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

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). According to goal-setting theory, difficult yet attainable goals provide motivation for workers to improve performance (Locke & Latham, 2019).

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How to Find Career Fulfillment: Discover Your Ikigai

Organizational Talent Consulting

Athletes are trained to visualize themselves successfully achieving their goals before events. Here is a short video on the concept of mental imagery used by athletes. Here is a short video on the meaning of ikigai. It is a positive response to an actual or felt satisfaction of needs, desires, or aspirations. Penguin Life.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Athletes are trained to visualize themselves successfully achieving their goals before events. Check out this short video from an Olympic athlete on the power an use of mental imagery. The reality of a volatile work environment is that it is impossible to train for every potential cross-cultural leadership situation. Ekeocha, T.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

An estimate from the Institute for the Future suggests that up to 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 did not exist in 2019. The following video from MIT Sloan provides some insight into an explanation for this increase in the pace of change. found that only 25% of thought that training actually improved employee performance.

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Chances Are, You Are Not as Good at Performance Management as You Think!

Organizational Talent Consulting

The following popular video demonstrates the impact of blind spots. Watch the video of two separate groups passing a basketball and count how many times the white team passes the ball. Left unchallenged cognitive biases result in inaccurate views of performance. link] Recognizing cognitive biases requires deep self-awareness.

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Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

Rod Burkert

I had wonderfully high hopes for it when I first conceived of the idea in April 2019. She formerly worked in training at a large CPA firm, was well-versed in putting on webinars, and, most importantly, could negotiate the NASBA accreditation and compliance maze so the interviews would qualify for CPE credit. We launched in July 2019.

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How to Navigate Machiavellianism in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here is a short video for learning more about What “Machiavellian” really means. Training and Development: Bringing out the best in all personality types includes training and development. link] The good and bad of Machiavellianism in the workplace. Is cheating to achieve favorable results part of doing business? & Geis, F.

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