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How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork

Harvard Business

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

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Retaining the Best of Your Culture Amid Organizational Change

Harvard Business

While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady. As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors.

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3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive

Harvard Business

Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures.

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How to Build a Culture That Honors Quiet Time

Harvard Business

Reclaim a bit of silence in an increasingly noisy world.

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6 Steps to Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Speaker: Jennifer Fairweather, CHRO for Jefferson County, Educator, and Speaker & Keren Wasserman, Organizational Effectiveness Program Manager at Lyra Health

This makes it more important than ever to create a work culture where people can acknowledge their struggles and ask for help. As organizations adopt hybrid and remote work capabilities, it is critical for leaders to figure out how to provide the same level of support to dispersed teams as they did to in-office workers.

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How to Improve Women’s Advancement Programs

Harvard Business

But by taking this approach, companies may be unintentionally communicating a culture of conformity by asking women to change who they are to succeed. Most corporate women’s advancement programs center on teaching women a predefined slate of skills purported to give them more control over their careers.

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Mentoring and Coaching: Developing Future Leaders

Effective Managers

Both foster a culture of growth and help individuals enhance their skills, setting the stage for long-term success. Lets explore the importance of these practices and how to implement them effectively to develop future leaders. Provide Training and Resources Even experienced leaders benefit from guidance on how to be effective mentors.

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The Modern Customer Success Playbook

The evolution of every high-functioning, effective customer success strategy centers around three C’s: connected experiences, an engaging customer journey, and a culture built on customer-centricity. Satisfaction won’t cut it. But where do you start? Create highly targeted segments to drive more contextual and personalized engagements.