| Date: | July 28, 2015 |
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| Appearance: | Featured on Forbes.com |
| Outlet: | Forbes.com |
| Format: | Magazine |
Many thanks to Don Yaeger for featuring me in his Forbes.com article, “Vision, Value, And Voice: The Real Magnet Of Team Success.”
Create a Book to Celebrate Your Workplace Culture
#95 Create a Book to Celebrate Your Workplace Culture
Create a book of employees’ stories or articles about living out the core values of your organization. Two excellent examples are Zappos’ Culture Book and Smile Guide: Employee Perspectives on Culture, Loyalty and Profit, which is about The Beryl Companies.
You can read a review of Smile Guide by Bob Morris on ConnectionCulture.com.
This is the ninety-fifth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
Katharine Stallard and I co-authored an article that appeared in this summer’s issue of the AMA Quarterly. Read “Creating a Culture That Connects” to learn more about the remarkable connection culture practices of multinational corporation Pfizer.
| Appearance: | Michael Lee Stallard Featured in AMA Quarterly |
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| Outlet: | AMA Quarterly |
| Format: | Magazine |
I was thrilled to be interviewed for this recent article in The Economic Times entitled “Why Connecting People Matters.”
| Date: | July 17, 2015 |
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| Appearance: | Michael Lee Stallard Interview in The Economic Times |
| Outlet: | The Economic Times |
| Location: | Mumbai, India |
| Format: | Newspaper |
Secure Tools and Training
#94 Secure Tools and Training
Be sure to get people the tools and training they need to do their work well. Doing so not only helps others to grow, but also helps to reduce unnecessary stress that is harmful to performance.
This is the ninety-fourth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
3 Insights About Stress Every Leader Should Know
Who experiences greater levels of stress: non-leaders or the boss? When I ask this question while teaching workshops on leadership, nearly all the bosses in the room respond that they are the ones under greater stress. They’re wrong. Hard data makes it clear that non-leaders experience greater stress and in many instances it has a negative effect on their performance.
Fort Worth’s Bike Riding Mayor Betsy Price Steers the City
Texans know every herd follows a lead steer.
On several days throughout the year, you can see a herd in the old cow town of Fort Worth, Texas, a city of approximately 800,000 people, following its lead steer. The surprise, however, is that this herd is on bicycles and its lead steer is their mayor, Betsy Price.
Be Sensitive in How You Describe Colleagues
#93 Be Sensitive in How You Describe Colleagues
Saying this is “my employee” or “one of my people” is disconnecting. Refer to people as “a colleague” instead.
This is the ninety-third post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
Create and Implement a Connection Culture Survey
#92 Create and Implement a Connection Culture Survey
Many organizations implement employee engagement surveys and these surveys are mostly about connection. We recommend that organizations develop a customized employee engagement or connection culture survey to identify those individuals who excel in creating connection cultures so that you can celebrate them and identify their best practices to share with others. In addition, these intentional connectors may be willing to mentor others.
This is the ninety-second post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.
To Restore Connection, Say You’re Sorry
#91 Say You’re Sorry
When you make a mistake, say you’re sorry. This important step will help rebuild connection.
This is the ninety-first post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.