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4 Ways To Reduce Workplace Negativity By Increasing Consistency

Tanveer Naseer

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. Yet another reason for negativity is due to our natural and biological response to change.

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

Strategy Driven

Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. 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. 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 regret that the timing of this diagnosis and operation is bad for several of my clients. In particular, he told me not to go overseas too soon after the operation in case of any complications. This cancer does not respond to chemo or radiation, just surgery, and this makes the initial operation very important.

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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

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. This suggests that endocrinal functions that regulate the autonomic central system are actually regulated by the conscious control of stress levels.

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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved

Harvard Business Review

Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications (and a member of the boards of P&G and Xerox) stresses that “it’s not just about the meetings. Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Health assessments typically involve asking employees questions about modifiable risks, such as smoking behavior, physical inactivity, poor diet, and high stress levels. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Administering health risk assessments only. This, of course, takes time and support.