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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. However, one of the key learnings for 2022 is when it comes to business management and your career, it’s not so much about how much time you put into it, but how you use that specified time.

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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism." Many successful companies have realized the positive return from personal and professional development programs. For more information, visit www.PaulJZak.com.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. He laughed at how easy and powerful it was – and how successful (and popular) it had made him. This isn’t new.

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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  I can think of few, if any, employee wellness issues that have such a direct and measurable impact on an organization's performance as the absenteeism (and presenteeism) resulting from influenza. License. . 

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

The RAND study summarizes it this way: “Consistent with prior research, we find that lifestyle management interventions as part of workplace wellness programs can reduce risk factors, such as smoking, and increase healthy behaviors, such as exercise. How could these initiatives be deemed “largely unrelated” to the company’s success?

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

I found nine universal warning signs of change-in-the-wrong direction in research for my book Confidence , which compared downward spirals with the momentum of success. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. The good news is that they are all reversible.