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The 20 Best Employee Retention Strategies

Vantage Circle

Creating a highly engaged workplace begins with having an effective employee retention strategy. Employee retention is the organization’s goal to keep talented and skilled employees. For a lower employee retention, you need to nurture and engage your talent to stop them from leaving. Did you know, two out of three workers are planning to quit their jobs this year?

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Dear CEOs: Focus On The Heart Of Your Company To Improve Organizational Health

15Five

Managers are at the heart of your organization, vigilantly pumping the lifeblood of inspiration and support throughout the teams they lead. And just like the body, if your heartbeat isn’t strong, the rest of your company will lag and ultimately fail. CEOs, the brain of the organization, must design healthy workplaces and empower managers to bring out the best in their people.

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16 Signs You’re a Toxic Leader

Leadership Freak

The trouble with toxic leaders is they’re deadly and don’t know it. But if the truth be told, every leader smells at least a little. Every time toxicity gets its way, organizations lose.

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How to Work Better by Doing Less

Mind Tools Strategy

Have you ever noticed how differently people work when doing the same task? For example, two colleagues can be both putting together similar presentations. One finishes the project in a day, the other takes three weeks. The quality of the work is the same, but one is able to work better. . Morten Hansen. Morten Hansen has personal experience of this, and it got him thinking. “When I started my career at the Boston Consulting Group in London, I worked very hard and I tried to succeed,”

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Gift ideas [2021 Update]

Vantage Circle

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2019 if it’s already done and dusted?

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Dear CEOs: Improve Organizational Health By Focusing On The Heart Of Your Company (Your Managers)

15Five

Managers are at the heart of your organization, vigilantly pumping the lifeblood of inspiration and support throughout the teams they lead. And just like the body, if your heartbeat isn’t strong, the rest of your company will lag and ultimately fail. CEOs (the brain of the organization) must design healthy workplaces and empower managers to bring out the best in their people.

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The Power of Strategic Alignment

LSA Global

The Power of Strategic Alignment. No matter what the goal and what the strategy to reach it, the better you and your team are aligned and working together, the more likely you will succeed. We call this the power of strategic alignment and it accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing teams in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Gift ideas in 2018

Vantage Circle

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2018 if it’s already done and dusted?

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Life of the Party

Kevin Eikenberry

by Bob Kealing I am guessing you have used or at least seen a piece of Tupperware. Chances are you don’t know much about the creation of the product or its creator, Earl Tupper. It is even less likely you know anything about Brownie Wise, the builder the Tupperware Party process; the process that made […]. The post Life of the Party appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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A Getting It Wrong Plan

Leadership Freak

I came across a pony-tailed biker-type guy with a long scruffy beard in a cigar shop. He was a retired union pipefitter that had traveled the country welding pipes in nuclear power plants.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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How to Deliver Bad News as a Manager

LSA Global

When the News Is Bad. No one likes to receive bad news. But it sometimes seems harder to deliver than to receive it. If you do not know how to deliver bad news as a manager, it is time you learn before it is too late. Unfortunately, too many new or inexperienced managers find it so difficult that they tend to avoid sharing bad news altogether. How to Deliver Bad News as a Manager.

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Burning Man’s Key Lessons On The Social Dynamics Of Community Based Work Culture

15Five

At 15Five we use research frequently; whether it be our evidence-based management approach or using data to analyze our own growth as a company. As such, it made perfect sense to seek the advice of a social psychologist to help us understand the science behind work culture and the social dynamics at play in every business. In addition to authoring three novels (see www.TonyVigorito.com ), including his most recent underground hit, Love and Other Pranks , Tony Vigorito, Ph.D. is a social psycholo

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Why Coaching is the Gap Even When People Don’t Know It

Kevin Eikenberry

I talk with leaders nearly every day, and often I hear strains of angst and consternation about problems with their teams and team members. There is nothing wrong with identifying problems or issues. Unfortunately, too often after describing a problem, the conversation shifts to blame, frustration, and surrender. When we feel as if there is […].

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You Judge Others by the Stories You Tell Yourself About Them

Leadership Freak

The story you tell yourself feels true even when it’s false. We all judge. You help people be themselves when you judge them by who they are, not the story in your head.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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4 Effective Ways to Sell Change

LSA Global

How to Sell Change. When you have determined that change is needed at your organization, you have taken only the first step on the journey. If you are committed to succeeding at change, it helps to understand how a bit of salesmanship can support and bolster your plan. Successful change leaders know the effective ways to sell change to their stakeholders. 4 Effective Ways to Sell Change.

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Who to Encourage and Who to Kick in the Pants

Leadership Freak

Experienced leaders benefit most from tough feedback, as long as they’re committed to growth. Novices need encouraging feedback.

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One Foolish Conversation And Three Keys to Skillful Conversation

Leadership Freak

One foolish conversation can pollute an entire team. If we understood the pervasive power of conversations, we’d open our mouths with greater care.

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Dear Dan: How Can I Shut My Trap

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I lead a team of high capacity leaders and we all serve a recovering benevolent dictator, who himself is a dynamic catalyst and the reason for our organization’s growth.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Dear Dan: Should I Let Her Blame Herself

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I am a relatively inexperienced leader in a small software business. Recently, one of my people failed to perform to her own expectations and that of our client.

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What Are You Reading? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Every week for the last several years, my remote team has shared a weekly report with updates and pertinent information for the other teammates. And while this report has changed over the years, there is one component that has been consistent: What have you learned this week? And last week, I shared a very valuable […]. The post What Are You Reading?

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A Closed Heart Can’t Be Led

Leadership Freak

A closed heart can’t be led. Anything you do or say that gives permission for people to open their hearts enhances your leadership.

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Dear Dan: How Do You Get Lousy Managers to Listen

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I am an attorney. I have a client involved in a worker’s comp claim against the County. This is a small rural county.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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The Link Between Manager Recognition and Engagement

LSA Global

Manager Recognition Matters for Employee Engagement and Retention. With the tenure of knowledge workers reported to be less than three years at a single company, the importance of engaging and retaining high-performers continues to grow. Beyond the feel-good part about recognition that confirms that you were noticed and appreciated, the link between manager recognition and engagement encourages future discretionary effort and increases employees’ intent to stay longer at their company.

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