Vantage Circle

AUGUST 21, 2020

As HR experts, you strive tirelessly to build a work atmosphere and an organizational culture that increases profitability, improve loyalty, and encourages employee happiness. Whether you like it or not, you'll eventually have to interact with employees who bring their bitterness, personal troubles, and other problems to work every day.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 21, 2022

Having something in common with another person instantly builds a connection that makes us human; we have big brains because humans are social creatures designed to build and maintain many relationships so we can work together. However, they're missing out; the truth is, rapport is the foundation of great working relationships.

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Mind Tools Team Management

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inclusive organizations support their staff to do their best work, regardless of background, circumstance or culture. As a previous non-executive board member for a mental health and wellbeing charity based in London, Sarah reflects on her experience of working in a diverse and inclusive organization. Celebrating Diversity.

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Mike Griffiths

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It needs more than just working in short iterations and having daily stand-up meetings. Organizations fail when they try to switch to an agile way of working by just implementing the visible agile work practices without the invisible supporting components. Projects and programs often combine work that suits both systems.

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Mind Tools Team Management

APRIL 28, 2022

“It’s also not a license to whine, or an invitation to sit back and just start saying everything that doesn’t work – and it’s most certainly not an invitation to relax, to lower the performance expectations,” she continues. But this freedom can only work if there are clear rules. Join the discussion below!

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Mind Tools Team Management

OCTOBER 10, 2022

My students are all adults who have been working for at least five years, and they take this course to prepare them for more senior management positions. One of the other students who worked for the same company piped up and said, “John’s boss is a psychopath.” It’s harder work to be caring.”

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Mind Tools Team Management

MARCH 24, 2022

I’ve worked in some unhealthy work environments in my career – and I’m not talking about the ones where everyone smoked at their desks and there were no windows. In one of my first jobs, the boss was a bully. These were places where the culture was all wrong, and most people felt discontented and unmotivated.

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I identified a large organization that I would like to work for that was posting lots of remote positions. He is very underpaid in his current job and is bullied and frozen out by one of the partners at his small firm. We are so grateful for your blog and your reader who gave us this idea.

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Optimum Associates

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I work and travel so much that I can’t even keep a boyfriend, It’s so unfair.” Unfortunately at work, in our personal relationships and particularly in how we give ourselves feedback, general feedback is the norm. Unfortunately, even in talent reviews where the person is not there, general feedback alone can be used and accepted.

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Chief Executive

MAY 16, 2023

Blue Yonder provides “suggested content” such as press releases or blog posts and tells employees, “Please make it your own,” says Marina Renneke, head of corporate communications. They already see social media’s value, which makes your work easier,” says Jack Underwood, CEO of the provider of delivery-routing software.

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Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They are a real measure of how your employees feel about working at your company. When your retention rate is high, it means your employees like working at your company. Meanwhile, if your rate starts to drop, that is a sign your employees are voting with their feet; they’ve decided they’d rather work somewhere else.

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Mike Griffiths

JULY 24, 2020

At the other end of the scale, we know personal attacks and bullying cannot be tolerated and must be dealt with. For example, team members may make statements like, "I know you think my idea won't work as well, but we tried your approach last time, and there were a lot of problems."

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cynthia Perry had grand plans for her new career when she started working for a powerful global business leader. Perry wrote and released a viral resignation letter in which she portrays a toxic work environment in it. As a woman of color, she was subjected to a hostile work environment. Perry did everything she could to stay.

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This post, updates: the toxic positivity meetings, dramatic responses after not being promoted, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past.

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Mind Tools Team Management

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizationally, it’s about creating a workplace culture where people bring their whole selves to work. They may feel unable to do their best work, and be uneasy about using personal experiences to develop creative solutions. Never be a bystander to harassment or bullying, bias, or negative language.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Sales Technique that Works. What we know to be true is that you can’t bully your prospect into listening. Try questions like these: “We work with many clients in similar situations, may I ask you a few questions to see if we can help you be successful?” Many prospects react negatively to sales calls.

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Walk Me

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Resistance to change Type of barrier: Emotional Resistance to change is the first emotional learning barrier we’re going to discuss – it was something we saw as companies moved to work-from-home setups, with employees refusing to adopt necessary online processes and tools critical for remote work.

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Mind Tools Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

MicheleDD_MT Being bullied at work, surviving multiple restructures and layoffs, managing through a debilitating illness… all of these events have strengthened my resolve to persevere. Almost everybody that saw him, or that I spoke to, told me I was mad, that I shouldn’t keep him, that they would never do it. Feeling Overwhelmed.

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LSA Global

MARCH 13, 2019

Let’s say you’ve worked hard to improve your culture to the point where you can be proud of how things truly get done in your organization. Here are seven of the most common threats to a positive company culture – the pollutants that can undermine what you worked so hard to build: 1. If You’ve Got It, Keep It. The Bottom Line.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I look back over the entirety of my working career (including serving at a restaurant in high school) to put bosses (and grandbosses with which I had regular interaction) into “good” versus “bad” categories, I can think of 2 really good bosses, 9 really bad bosses, and 5 neutral bosses. That’s it for today!

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Alison Green

JULY 19, 2022

It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. ” After a few weeks, my boss pulled me aside and had to gently explain why it wasn’t very professional and I shouldn’t do it anymore or it might color how people view me at work. The rock star. The entrance.

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Alison Green

JUNE 10, 2022

As for my husband’s condition, the surgery he had was successful, he’s no longer in debilitating pain, however he has nerve damage that may be irreversible, and returning to work is still uncertain for him. I started to look for work in late 2019 and I was part of a couple of hiring processes at the institution I worked at.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 23, 2021

Remote became a new normal with HR professionals making new work from home policies to provide a better work experience. And the measures that leaders must take to fight the ongoing challenges and provide a work environment that concerns overall employee well-being. Remote workers could disrupt the work environment.

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