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Is Your Workplace Plagued by Disrespect? Take This Step to Disarm It

Leading Blog

Is your workplace a hotbed of disrespect—and are productivity and collaboration tanking because of it? Some organizations respond with well-meaning exhortations to “just get along,” or they encourage private chats with human resources or senior management. Be warned: This can be a challenging process.

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Full-Spectrum Thinking

Leading Blog

Bob Johansen describes full-spectrum thinking as “the ability to seek patterns and clarity across gradients of possibility—outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories—while resisting false certainty.”. Think beyond products. The future will be a global scramble that will be very difficult to categorize.

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How to Host a Productive Generational Conversation

Nathan Magnuson

Here are some ways to make the conversation a productive one. Believe it or not, many organizations resist holding generational training discussions in the first place. Invest the time and planning now to hold productive, meaningful and engaging generational discussions. Have the Conversation. HR fears someone will be offended.

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Help I Have a REALLY LAZY Coworker! How Do I Stay Motivated?

Let's Grow Leaders

” Start With You: What to Do When Your Coworker is Lazy Having spent many years in human resources, then leading large teams, and now working with leaders around the world, let me start here. Workplace gossip will tank productivity and then your manager has to deal with the lazy coworker AND the distraction it’s causing.

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Inviting New Voices to the Table: HR as a Strategic Partner

HR Digest

Image credit – Freepik Benefits of Having HR as a Strategic Partner HR as a strategic partner can mean many different things for an organization according to the area it invests the resources in. Automation is the future of every industry and human resources is no different.

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Overcoming Feedback Apprehension: Dos and Don’ts of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Leading Blog

It should not be at all; advice like this should bring about thoughtful and productive dialogue. Before you go into these conversations, ask yourself what you want the other person to walk away with and then think about them and what approach for them individually will bring about the most productive, healthy conversation.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. According to Bob Olodort, the product designer of the recently launched Ditto notification wearable device, Samsung is snagged in the complexity web.