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Diversity and Harassment Training Video July Sale

$100 off! (Or, get 3 Harassment Training Video/DVDs for the price of 2) Use code: ATS100 or ATS3for2 at checkout. ( Cannot be combined with industry discounts.) Stretch your training budget with our...

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Mentoring Requires More Than Good Intention

by Lois Zachary It takes time and work. It requires knowledge, competency, skill and a planned strategy. Mentors and mentees who come to mentoring prepared, and know what to expect, report more...

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Two Signals that Create the Highest Trust

by Judith E. Glaser Most people choose their friends and colleagues based on three principles that even they may not be aware of. That’s according to social science research conducted by Brian Uzzi,...

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“I want to change …my arrogance, my control, and my lack of trust.”

by Judith E. Glaser When Bayer, a $7 billion multinational pharmaceutical company, acquired a smaller $300 million diagnostic company, Rolf Classon the CEO, chose to call it a “merger.” Power-with...

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Create and Sustain Change by Creating Trust through Candor

By Judith E. Glaser Here are 5 ways to elevate every day – and experience a release in the capacity to create and sustain change, growth and transformation: By setting the context for candor throughout...

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Shift Your Thinking to Optimism in the Face of Fear

By Judith E. Glaser Are Your I-Centric Habit Patterns Getting the Best of You? We live in a world of moving targets. Once we get into routines we feel comfortable, and from comfort comes confidence....

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Seven Negative Patterns that Derail Your Business

by Judith E. Glaser As you read the following seven I-centric habit patterns, identify ones that do not serve your organization and see them as opportunities to develop WE-centric patterns. Monitor...

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Grabbing Customers and Engaging from “Hello”

By Judith E. Glaser Fully engaged customers are more loyal and profitable. A fully engaged customer represents a 23 percent premium in terms of share of wallet, profitability, revenue, and relationship...

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[New Videos] on What Your Employees Really Think of You

Ears burning? Don’t care? Or, you might not even know how they feel because they’re hiding it from you. But, when they walk out the door or slack off because they’re mad or discouraged, it starts to...

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Why Should Managers and Leaders Celebrate More?

by Judith E. Glaser Great leaders identify, measure, recognize, and reward meaningful efforts and achievements—and celebrate often with the people involved. Why should managers and leaders celebrate...

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Five Ways Leaders Can Boost Employee Engagement

by Judith E. Glaser The key is to use your conversational intelligence (C-IQ)—your capacity to connect—to recognize social and psychological needs and translate this awareness into conversations that...

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How to Drive Self-Expression to Innovate

by Judith E. Glaser I have yet to meet an executive, who joins a company to be ‘minimized,’ marginalized or to be intentionally held back from making a contribution. We join a company to make a...

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Turn Challenging Conversations Into Trusting Relationships at Work

by Judith E. Glaser No one could believe it – Radio Shack let thousands of people go and they did it through email! Most people dislike delivering bad news in person, and will find any way to avoid it....

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How to Communicate about Unmet Expectations

by Judith E. Glaser How should a leader address customers; shareholders; the press; employees? Are there different components of the message that should be shared with one group and not another? Who...

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Five Ways to Have a Difficult Conversation That Leads to Action

by Judith E. Glaser Hiding behind email, texting or “sandwiching” tough feedback between compliments, won’t get your communication heard. Neither will “yell and tell!” Here are five ways to have those...

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Successful Failures: When We Want to Succeed but Can’t

by Craig Forman We all want to succeed. So, one of the trickiest decisions in business is knowing when to ‘pull the plug’ on a failing initiative. With so much at stake (employee careers, investor...

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Is Distrust And Fear Rampant in Corporate America?

by Judith E. Glaser Daily we see headlines that suggest we are becoming mired in distrust, at high cost to our organizations. As our trust bank accounts are depleted, we run out of currency to invest...

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Five Steps to Create Cultures of Trust

by Judith E. Glaser We are designed for connection with others, and when trust is broken we recoil and close down. Conversational Intelligence is teaching us that because we are designed to be social,...

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How to Get Your Employees Addicted to Performing Well

The Neurochemistry of Motivation By Judith E. Glaser Employee Question: I work better in environments when my superiors are supportive and give praise for a job well done, and are also understanding...

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When to Begin Anew

“If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” –Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors “Bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity...

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