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Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Lead Change Blog

Educate your employees about the deprivations of needs. There are numerous tips and tricks for effective virtual communication, but the vast majority of organizations fail to provide professional development in this area. Cultivate a sense of meaning in your employees.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. The human brain is a miracle of survival and, from a psychological and evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. We have a human need for steadiness and predictability. But are we leading? Truly leading people? We like consistency.

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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

Next Level Blog

I offer some of my favorite coaching questions and tips in this post on how to coach the person and not the problem. Humans need the second. To be meaningful, connection needs to be not just a means to an end, but an end in itself. The first is about content and getting stuff done. Work requires the first.

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Listening as a Tool to De-escalate Conflicts

The Recovering Engineer

Two completely different situations with completely different measures of success, and one primary human need cited as the driving force for satisfaction with the outcome: the need to be heard and understood. The reason that listening works so well is that it meets a human need. No, it won’t.

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7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

This meets the human need for autonomy and allows people to experience personal growth. Favor guidelines rather than rules and controls, and let people know that you are available if they have questions or would like you to be a sounding board. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill understood this.

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Frontline Festival: February 2016

Let's Grow Leaders

Chantal Bechervaise of Take It Personel-ly reminds us that when there’s a lack of morale, everyone becomes less productive and are not as good at communicating with each other as they need to be. This post provides tips to help improve morale and relationships in the workplace. Here are five tips that will help.

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The Mind Of The Leader

Eric Jacobson

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader.