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How to Craft Meaningful Thank-You Messages to Celebrate Your Coworkers

Crafting thank-you messages for coworkers is more than a polite gesture; it’s a way to nurture a positive working environment. These messages serve a dual purpose: to show appreciation for a job well done and to motivate continued excellence. When you send a thank you message to colleagues for support or to recognize their hard …

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Understanding The Costs Of And Solutions For Quiet Quitting

Quiet quitting is gaining attention lately as a workplace strategy for some employees and a challenge for some organizations. Quiet quitting is demonstrated by employees who show up to work with the purpose of doing no more than what’s required to stay employed. For some people, it’s a strategy for creating work-life balance and avoiding …

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Are You Optimizing Virtual Training To Shape Your Culture?

Two years into the pandemic, most organizations have pivoted to provide virtual training due to imposed work-from-home orders and the resulting general shift to remote work. While these organizations have done a good job within the constraints, many have fallen into a sub-optimal new normal as their emergency pivot has become ingrained and habitual without …

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Corporate Culture: The Guide for Thought Leaders

In their ongoing mission, culture and strategy are among the primary tools at top leaders’ disposal to maintain organizational practicality and effectiveness. Strategies use a formal logic for the business’s objectives and align individuals around them. Culture reveals objectives through beliefs to guide activity through shared presumptions and group standards. Related: What Company Culture Is …

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Why Representation Is More Powerful Than Inclusion Alone

Employee inclusion at all levels is a critical factor for organizational success. Because of the increased speed and urgency with which organizations are forced to adapt to a continually changing business environment, respond to new customer demands and effectively compete with the competition, employee inclusion is more important now than it’s ever been. Old ways …

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20 Employee Engagement Ideas Proven to Work

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and the era of remote work, employee engagement was always a critical element of consideration for businesses. Now that companies have to manage employees operating in remote, in-person, and hybrid positions, one could argue that employee engagement is even more critical than before. But how are businesses supposed to …

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Internal Recruitment: The Benefits, Costs, and Best Practices

Internal recruitment is when a business sources talent from their current team members for a job opening.  It’s no secret that business evolves. In the last two years, we have seen drastic changes in how organizations finalize transactions, communicate with customers, and even hire for open positions. Hiring for a new position takes time and …

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Five Meaningful Ways To Support Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Business

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a stated value for many companies, but making meaningful changes to support DEI often proves more difficult than simply claiming it as important. Below are five meaningful ways to support DEI in any organization. 1. Educate yourself and take personal inventory. Power dynamics in organizations most often mimic power …

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Emotions At Work: Secret Uses for Positive Culture

Your emotions are important – everywhere. Although you don’t usually associate emotion with the workplace, the two are inextricably connected. So much of your life is invested in your job that it makes sense that it’s also where you experience a broad spectrum of feelings – joy, satisfaction, anger, resentment, and stress, to name just …

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The Dangers of Adrenaline Addiction In The Workplace

What is Adrenaline Addiction? Adrenaline is a central component of an animal’s flight or fight response that kicks in when danger is sensed. Adrenaline causes one’s heart rate and blood pressure to increase, increased sweating, and increased blood in the organs and muscles. Despite this being part of a core evolutionary strategy for survival and …

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Are Silos Causing Breakdowns in Your Organization?

By Mark Samuel – Did you know that departmental silos are the biggest obstacle tohigh performance, increased profitability, value-driven culture, andoverall success? In my consulting practice, I’ve seen that bringing functional leaders together to speak with one voice is one of the most profound changes an organization can make. Not only does this increase positivity within the culture of the organization, but it …

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10 Best Tips for Building Trust in the Workplace

By Mark Samuel – When trust in the workplace breaks down between individuals or teams, relationships suffer — poor communication, hiding, defensive posturing, blame and other forms of aggressive and passive-aggressive behaviors ensue. The assumption is that the basis of that mistrust is in those relationship challenges. However, those are only the symptoms of mistrust, …

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Solidifying Your Culture During and After Re-Entry

By Mark Samuel –  This is part 4 in a 4-part series to help organizations navigate re-entry after the initial impact of COVID-19.  If you’re just joining the conversation, don’t miss the valuable information shared in Part 1: Learning from the Virtual Environment and the Effects of COVID-19, Part 2: Creating an Outcome-Driven Plan for …

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Creating an Outcome-Driven Plan for Initial Re-Entry

By Mark Samuel –  This is part 2 in a 4-part series to help organizations navigate re-entry after the initial impact of COVID-19.  If you’re just joining the conversation, don’t miss the valuable information shared in Part 1: Learning From The Virtual Environment And The Effects COVID-19.  Part 2: Creating an Outcome-Driven Plan for Initial …

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The New Everyday Hero

By Mark Samuel –  Business in the coronavirus environment continues with people working from home, being laid-off or furloughed, or finding creative ways of  collaborating with others while keeping social distance and clean surfaces – especially our hands! While we are receiving several emails per day with advice on how to deal with the Pandemic, …

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