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Strategies to Create a Positive Working Environment

HR Digest

Offering flexible seating options and designated collaboration spaces to encourage teamwork and creativity. Remote Workplaces For employees who work from home, organizations can support their well-being by providing a stipend for home office equipment and resources on ergonomic safety.

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Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

Harvard Business Review

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). For example, if I saw someone exemplifying the value of “teamwork,” what would she be doing? What would she not be doing?

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Managers Aren’t Doing Enough to Train Employees for the Future

Harvard Business Review

They remind us that we’ve been here before and that, rather than simply increasing efficiency and cutting costs, emerging technologies can be used to augment our work and raise the quality of life for the population as a whole. Others, like O’Reilly Media’s Tim O’Reilly, aren’t so pessimistic.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. Getting better at getting better is a vital organizing principle for learning organizations. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. Lead by Example.