Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution?
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David De Cremer, Leander De Schutter, Jeroen Stouten, and Jess Zhang for Harvard Business Review: When employees speak up, companies benefit. Thus not surprisingly, lots of leaders say they want to encourage their employees to speak freely, whether it’s by offering creative new ideas, identifying process improvements, or even calling out unethical behavior.Read more |
Four Myths About Conflict Resolution
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Nathan Regier for Lead Change Group: Conflict has a bad rap. When I ask audiences what’s the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word “conflict,” I usually get answers like, “run away,” “somebody gets hurt,” “I hate it,” “fighting,” or “war.” Most people have negative associations with conflict, usually from personal experience. Read more |
5 Ways to Use Employee Pulse Surveys for Every Organization
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From CEB Blogs: As businesses face a larger number of more rapid changes than ever before, companies have adapted their annual employee engagement surveys to understand how employees are coping with all the change. More companies now complement their annual surveys with shorter employee pulse surveys throughout the year to measure multiple aspects including how employees are adapting to changing leadership, technology, and organizational objectives. Read more |
How to Work With People You Don’t Like
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Art Petty for the Excellence in Government Blog: Nearly 100 percent of the time, my coaching and consulting assignments bump up against the relationship issue as an obstacle. Not my relationship with the client, but rather somewhere in the client environment, an important relationship that is so dysfunctional and sometimes toxic it rises to the surface as an impediment to progress. Read more |
Corporations Ignore Whistleblowers at Their Peril
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Elizabeth C. Tippett for New Republic: Enron. WorldCom. The Madoff scandal. The mortgage meltdown. Now Wells Fargo. High-profile corporate frauds like these all seem to follow the same pattern. First the misconduct is discovered, and then we learn about all of the whistleblowers who tried to stop the fraud much earlier. Read more |
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