Culture After Chaos Podcast
Shawn joins Kristin Gupta, host of Authentic Leadership and Defining Leaders, for a conversation about upholding organizational culture after chaos.
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How to Build Your Employer Brand
Defining Employer Brand How is improving your workplace culture linked to employer brand? Let’s explore… Tide. Gerber. Mattel. Nike. Dunkin’. When you think of any brand, different words, images and feelings that the brand evokes come to mind. As a business leader, you want consumers to think of your product…
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Well-Being Boss or Well-Being Leader?
When it comes to wellbeing in the workplace, are you more of a “boss” or a “leader”? Maybe you’ve seen an illustration like the one we’ve chosen for this blog. The leader is out in front, contributing to the mission and showing everyone how to pull the rope, but the…
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How to Build a Culture of Well-Being
Establishing healthy well-being practices is at the core of improving workplace culture. How? Well-being goes beyond movement and it’s bigger than your benefits or total rewards package, though having philosophies and tactics in both of those areas may likely help to elevate your organization. Well-being is – and must be…
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What does a Culture of Well-Being Look Like?
At humanworks, we look at workplace culture through a lens of eight beliefs – We call them “The 8,” and each of them impacts the way an organization operates around well-being. While The 8 haven’t changed in the last year, our workplaces have and so have our employees. This…
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Elevate Your Performance Review Process
My Performance Review: I want to be a “5.” My leader was about to give me my annual performance review. Being a manager myself, I knew the drill. Each of the boxes my leader had filled out about me, I had already filled out for the members of my own…
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Being Human in Job Transitions
The Impact of Job Transitions If starting a new job is one of life’s most stressful events, being transitioned out due to the economic impact of COVID is even higher on that list. Although aware of today’s economy, people are still shocked when they receive the news about the impact…
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Bursting Bubbles: Diversity, Inclusion and the Talent Canvas
Responding to Injustice, Celebrating Diversity As the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum in 2020, leaders across every industry and organization type had a choice to make in the moment and to continue making indefinitely: How would they respond to racial injustice? How would they talk to employees? How would…
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humanworks Gratitude Series
humanworks operates with the principle of gratitude as a foundation year-round. We believe it’s a core part of each individual’s compass – both at work and in life outside of work. This year, as we prepared for Thanksgiving, each member of the team created a short video with a new…
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It’s Time to Author Your Personal Core Values
Writing core values brings clarity, which is what most of us need more of in 2020. A leader I used to work with would often say, “clarity gives energy.” Perhaps that explains why so many people are feeling exhausted – 2020 has created more questions than answers. It’s difficult to…
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