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Make Successful Promotions Part of Your Company’s Culture

Most workers dream about moving up the ladder, getting a more impressive title, and landing a raise. Those offered higher positions usually think...

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workplace bullying

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Use Your Company’s Culture to Stand Up to Workplace Bullying

Headlines about egregious workplace bullying cases are not uncommon. Job-related harassment became such a prominent problem that the U.S. Equal...

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Cultivating a Growth Mindset Company Culture

After decades of research, renowned Stanford professor Carol Dweck envisioned a new framework for assessing people’s potential. Her seminal 2007...

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Style Over Substance: Why Virtue Signaling Backfires in Business

We all know the virtue signaling types: individuals who regale us with the wonderful things they do and represent. Some of these people are simply...

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People Power in the AI Age: What Leaders Should Look for in New Hires

Companies regaining their footing in the pandemic’s wake now struggle to keep up with rocketing changes affecting the marketplace. As they grapple...

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company rituals

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The Power of Using Rituals in Company Culture

The concept of practicing rituals at work may seem a bit odd. We often associate them with religious customs or recreational activities like...

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From a Mentoring Program to a Mentoring Culture

Your organization probably sponsored a mentoring program at one time or another. But there’s a good chance the program ended. What caused it to fail?...

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value long term employees

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Tenure Track: The Value of Long-term Employees and How to Retain Them

The Great Resignation’s most significant toll may have been the mass departure of tenured employees. Losing any staff member is costly for an...

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Time for a Check-Up: What’s the State of your Organizational Health?

Organizational health has been a hot topic in our post-pandemic era, but it’s nothing new. The concept cropped up over sixty years ago when W.G....

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pitfalls of using family at work

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The Pitfalls of Projecting a “Family Culture” at Work

“We’re like a family here” is a statement that jobseekers often hear from companies during the recruiting process. The organizations want to convey...

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