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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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Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

Leading Blog

It’s called projection bias when we assume others know what we are thinking. Those you are communicating with need context. You can use your understanding of human needs and the employee experience to lead a team of joyful, engaged, and high-performing people.” There are three major obstacles to communication.

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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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Few Countries Manage To Be Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Yet because human activities tend to cause unintended side effects like global warming or ozone depletion,” the researchers explain. “It’s imperative that experts look for ways to develop society in an ecologically sustainable manner.

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This is Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

Lead from Within

They may micromanage, bully employees, avoid conflict, duck decisions, steal credit, shift blame, hoard information, fail to listen, set a poor example, goof off, or fail to invest in developing their team. The best companies create multiple opportunities for people to use and develop their talents. They feel unappreciated.

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7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

If you are not able to get them a role that is a good fit, consider responsibilities or projects you can assign them that fit well with their wiring. Develop the Habit of Emphasizing Positives – The psychologist Barbara Frederickson found that individuals in the workplace were healthier at higher ratios of positive to negative emotions.

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It’s called human resources for a reason

ReImagine Work

Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings. These realizations settled in, and having recently survived my first downsizing in IT, I chose to pursue a career in human resources. I didn’t like creating more work for them that was not related to developing the next new thing.