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How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden

Let's Grow Leaders

Here’s how it works: A Place for Every Idea : In this garden, no idea is too small or too wild. Accessible and Organized : Using project management software, this garden is not a wild thicket but an organized oasis. Cultivating creative team collaboration in an idea garden helps you manage an abundance of ideas.

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Office Christmas Party Ideas Your Employees Will Be Talking About for Weeks

HR Digest

Maybe yours won’t be as wild as the 2016 Hollywood movie of the same name but, if you’re planning to make your office Christmas party a success, here are some tips to help you put together the annual event. Here are some of the employee engagement activities that can make a difference and strengthen the bond between the workers.

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Building Teamwork: 6 Proven Strategies

Chart Your Course

That is not to say that the management is going to implement every suggestion they hear, but there needs to be an acknowledgement of the idea if you want them to keep coming. Research has shown that almost anything that management does for employees will benefit their morale and increase job satisfaction. Boost Morale With Activities.

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The Case for Trash-Talking at Work, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Our research has studied what happens when individuals, managers, and CEOs mock their competitors and how it can influence motivation and performance. As a manager, does this mean you should trash-talk your employees to make them more productive? Trash-talking is pervasive in organizations. No, don’t do it.

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The Wisdom of the Currency Crowd

Harvard Business Review

What kinds of policies prompt professional investors to buy bonds and make deposits in a particular currency? True, the currency markets are pretty volatile and there's a lot of chatter, speculation, and rumor that drive some pretty wild swings from time to time. And what kinds of policies make them rush for the door?

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Having Work Friends Can Be Tricky, but It’s Worth It

Harvard Business Review

Many companies have tried to support office bonds through perks like ping-pong tables, free lunches, or corporate retreats, but the reality is that most of us don’t have close friends at work. Managers and leaders need to continue being able to assign tasks and role hierarchy does need to be respected.

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The Cost of Closeted Employees

Harvard Business Review

Forced to lie about their private lives, they are excluded from the collegiate banter about weekend outings and personal interests that forges bonds in the workplace. While the numbers of out and closeted LGBTs in middle management are roughly the same — 51% out, 49% not — their ongoing career paths diverge wildly.

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