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What Really Matters?
 What Really Matters? 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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Time is our most important resource. It is finite and non-renewable. Being intentional about how we spend it is, perhaps, one of the most important things we can learn to do if we want a happy, fulfilling life.

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Why Work Still Sucks (And Organizational Change Is SLOW)
 Why Work Still Sucks (And Organizational Change Is SLOW) 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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Leaders struggle with breaking the system that gives them power, even when they know the system is broken.

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feedback, feedforward
Moving From Feedback To Feedforward
 Moving From Feedback To Feedforward 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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How can you switch from a feedback approach with your team to a feedforward approach that can improve future results? Here are four steps to take!

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Want To Improve Performance Or Engagement At Work? Check Your Assumptions.
 Want To Improve Performance Or Engagement At Work? Check Your Assumptions. 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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Our assumptions about people profoundly impact our behavior and how we show up in our work. The place where I have seen this most frequently over the years is in how we confront performance or behavioral issues as managers.

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Why Leadership Buy-In For Employee Engagement And Inclusion Is Elusive
 Why Leadership Buy-In For Employee Engagement And Inclusion Is Elusive 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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The work we do is righteous work. But we must let go of our need for leaders to embrace it at face value. What can we do instead? Keep reading!

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A Hard Truth about Employee Engagement
 A Hard Truth about Employee Engagement 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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There was a point in my career, probably 18 or 20 years or so ago, that I would have argued vehemently that creating a workplace culture that engages employees was vital to sustaining a profitable business. I believed in my heart that it was an imperative. At the time, I was an HR leader working…

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employee engagement definition
What Is Employee Engagement? It’s Time to Demand Better Answers
 What Is Employee Engagement? It’s Time to Demand Better Answers 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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One of the things that makes me crazy about the work of employee engagement is the sloppiness we allow around how we define and approach it. As I talk to leaders within organizations who are currently spending enormous sums of money on measuring and attempting to improve engagement, they struggle with basic questions like “How…

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Engaging Employees from Inside Bad HR Processes
 Engaging Employees from Inside Bad HR Processes 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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When I speak to people about treating work as a relationship with employees rather than a contract, there’s a question I am commonly asked. It typically sounds something like this: “How do you make work feel like a relationship when you are trapped inside a bureacratic organization with archaic processes?” This question is a great…

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Soft Skills are Hard. We need to stop calling them soft. #Workhuman
 Soft Skills are Hard. We need to stop calling them soft. #Workhuman 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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I’m just back from spending four epic days in Nashville at my favorite conference event of the year, Workhuman. As is always the case after this event, I’ve got a lot of ideas swirling in my head from the great content and conversations. Sidenote: I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again.…

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An Unexpected Reminder of the Power in Genuine Appreciation
 An Unexpected Reminder of the Power in Genuine Appreciation 1024 512 Jason Lauritsen
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This week, while staying in Chicago for work, I ventured out to find a nearby sports bar to watch a basketball game and grab some dinner. In fairness, this wasn’t just any basketball game. I was planning to watch my beloved Duke Blue Devils play. And, I was appropriately dressed in Duke gear to show…

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