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8 Ways To Design a High-Trust Culture

Leading Blog

Paul Zak, the author of The Trust Factor , has shown that “when someone is tangibly trusted by a stranger, the brain synthesizes the signaling chemical oxytocin” and “ the more trust one is shown, the more the brain produces oxytocin.” High levels of stress and testosterone inhibit the release of oxytocin. T RUST BEGETS TRUST.

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Communicate Effectively to Influence and Lead

CoachStation

Unfortunately, many managers do not develop this skill to the level required. Our goal is to develop the skill and capability to flex to level 3 and 4, where relevant. The goal is to be heard and understood. The goal is to develop your communication skills to at least Level 3. Purpose influences action and improvement.

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4 Ways To Reduce Workplace Negativity By Increasing Consistency

Tanveer Naseer

In other words the business is growing and changing and there is a need for increased structure to support and manage the change. The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt.

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Workplace Depression: This is How to Tell Your Employees Are Depressed

Strategy Driven

It is always important to recognize employee strengths and be sure to help your employees grow and learn without having goals that are overly strenuous. The goal is to create a productive yet supportive workplace that recognizes hardworking staff. What Happens When Depression Goes Unnoticed? You are their leader in the workplace.

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Diagnosis Cancer - The Opportunity to Reinvent Life and Work

Management Craft

I can announce that with the kind partnership of my client Agile Avant , we have rescheduled two two-day training sessions I was leading in Kuala Lumpur as follows: Talent Management Review: WAS July 18-19, NOW Sept 19-20. My goal is to quickly increase the later in place of the former.

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Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It

Harvard Business Review

With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as possible. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle. Stress has many wonderful attributes.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

Testosterone, the hormone that helps regulate dominance, confidence, aggression concentration, mood and energy plays a role here as does cortisol, the hormone released in response to stress. This suggests that endocrinal functions that regulate the autonomic central system are actually regulated by the conscious control of stress levels.