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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Baby Boomers may tie psychological safety to job security and respect for hierarchy.

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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs.

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When training is not the right answer

The Management Centre

Fresh from her session on assertiveness with Ruby Bayley-Pratt at this years Institute of Fundraising Convention, =mc Director Yvette Gyles offers insight into why training is not always the solution. That said, the one-size-fits-all-and-all-must-attend training programme seems to remain a popular approach.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Athletes are trained to visualize themselves successfully achieving their goals before events. The reality of a volatile work environment is that it is impossible to train for every potential cross-cultural leadership situation. As a leader, you are asked questions that have no known answer. Campbell, M., Baltes, J.I.,

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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Up Your Leadership Game in 2019

Peter Stark

Our goal at Peter Barron Stark Companies is to help you up your game as a leader in 2019. Make sure every member of the team starts off the new year with a clear understanding of the desired future for 2019. Create development plans for every employee and provide necessary training. Raise the bar. Invest in your people.