The best way to survive an emergency weather situation is preparedness. Having a plan in place that everyone knows how to execute is key to keeping everyone safe. Make sure it is understood and practiced often.
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You Can Change Your Organizational Culture – Here’s How

In order to change your culture, it is essential to identify all the behaviors that bolster the cultural status-quo. Focus then on the culture you want to create and build a list of behaviors you can easily modify through consistent and positive reinforcement.
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Mentoring Can Be Difficult – Here’s How to Make It Work

If you were mentored before, consider what you liked about the relationship. What worked? What didn’t? What would you like to have changed about your mentorship?
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The Customer Comes Second

Delight the customer, astound the customer, serve the customer, the customer comes first — we’ve all heard it. We’ve probably even said it, after receiving poor customer service. Chances are, we’ve also probably been on the other end, the one serving a customer that is just impossible to please, and wished for a second (okay, longer than a second) that we could remind them that we’re a person, too.
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How To Tell When An Employee Hates Their Job

It isn’t difficult to identify the employees who hate their jobs. In fact, you may already have someone in mind some whose unhappiness is palpable, and maybe even disruptive to your organization. Failing to identify these team members and re-engage them can not only hurt your team, but your bottom line.
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3 Skills Rockstar Leaders Use to Engage Employees

Organizations who have refocused themselves on employee engagement have refocused themselves on meeting their employees where they are, as individuals with different and unique needs.
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Employee Retention Frenemies: Pay for Performance and Work-Life Balance

There is one consistent relationship trend among employee retention initiatives and success, and that is the effort that companies put into meeting their employees as individuals with discrete and unique needs and motivations.
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What’s Missing From Your Employee Engagement Initiatives?

Using knowledge about each and all of your employees to inform your engagement program will guarantee that your initiatives are successful, and accomplish what matters: expressing the value of your relationship with your employees, and vice versa.
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5 Reasons To Incorporate Formalized Coaching Into Your Training Program

When asked, over 80% of polled employees report that when implemented in their training program, formalized training increased their self-confidence in their ability to do their jobs. When employees feel confident along with having effective transfer of skills, you’ll absolutely see their productivity increase.
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Managing Personal and Professional Priorities

Whether we like it or not, our work life affects what we prioritize in our home life, and vice versa. The relationships between work and life influence your priorities, even if you try and keep the two worlds separate.
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