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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

Strategy 231
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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. ’ Deep work is the new superpower for focus and productivity developed by Professor Cal Newport. It’s a complete culture change. Get into ‘deep work.’

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation.

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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

Here’s an action verbs list for creative positions: CREATIVE PLANNING: Example: Developed a company culture initiative which raised employee presenteeism by 25% YoY. If you are a job seeker who wants to gain a creative leadership position, you want to pick action verbs that best describe your leadership and management skills.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

Understanding differences in order to anticipate and serve customer needs and develop the best talent from across the globe. Knowing how to do this well, building trust, engagement and psychological safety; measuring output not input or presenteeism, and building strong succession pipelines, requires management skill.

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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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How Counseling About Work Reduces Depression

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes this occurs when people call out sick; at other times, it’s due to what’s called presenteeism , defined as “the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of illness or other medical conditions, not fully functioning.”