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Resilience and Mental Well-Being

3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart

3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart

Keeping a team’s energy dialed up through tough times has always been a challenging task — but sustaining resilience in a pandemic? Nobody has written a playbook for that. As Gallup asked in its end of 2021 report: “How can managers be expected to improve the engagement and wellbeing of your workforce if they, themselves,...

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To stem the Great Resignation employers need to bolster mental health offerings

To stem the Great Resignation employers need to bolster mental health offerings

In the post-pandemic world, mental well-being in the workplace should be more than a safety net or medical benefit. It is a driver of shareholder value and productivity, and critical in the war for talent. Organizations that crack the code of well-being in this new paradigm of hybrid work—banishing the outdated stigma around mental health...

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7 Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team

7 Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team

Announcing Q4 results that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, Apple CEO Tim Cook identified resilient, high-functioning teams as a key element that fortified the company in the midst of the pandemic’s unprecedented challenges. “Even though we’re apart, it’s been obvious this year that around the company, teams and colleagues have been leaning on and counting on...

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Winter Blues: Seven Tools To Foster Mental Wellness In The Workplace

Winter Blues: Seven Tools To Foster Mental Wellness In The Workplace

With the holiday season upon us, the physical and mental toll of social distancing, wearing a mask, and working from home for the last nine months is adding up. “It’s like 1918, 1929, and 1968 have hit us in less than nine months,” said Maureen Solero, Vice President of Organization and Leadership Development of Nuvance...

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Here’s how to fix what’s sapping your team’s energy

Here’s how to fix what’s sapping your team’s energy

Zoom happy hours? Check. Slack channels for #dogs and #sourdough? Check. Free meditation apps for everyone? Check. Businesses have thrown a lot of solutions at rising frustration, fatigue, and stress in the workplace. Is it working? The jury’s out. In June, the CDC reported that 40% of U.S. adults struggled with mental health and substance...

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The Art of Audacious Conversation

The Art of Audacious Conversation

Nothing in my life has created opportunity like a willingness to ask, whatever the situation. When I was just an anonymous attendee at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, I walked onto a hotel bus and saw Nike founder Phil Knight. Knight was like a rock star to me, given his extraordinary success at creating...

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Love In The Time Of Cubicles

Love In The Time Of Cubicles

Whenever companies have me help their people build stronger relationships for professional success and personal joy, I always share one powerful point that’s quite prominent in my book Never Eat Alone: Business relationships are personal relationships. I know this from experience. Some of the best personal friends I’ve ever had have also been my bosses,...

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When to Walk Away

When to Walk Away

Last month at TED2006 I had dinner with a leader of a major technology company, and we discussed the Big Task Summit my firm is hosting in April. On behalf of our clients Kaiser Permanente, Safeway, and Dupont, we’re inviting leaders from 30 other companies to share in some significant research focused on reducing corporate...

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Feeling Out Of Your League?

Feeling Out Of Your League?

We’ve all felt it from time to time — the anticipation of getting an autograph from a childhood hero, the nervous energy before making a sales call with the major industry player, the one-of-a-kind rush and paralysis that comes from feeling just a bit out of your league. No matter how much I personally think...

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