Candace Coleman

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What’s New about Employee Engagement? Three Companies Leading the Way

When William Kahn coined the term “employee engagement” in 1990, he defined it as “when people bring themselves fully into their work.” The professor of organizational behavior at Boston University helped business leaders understand that people are...

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Misplaced Logic: Why Some CEOs Fail to Prioritize Workplace Culture

Once a secondary topic in boardrooms, workplace culture has risen to prominence in the business world over the past several decades. Now it’s hard to...

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Looking Ahead: What Will Be the Top HR Trends in 2023?

Human Resources is a complicated field, and those who make it their career have many opinions about best practices. But one thing most HR...

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2022 Roundup: 10 Articles that Explore the Impact of Workplace Culture

As we close the book on 2022, we reflect on a year that started mid-pandemic and finished in a cloud of economic uncertainty. For many, 2022 felt...

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hands holding the words: business ethics

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The Connection Between Ethics and Workplace Culture

You may have heard that the term “business ethics,” like “jumbo shrimp” and “original copy,” is an oxymoron. The joke persists because many people...

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How to Develop a Safety Culture and Prevent Occupational Hazards

Safety is crucial to many industries, such as those that involve heavy machinery, complex equipment, chemicals, and health procedures. Unfortunately,...

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Workplace Culture and Job Stability: What’s the Connection?

When the term Great Resignation started rumbling through the workplace, many pointed to employers’ inflexibility as the root cause. The phrase...

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The Role of Company Culture in Sustaining a Family Business

Family businesses spanning successive generations have existed for centuries, from farms, to trades, to shops, to specialized services. “Mom-and-pop”...

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How to Build a Positive Workplace Culture

CEOs have historically focused on big-picture goals like profit, market share, and growth. Employee happiness? Not so much. Beyond offering a fair...

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Build a Coaching Culture to Fortify Your Team and Best the Competition

Great coaching is the foundation of any winning team. Few CEOs would argue that point when it comes to sports. But curiously, they often don’t see...

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