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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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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. Ageism’s Pervasive Impact Educational and Training Disparities Studies show a direct correlation between lower levels of education and training and decreased employment rates (OECD/Generation, 2023).

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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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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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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

Its significance can make or break successfully “refreezing” those changes into a workplace’s culture (Lewin), especially in a business landscape marked by rapid evolutions. Flexible Organizational Culture: A culture that promotes openness to new ideas and approaches fundamentally fosters success. link] Singh, S.

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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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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye. Managers are poorly trained and disengaged from executive leadership. In addition, his firing of employees and new culture at Twitter is textbook toxic. It could be so much better. Look at the stats below.