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It's in the Brain - leadership and social issues
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| It is now fairly well accepted that the brain has three quite clear areas from which to control our behaviour – the area closest to the brain stem (sometimes called ‘the reptilian brain”), the limbic area (sometimes called “the mammalian brain”), and the cortical area (sometimes called “the human brain”. There is hard data that shows where teachers engage with students, the students become more responsive to learning and they don’t want to “let the teacher down”. In turn this has an impact by reducing antisocial behaviour in the community around the school. There is also hard data that shows where employees are engaged with their work and with their co-workers, there is significant reduction in lateness, absenteeism, sickness, and abuse of trust. |
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Get Well And Stay Well – Maintain An Alkaline Body pH
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| How would you like to learn about some little known, critical wellness information that will help you and your staff members better gain and maintain a productive and competitive edge in the workplace? Read on and see how this wellness information will help you and your staff members reduce the costs and negative impacts of absenteeism, medical costs and health insurance premium costs. |
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Stress Management Tips: Job Burnout Prevention
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| Job burnout is an insidious problem in the American workforce, among all levels of employees. Frequently undiagnosed, burnout may appear in job statistics of absenteeism statistics, in suicide rates, or in the development of chronic illnesses that keep employees from working. Ultimately, working oneself to death can be the disguise for job burnout. |
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Do you have a toxic employee in your workplace?
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| Does your business (or a department within your business) suffer from any of the following symptoms:
(a) High absenteeism;
(b) High staff turnover rates;
(c) Complaints about management?
If so, then these symptoms are a sign of low levels of engagement. However, contrary to common belief, the problem may not lie with your disengaged employee. I’ll explain why.
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How Much Can Your Staff Handle?...The Limiting Factor Behind Sustainable Productivity Gains
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| Most companies are now trying to boost flagging profits with a smaller workforce. What that means is that each member of your staff will be required to work with greater speed , efficiency and productivity than ever before. But what if your remaining staff can't physically, mentally or emotionally handle this increased workload? What will it cost your company in terms of absenteeism, workers compensation and skyrocketing health premiums if your company just wears out your employees to the point of illness, injury or burn out? What can you do to prevent employee burnout?
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8 Steps to Foster Employee Happiness
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| Are you having a problem with high turnover? Are your top performers leaving in droves? Are there performance issues? The key to overcoming these challenges is employee happiness.
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Hidden Costs and Benefits of Conflict Management
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| This article discusses the costs of unmanaged conflict and how a conflict management system can save money. |
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Stresses in the Workplace and How to Combat Same
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| Stress is the body’s reaction to outside influences, demands or strains. In a sense, the body is revved up to respond to a threat or a challenge.
Everybody experiences stress occasionally and this is unlikely to have any lasting impact unless the experience is particularly traumatic. Such acute stress can occur as a result of actual or threatened violence. Staff employed in banks, post offices, public transport, the health service and other occupations are at risk of experiencing acute stress as a result of robberies, assaults and violence.
Every precaution needs to be taken to protect workers in vulnerable situations against such risks. Where incidents do occur, procedures should exist, including independent counseling where necessary, to minimise the long–term impact. |
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Taxes The Good News and the Bad News For Increasing Business Productivity
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| Cost to do business extends far beyond the standard fix costs of rent, utilities, insurance, etc. How you address these costs has a direct bearing on your sales to profits to employee retention. |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
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| Business is no longer what is used to be. Particularly in the Finance Department of organisations. The past few years have seen unprecedented change in the top levels of management within companies. Expectations are higher. And the rules of engagement have changed. In addition to protecting and developing revenue streams, the CEO, the board and the shareholders increasingly expect Financial Managers and CFO's to evolve the business in line with current trends. It has become evident that the finance professionals role within any organisation is more complex than is currently understood and leadership skills will be challenged more so than ever before.
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Importance of Corporate Wellness Programs
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| Corporate Wellness Programs have gone from becoming an after thought of "something that we should do" to a necessity for any small, medium or large company. With today's rising medical and insurance costs at an all time high no company can afford not to instill some form of a Wellness Program into their organization. These programs can be extremely low budget (pennies on the dollar) and can be implemented on employees own time. |
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Successful Interviewing
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| The primary reason for the failure of most interviews to identify a truly outstanding candidate is that most interviews focus on the capabilities, background and experience of the prospective employee. This approach ignores the fact that the interviewee is a human being that the employer is going to have to live with day after day. There is a way to stack the odds in your favor and significantly increase the likelihood that you will be satisfied with the employee that you select. It all depends upon how you conduct the employee interview.
