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The Great Resignation Stems from a Great Exploration

The Great Resignation Stems from a Great Exploration

“The Great Resignation” keeps growing before our eyes. Every month, the ranks of the resigned swell some more — nearly 57 million Americans quit between January 2021 and February 2022. Many companies seem to be struggling for answers in the face of skyrocketing attrition rates. How to stanch the bleeding? Perhaps a better idea is to change...

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Remote Meetings: The New Work Rules For High-Performing Teams In The Remote Work World

Remote Meetings: The New Work Rules For High-Performing Teams In The Remote Work World

To transform team collaboration you need a new set of practices that fit the virtual environment rather than port tired old methods into remote meetings. Wrong-headed research says remote work does not work based on companies who were doing it wrong.  With Verizon, Dell Technologies and Harvard Business School, we are going to give you...

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Want Faster, Bolder Collaboration? Stop Meeting.

Want Faster, Bolder Collaboration? Stop Meeting.

Our massive post pandemic research project proved that highly inclusive collaboration combined with faster decision making was not only possible, but necessary to create bold innovation. Sadly, we also found that most leaders assume those two objectives are at odds. The traditional sentiment is that more people means more meetings, and more meetings means slower...

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How To Make Your Virtual Offsite Better Than The Real Thing

How To Make Your Virtual Offsite Better Than The Real Thing

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. I remember people practicing their presentations far into the night, and the next day we’d sit for hours in uncomfortable chairs in a huge hotel ballroom, listening to speaker after speaker talk...

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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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Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching

Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching

One of the unintended consequences of the constant right-sizing and flattening of our organizations is that we now live in a world where managers just don’t have time to do all that’s required of them in their daily jobs, let alone find time for coaching their employees. Yet coaching is a critical job for any...

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