughts, drivers, and values helps questioning leaders to deepen their self-knowledge. When someone is asked a question, it means that the asker is confident that they have an answer, creating a bond.

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Why you need to learn people

Persuasive Powerhouse

That learning, when used carefully and ethically, will help you to understand how others can be persuaded about your ideas. When you learn people before that happens, you discover things you have in common that create bonds that allow you to get through the toughest conflicts and misunderstandings. Care about them.

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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

Connection is defined as a bond that exists among a group of people based on shared identity, empathy and understanding that moves self–centered individuals toward group-centered membership. Here’s an example of a servant leader that brings the force of connection to life. why is everyone smiling?

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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.&# why is everyone smiling?