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Its not fair!
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| As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair?
If you do, stop!
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You didn’t say I’d be fired!
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| Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted? |
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Always isn’t every time
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| As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications? |
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Just the facts
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| Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way? |
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My Door is Always Open
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| Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve? |
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My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
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| Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system? |
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That person has a difficult personality
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| Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult? |
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
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| Do you have opinions on someone based on their age? |
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The Facebook Revolution
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| Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer? |
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Not listening can be catastrophic
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| Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?! |
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Dealing with Morons
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| Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?! |
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The $64,000 Question
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| Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems? |
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Dirt on the car
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| DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS? |
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Questions, Jeopardy Style
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| Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself? |
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The questions which lead to nowhere
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| DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF? |
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Surviving an Economic Downturn: Creative Alternatives to Layoffs
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| It seems that you can't escape the headlines these days about the gloomy economic news. In every media outlet, we read or hear about stock market losses, real estate slowdowns, job losses, bankruptcies and bailouts. These are clearly challenging economic times.
One key question for your business is how do you handle the economic slowdown when it comes to your staffing levels? Should you institute a hiring freeze? Can you take advantage of layoffs at your competitors by snatching up strong performers that they've been forced to downsize? Or do you need to layoff employees yourself?
In this article, we look at some of the options facing small- and medium-sized businesses when determining how to handle their human resources needs during an economic slowdown.
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Change Leadership Management
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Many small businesses experience change. Change leadership is the art of helping your team through the change management cycle. Each person shows different emotions and behaviour during change. It’s perfectly normal to experience a real mix of emotions. Not everyone feels all of these feelings intensely and people don’t go through them by numbers.
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Young Men Struggle with WorkLife Balance Too
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| Is it true that women are the only ones in the workplace struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance? It might seem so because women are traditionally viewed as the caregivers, childminders, and home-makers. Trying to balance all of those roles with the demands of work can truly prove overwhelming, even for the most adept multi-tasker. However, recent research would suggest that men - young men in particular - are also at risk for increased stress due to struggling with work-life balance. |
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Back to Basics: HR Lessons the Boss Needs to Know
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| Building a happy and productive workforce doesn't have to be rocket science. By maintaining fair policies, providing good feedback and cultivating a respectful and positive work environment, organizations can reap huge rewards.
But organizations sometimes forget to cover the basics of proper human resources management. From absenteeism and a demoralized workplace atmosphere to outright sabotage, the consequences to a company of not implementing some basic HR techniques can be devastating. |
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Tough on Bullying
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| Not having processes that identify and deal with bullying can cost millions of dollars down the track. |
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Learn how to effectively utilize employee attendance incentives
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| Employees have been known to take excessive days off leading to production problems for many companies. One of the solutions is employee attendance incentives. These are usually rewards given to employees as an incentive to limit their absences from work to a specified number of days. |
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20 Ways to Tell if Your Employees Hate You
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| In the history of leadership there has been a consistent trend where employees dislike their leaders. This doesn't happen by chance, it takes a great deal of concerted effort by those running the organization. Find out if you do things that make your employees hate you. |
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Warp Speed or Blow Out
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| Life is measured by how fast and how much we can get done in a short period of time! Are you burning yourself out? |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 1
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 2
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 3
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 4
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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The loud woman at Starbucks
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| Do you find any of your employees irritating? |
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Managing techies
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| Do you need to come from a technical background to manage technical people? |
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Motivation with consequences
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| How do you motivate someone to do something they don’t want to do? |
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Jumping to Conclusions
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| As managers and leaders, how do we put aside our beliefs and experiences when we’re listening? |
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Work At Home Business Ideas And Opportunities For Beginners
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| There are many reasons why individuals express an interest in starting their own business from home which makes the desirability level of this type of occupation quite high. Here are some of the most profitable home business ideas to consider starting today. |
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WorkLife Balance & Employee Engagement
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| An engaged employee is likely a more productive employee. An attitude adjustment or a morph of strategy can foster worker loyalty for both small and large businesses. Addressing the concerns of your workers with regard to worklife balance is another way to create better relationships between the rank and file - and top brass. And those changes just might impact your bottom line in the end. |
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Does Stress Have to be the Cost of Success?
