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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Mary Schaefer , a coach, trainer, consultant and speaker who helps develop a culture of engagement and empowerment with tech managers and employees. Mary’s mission is to create work cultures where organizations and human beings can both thrive. Mary has a B.S.

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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). Even managers told me they couldn’t change their dreadful workdays! Executives prefer to control employees to deliver the highest possible output in the short term.

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

Economical Employee Engagement Human Resource Executive Online, January 2011. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004. Rally “Disengaged” Employees Bloomberg Business Week, February 2011.

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Will Aetna CEO Transform Healthcare (and CEO Leadership While He’s at it)?

Michael Lee Stallard

In 2004, Bertolini was seriously injured in a ski accident that fractured his neck in five places and left him struggling to recover his health. Although he still experiences neuropathy in his left arm, he manages the pain with yoga and acupuncture. Bertolini asked human resources to look into it.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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The best and the brightest

Deming Institute

It’s interesting that there’s a book designed to teach managers how to keep the BaBs that they hired. In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. For all the hype that surrounds stars, human resources experts have rarely studied their performance over time.