Use a Contest to Encourage Innovative Thinking
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Build the Right Virtual Team
Build the Right Virtual Team [caption id="attachment_1920" align="alignleft" width="247"] Build the Right Virtual Team[/caption] Virtual…
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Build Trust with Your Type A Boss
Build Trust with Your Type A Boss It's not easy working under high performers. While…
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Don’t Let a Group Dynamic Quash Critical Thinking
Don’t Let a Group Dynamic Quash Critical Thinking
People often censor themselves when working in groups because they don’t want to be punished for voicing an opinion that differs from everyone else’s. (more…)
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Assign New Challenges to Keep Your Employees Satisfied
Employees don't just want their skills used, they want them stretched. If your team members…
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Make Engaging Your Older Workers a Priority
Make Engaging Your Older Workers a Priority
To increase motivation, performance, and loyalty, companies need to do a much better job of engaging a valuable and growing segment of the workforce: older workers. This is a major resource that Graphic has and we use them to great effect. Most of the institutional memory resides with them. (more…)
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Set a Bedtime and Stick to It for Better Productivity
Set a Bedtime and Stick to It for Better Productivity …
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Be Skeptical of Your Data
Be Skeptical of Your Data Managers shouldn’t take important analyses at face value, even if…
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Words of Wisdom
Don’t Give Feedback When You Don’t Need To
Don’t Give Feedback When You Don’t Need To While feedback should be a regular part…
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Find Your Footing After a Bad Performance Review
Find Your Footing After a Bad Performance Review
 It’s hard to pick yourself up after a bad performance review. But in order to move forward, you have to push past any anger and embarrassment and use the critical feedback to improve. (more…)