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5 Employee Appreciation Tips to Make Your Employees Feel Awesome

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

The general consensus among employees tends to be that their bosses don’t truly appreciate them, and you’ll have to overcome that general consensus to prove otherwise. Some leaders feel that intentionally challenging their employees will have a negative effect on their morale.

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Getting To Agreement

Strategy Driven

But in situations where we have great passion (or the moral high ground, as we would like to believe) we have difficulty being generous with those who disagree with us. Change needs consensus: win-win is key (we know there is no such thing as win/lose). We all theoretically recognize that everyone has the right to their own beliefs.

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A Leader's 5 Keys to No Nonsense Communication

Terry Starbucker

In a nutshell, they can be morale killers. Using consensus-building and partnership words. I hire mostly college students for my educational summer programs. The poster child word in this instance is “ but “ I wrote a whole post about the problems with that one. I’d like to offer a sixth one.

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We Don’t Know How to Hear Each Other: how biases distort our conversations

Strategy Driven

During this time of racial, class, political, gender, and education divide, of distrust and blame and victimhood, of killing and guns and violence, our inability to deeply hear each other is heartbreaking and costly. I’m not going into the moral issues of Right/Wrong here. In fact, we don’t even know how to hear each other.

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions.

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

This is especially true for companies where these programs are proving unpopular enough that significant savings would be required to justify the negative morale impact that these programs often involve. Given their losses, impact on morale, and possible hazards, it is time to move on from corporate wellness programs.

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Does Diversity Actually Increase Creativity?

Harvard Business Review

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea?