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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 is an increasingly important skill to have in our digital age. You can use your understanding of human needs and the employee experience to lead a team of joyful, engaged, and high-performing people.” Collaboration takes your effectiveness to a whole new level.

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How Effective is Your Communication?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from David Hiatt : Lack of effective communication skills has done more to keep good people from being promoted into leadership roles than any other skill deficiency. They have this great knowledge and skill set for the job requirements but communicating in a manner to get positive outcomes from others was sorely lacking.

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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

In the new edition of their book titled “ Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0 ”, Dr. Jean Greaves and Evan Watkins have a rich conversation on team EQ offering stories, practices, and strategies for lifting individual emotional intelligence skills to the group level.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

As the current pandemic abates and the world opens up again, educating employees so they understand their human need for connection and what they might experience upon re-entry into a more complex social environment is a proactive step leaders can take. It turns out that our social skills are like muscles , according to research.

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Hope Employees Will Return to the Office? Start Here.

Michael Lee Stallard

As I explained in Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work , a culture of connection meets the seven universal human needs at work for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning and progress.

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Antidote for Widespread Employee Discontent

Michael Lee Stallard

Without going too far into the psychology of connection, let me just summarize by saying simply that we are humans, not machines. To the extent that these human needs of respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning are met, we feel connected to the group. We have emotions. We have hopes and dreams.