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| Job stress has become a common and costly problem in the American workplace, leaving few workers untouched. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health finds that stress-related ailments cost companies $200 billion a year in increased absenteeism, tardiness and loss of worker talent. Job tension is tied directly to a lack of productivity and loss of competitive edge. Between 70% and 90% of employee hospital visits are linked to stress. Most business owners and managers recognize this enormous burden against profitability, yet the challenge continues to grow. Why? |
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4.2 Rights at work and development: Working Out of Poverty
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| A successful strategy for strengthening the governance of labour markets
must recognize that they are different from other markets because they
concern people. We all live in societies in which social status and self-esteem
are strongly tied to both occupation and income. |
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Other absenteeism Related Articles
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10 Ways to Break it to them Gently - Diplomacy tips that keep customers
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| The task of giving bad news goes with almost every job. Employees may have to inform their customers of a price increase, of a product being out-of stock, or that their children aren't allowed to use the company's coat racks for rappelling practice. Employees facing these scenarios worry that the customer could become defensive, offended, or worst of all -- simply take their business elsewhere. That's a scenario where everyone loses. Employees get stressed, absenteeism and turnover increases, and customer retention plummets. Fortunately, there is hope. |
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Presenteeism: An Under-the-Radar Challenge to Your Productivity
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| While absenteeism is a long recognized management challenge, presenteeism may actually be a more costly loss of workforce productivity. What is it? |
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Job Stress What Can You Do Part I
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| Today’s workforce faces a multitude of pressures: deadlines, office politics, nonproductive meetings, conflict, job ambiguity, miscommunication, increased workload, inadequate resources, customer complaints and long hours. . . to name just a few. On-the-job stress can be quite costly, too, because it often results in increased absenteeism, reduced efficiency, low morale, reduced effectiveness, and high staff turnover.
This is the first of a two part series on dealing with work-related stress… |
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Back to Basics: HR Lessons the Boss Needs to Know
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| Building a happy and productive workforce doesn't have to be rocket science. By maintaining fair policies, providing good feedback and cultivating a respectful and positive work environment, organizations can reap huge rewards.
But organizations sometimes forget to cover the basics of proper human resources management. From absenteeism and a demoralized workplace atmosphere to outright sabotage, the consequences to a company of not implementing some basic HR techniques can be devastating. |
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Five Stress Management Secrets for Challenging Times: How to Use Stress for Your Career Success
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| When you learn how to manage stress, you benefit in the following ways:
* Improved health and decreased incidence of disease
* Improved mood
* Improved memory and thinking
* Improved sleep
* Improved relationships
* Reduced absenteeism
* Improved productivity
* Improved workplace environment
The following are five stress management secrets that will allow you to fulfill your career, business, and life ambitions while living a happier life
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Get Well And Stay Well – Maintain An Alkaline Body pH
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| How would you like to learn about some little known, critical wellness information that will help you and your staff members better gain and maintain a productive and competitive edge in the workplace? Read on and see how this wellness information will help you and your staff members reduce the costs and negative impacts of absenteeism, medical costs and health insurance premium costs. |
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What Are You Like at Growing People?
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| Too many managers are still using 20th century traditions for 21st century staff development. The result? Rapid staff turnover, excessive absenteeism and staff conflicts. We need new ways to look at old problems. People are a part of nature, so what can we learn from growing plants? |
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How To Reduce Absenteeism
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| Often sickness is not the real reason for absenteeism. Here, among other things, we discuss a revealing study that could be the springboard to bring your absenteeism experience down to 5% or less. |
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Stress Management Tips: Job Burnout Prevention
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| Job burnout is an insidious problem in the American workforce, among all levels of employees. Frequently undiagnosed, burnout may appear in job statistics of absenteeism statistics, in suicide rates, or in the development of chronic illnesses that keep employees from working. Ultimately, working oneself to death can be the disguise for job burnout. |
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Do you have a toxic employee in your workplace?
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| Does your business (or a department within your business) suffer from any of the following symptoms:
(a) High absenteeism;
(b) High staff turnover rates;
(c) Complaints about management?
If so, then these symptoms are a sign of low levels of engagement. However, contrary to common belief, the problem may not lie with your disengaged employee. I’ll explain why.
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