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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development. Starbucks offers its employees comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and stock options, as well as opportunities for professional development.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

Earlier that month, the administrative assistant informed everyone that health insurance costs would rise without additional subsidies and no one would receive holiday bonuses this year. Earlier in the week, three people quit, the company terminated four others due to downsizing to eliminate an entire department, and payroll came a day late.

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Ten Principles for an Employee Bill of Rights

Rick Conlow

Most companies have statements of ethics or teamwork in their employee handbooks. The right to keep learning through on-going training and education so they can do an even better job or advance in their career. Executives and managers can learn but they need the training and coaching to do that. Unions are on the decline.

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Does Doing the Same Work Over and Over Again Make You Less Ethical?

Harvard Business

Companies have tried many different ways to limit unethical behavior, from creating codes of conduct to implementing ethical training. A data entry clerk might need to enter three insurance claim forms, three appeal forms, and three reimbursement requests. But these interventions are often criticized for being ineffective.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time.

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The Deep Dark Web and More Scary Things

Martinka Consulting

Do security awareness training (like Cyberstreams does) as well as ethical hacking (testing your people). Get cyber insurance, it’s inexpensive. Make sure your data is backed up and safe from ransomware (meaning, not on an external drive connected to the system all the time). Use cloud backup that’s protected from ransomware.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time.

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