Decker Communication

JUNE 28, 2021

I’ve been lucky enough to manage people for most of my career. Every role over the next few decades involved people management. While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible.

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HR Digest

MAY 13, 2024

Amidst declining sales and tough competition from the Chinese EV market, the company decided to cut costs on the back end instead of looking to resolve the many reasons behind declining sales, all of which have led us to this Tesla layoff update. It was time for a change.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

What this means is that you are using much less energy in the office, plus it can also bring various other benefits for both the company and the employee. Switch To Alternative Energy. One of the most effective strategies for this is to switch to alternative energy. Do Your Own Marketing. Encourage Remote Working.

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Cost How To Insurance Software 99

Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

A former Google executive- wasn’t Mayer supposed to bring new energy to Yahoo!, Part of being a leader is managing change. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. For instance, a business wants to expand its social media marketing.

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White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2024

Understanding employee benefits and being generous with the job perks are key components of retaining employees and companies that fail in this regard will start to see high turnover rates the moment the job market settles down. Image: Freepik Understanding Employee Benefits—What Do They Involve??

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. I still have that note in my desk, and I use it when talking to our executives about what to pursue and where to put their energy.

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Decker Communication

JUNE 28, 2021

I’ve been lucky enough to manage people for most of my career. Every role over the next few decades involved people management. While I loved all my roles, one in particular really helped me grow as a leader — managing a call center in financial services. The energy in a call center is incredible.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It showed engagement was slipping, trust was faltering, and morale was waning. The HR VP outlined a process to feed back the survey results to management and frontline teams across the organization in the coming months. But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy. Empartnerment.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2020

The current job market favors candidates, and research shows that there are currently more job openings than hires. This should cut your office overheads and can also be an effective strategy to boost office morale and employee engagement. You may also be able to instantly reduce your business expenses by finding better energy rates.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

COVID-19 has taken a great blow to stock markets worldwide. Ironically, this is a great time to invest in the stock market. To make the best investments during a stock market crash, look out for companies that have a great management history. These include food, energy and communications companies.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

When organizations were hidden behind opaque operational fronts and top-down, one-way marketing, a leader was expected to play the role of an omnipotent god. Trust in an organization’s leader was created by their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Without trust, you get nowhere.&# – Jack Trout “Everything in marketing points to the reality that the profitable companies are those that have earned the confidence of their public. — The Product Management Perspective: Trust is vital for product managers. Followers trust it’s the right direction.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In the post, Jim explains, “With Baby Boomers marching steadily towards the retirement door, it’s time to take stock and reflect how we pass the torch to the next generations: Gen X and Gen Y, the latter generation having particular job market challenges.” ” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Do young employees buy into “we want to do good and change the world” as sincere or do they see it as phony cause marketing, more about being profitable than truly doing good. During Covid, my research showed that where leaders did least well was keeping up morale. Take a genuine interest in others. Encourage others regularly.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. Jason Westland introduces us to a Method123 Project Management Methodology (MPMM TM ), which defines the best practice phases, activities and tasks required to complete a project on time and within budget.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Strategies for Boosting Morale by Kevin Eikenberry on November 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning A participant from a workshop I led several years ago posed a question to me last week. I know morale is important!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

You need to evaluate the amount of output you get from a team member (the results of their work) and compare that to the amount of time and energy you have to invest in them to get it. Intangibles : To what degree do they improve morale in their immediate team? Managing Talent in a Passion Driven Job Market.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Benefits of Hiring Overqualified Candidates With more and more people turning to higher education and earning multiple degrees, there are often people with a greater depth of knowledge for the starter jobs that are on the market. Any resources spent on the training of an overqualified employee can thus be channeled elsewhere.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If there is one maxim which describes the frustration many C-suite executives and senior level managers feel when trying to trying to get a strategy executed, it is: “People know what they are supposed to do. They just don’t do it.”. This is detailed in Fortune’s “ How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup ,” a recommended read.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation. I have formally researched management tools and techniques for 25 years.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When you personalize the topic, situation or negative energy, you make it harder to respond in a more positive way. You may take it personally or find the situation so important that you can’t pull yourself out of it. However, the reality is most of the time others are far more focused on themselves and their issues than on you.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 14, 2010

Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. We're beginning to see, however, that multi-tasking is not necessarily the ideal work style that it's been thought to be.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. In my view, management now has no choice but to teach values.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

In the years since my first book, The Radical Leap , was first published, I’ve heard from countless business people about the importance of LEAP (cultivate Love, generate Energy, inspire Audacity, and provide Proof) in their own endeavors at work. Introduction. Now that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Sales were declining, bankruptcy rumors were swirling, and employee morale had never been lower. The term can describe anyone in the workplace – a boss, coworker, employee, or client – who sucks the life and energy right out of you. It’s just that some people regularly (and inadvertently) exhibit energy-draining behaviors.

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Gordon Energy Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Noer writes how the emotional impact of downsizing and the subsequent extra workload disturbs employee morale and productivity long after the fact. Not only was there a sense of unfairness and anger over top management pay and severance, but symptoms of insecurity, anxiety, and fear that discouraged innovation and creative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. .” ” Besides, Dillon adds, you shouldn’t “waste your energy” on disliking a colleague.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. However they they proceed to argue for elimination of same. [.]

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. In my view, management now has no choice but to teach values.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D. That guy’s an idiot.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. These are just a couple of examples of the workplace conflicts that take up 42 percent of the typical manager’s time. It’s important to note that The Exchange was designed by mediators for managers.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D. That guy’s an idiot.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2011

These wise words should be the mantra for every organization hiring from today’s overcrowded job market. Covers both day-to-day dilemmas and larger questions of management, accountability, and vision. What does the Bible say about time management? Hasty hiring brings eventual firing. What is the number one downfall for leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

At the organizational level, they can decrease morale and fuel cynicism, especially if CEO pay climbs while average wages stall or grow more slowly, as they have in countries like the U.S., If this occurs then all directors (except the managing director) must stand for re-election within 90 days. UK, and Australia.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

The scene was a corporate cliché – the annual management meeting. I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. The guy beside me leaned over and knowingly whispered, “He doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the managers here tonight.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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