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Help Your Team Shift from Busy to Productive

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What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? It’s the actual work we do.

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Transforming Tension: How to Embrace the Benefits of Workplace Conflict

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But there’s another kind of workplace conflict that’s not only vital for a vibrant culture, but this kind of productive workplace conflict is also the fuel for innovation, quality of life, and the better workplace today’s teams crave. Here are just a few benefits of productive workplace conflict: 1. What made it productive?

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Courageous Questions: How to Make It Easier to Get Better Insights

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(What makes a courageous question useful and how to craft your own). Sample Courageous Questions (Specific courageous questions you can ask your team), How to “Respond With Regard” to what you’ve heard. The vendor had promised the new system would be seven times faster—not slower. Laura’s jaw dropped.

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How to boost productivity? Incentivise human capital investment

Chartered Management Institute

Article: How to boost productivity? Management and UK 2030 Check out the full report here As well as safeguarding and enhancing policy areas that currently are working to support upskilling – such as management apprenticeships – CMI has called on the government to explore wider changes to the tax system to support investment in skills.

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

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The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. Empathy can’t be outsourced to computers.

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Star Systems Hurt Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

The prevalence and extreme nature of star systems today contribute to widespread employee disconnection and disengagement. Star systems affect the economic, political, and social aspects of organizations. This system makes most employees feel like second-class citizens. How Inspiring Identity Fuels Team Performance.

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How to Be a Human-Centered Leader when You’re Stressed, Anxious, or Freaked-Out

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Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team. It fires up the response systems before we know it. Now that you’ve acknowledged how you’re feeling and are connected back to your purpose, you’re likely feeling more grounded. It Happens. What do you feel?

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