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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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A conversation on leadership in 2022 – with Cassie Edmiston

The Management Centre

We listened in on a conversation between one of our leadership experts, Yvette Gyles (=mc Learning Director) and Cassie Edmiston (Head of Fundraising and Communications, Prisoners’ Education Trust ), d iscussing the challenges of leadership in 2022. Yvette: Thanks again Cassie for taking the time to talk to me about all things leadership.

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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. 2022) highlight a significant change in attitudes toward mental health.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Lovely writes openly his experiences working in the $15 Billion annual revenue (2022) firm and recommends an approach to more accountability, especially in government arenas. Lovely has since left McKinsey.

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture. Here are five signs of a toxic culture and two detoxing steps every leader can take. Why Leaders Need to be Concerned About a Toxic Culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences every aspect of a business.

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. This bias, predicated on age, undermines the principles of equity and diversity with potential ethical issues. I’m writing this article around my 48th birthday.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. References Holiday, R.

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