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Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue is a Lot More Complex Than You Think

Lead Change Blog

Combining my expertise in emotional and social intelligence with research on the specific problems of working from home during COVID, I’ve untangled these two concepts into a series of factors: Deprivation of our basic human need for meaning and purpose. Deprivation of our basic human need for connection.

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Different Thinking. Different Leadership

Lead Change Blog

If organizations want to thrive and create healthy and vibrant business cultures with high levels of engagement, then business leaders need to think differently. They need to start focusing on their people and their drivers of success which ultimately come in the first instance from people’s basic human needs being met.

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Developing Connections When People are Geographically Remote

Michael Lee Stallard

At the heart of building community is developing a bond of connection among the members of a group. They stop fully communicating and, as a result, decision-makers don’t get the information they need to make optimal decisions. Connection is grounded in human needs. The need for recognition is in our DNA.

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Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Lead Change Blog

Develop metrics and determine a baseline. Use this data to develop a baseline prior to doing the interventions below. Educate your employees about the deprivations of needs. Help your employees intentionally develop a sense of meaning in the virtual workplace. Cultivate a sense of meaning in your employees.

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The Four Pillars of Encouraging Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development To encourage is to be a leader who makes a difference by manifesting a positive belief in others. Humans need encouragement as much as plants need water. Leadership Development Collaborate Encourage encouragement Living up to potential recognition'

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Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

Leading Blog

You can use your understanding of human needs and the employee experience to lead a team of joyful, engaged, and high-performing people.” Hunkins covers these topics well and also the need to simplify so that you don’t get in your team’s way. It is an increasingly important skill to have in our digital age.

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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

Next Level Blog

Developed by the late William Bridges, the Four P’s is a tried-and-true framework for describing what matters and how your people make it happen. Develop – I often hear team members speaking appreciatively about how their leader “has their back.” Humans need the second. The first is about content and getting stuff done.

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