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How a Culture of Silence Eats Away at Your Company

Harvard Business

Take these examples from a recent survey we did with managers and employees: “We had an assistant who created a very adversarial atmosphere. People would rather do her work themselves than engage with her. We surveyed 1,025 managers and employees and asked them about a time when they had a concern at work, but failed to voice it.

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How Managers Can Help Their Introverts Network

Harvard Business

HBR: Should you push an employee who’s reticent about attending a conference or networking event to “get out of their comfort zone” and just go? Any time you or an employee is attending a conference, you’ll want to think in advance about what you hope to gain from it. Here is our edited conversation. Networking.

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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business

Few topics have received more attention in talent management than motivation, defined as the deliberate attempt to influence employees’ behaviors with the goal of enhancing their performance, and in turn their organizational effectiveness. ” A global survey of more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies and 1.2

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Leaders Can’t Shy Away from Sensitive Topics, Even When It’s Awkward

Harvard Business

For many people, topics involving politics or social issues have been considered taboo at work. Although, I have to admit I definitely felt awkward broaching the subject. You need to have trust to really engage in productive dialogue. How do you handle them? What if you say the wrong thing? What if you sound stupid?

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. Keep track of how many vacation days employees have taken, and give periodic updates.

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How to Talk About Sexual Harassment with Your Coworkers

Harvard Business

If the topic of sexual harassment hasn’t come up in your office – either on Slack, in conversations over lunch, or by the watercooler — I’d be surprised. With the ongoing #metoo campaign and the almost daily headlines about men accused of harassing their coworkers, this subject is top of mind for many of us.

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How Office Politics Corrupt the Search for High-Potential Employees

Harvard Business

Few topics have captivated talent management discussions more intensely than potential. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Leaders tend to have asymmetrical information on different employees, and this personal limitation is addressed simply by picking the more familiar candidate — after all, “better the devil you know.”

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