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5 tips on how team bonding can assist to build a solid company culture

Strategy Driven

Research also supports this as a LinkedIn survey shows that 65% of employees would work for a lesser pay and forgo a fancy job title rather than deal with a bad work environment. Team bonding activities are one way to bring employees together on a personal level. Team bonding is critical to building a highly collaborative culture.

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How Eating Together Can Form Bonds Within A Team

The Horizons Tracker

Eating together In The Social Brain , Robin Dunbar outlines how food has historically played a crucial role in this bonding process. “We can see the important role our kitchen space has played in helping team members bond and get to know each other since the return to office working post-pandemic,” Iwata says.

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Use This Survey to Conduct a Trust Tune-Up with Your Team

Leading with Trust

Literally overnight, teams were challenged with finding new ways to communicate and collaborate, and the bonds of trust those teams had established were put to the test. Remember the old management saying, “What gets measured gets managed?” If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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How Middle Managers Can Survive In Toxic Organizations

The Horizons Tracker

If you trust the various employee engagement surveys that are published each year, you could make a reasonable assumption that the majority of workplaces are in a pretty dysfunctional state. It’s also quite likely that you might pin the blame on middle managers, who often seem to be the scourge for all seasons.

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Why Managers Should Care about Employee Loyalty

Brigette Hyacinth

Often poor management lies at the heart of an employee’s departure. People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers. The manager is the company’s first point of contact with an employee, if that contact is bad, the relationship with the company will be bad and the employee won’t stay long. Check out my latest Bestselling Book.

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Comprehensive Guide on Maternity Leave Laws by State

HR Digest

Four states (California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Washington) have also implemented Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs that offer partial wage replacement for leave to bond with a new child or care for an ill family member. According to a survey, 82 percent of Americans believe employees should be able to take paid maternity leave.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Three Keys to Success

Women on Business

Guest post by business strategy and management education expert Trish Gorman (learn more about Trish at the end of this post). Most of us realize that high-performing teams are not really “managed.” Keeping three things in mind will help you move from serving as a glorified meeting manager to becoming a true team leader.

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