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17 inspiring leadership quotes from top scientists

Insperity

> Related blog: How to build a successful employee mentoring program. “I Louis Pasteur , 1822 to 1895, French scientist who developed the food preparation process known as pasteurization. > “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”. > Related blog: How to manage stress and fear at work.

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How to create a continuous learning culture in your workplace

Insperity

Make these meetings “lunch and learns” – it’s easy to buy everyone food to bring people together, and employees appreciate the gesture. A robust mentor program is essential for passing knowledge down from more senior, experienced employees to other team members, bolstering critical skills and developing effective leaders.

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Sustainable Leadership: Incorporating Recognition into Long-term Business Strategies

Vantage Circle

A restaurant chain awards managers who cut food prices. This leads to purchasing fewer eco-friendly ingredients which are low in quality and shorter shelf life, producing greater food waste. Performance assessments that fail to include sustainability data with regular KPIs. The manager who saves the most money earns a bonus.

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What Can Workplace Design Practitioners Learn From Human Psychology?

All Work

Hierarchy of Workplace Needs Typically depicted visually in the form of a pyramid with five tiers, Maslow’s theory holds that human motivation is based on the pursuit of five different levels of needs beginning with the most basic physiological needs (food, water, safety/security, etc.)

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5 things never to say when talking to your boss about a problem

Work Life

Assuming you know the whole situation Unless you’re at the very top of the food chain in an organization, it’s unlikely that you have access to every facet of complicated situations that have led to problems. Even if you still think your actions were justified, arguing with your boss will give the impression that you’re hard to mentor.

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3 easy ways to elevate your company’s floundering mentorship program

Work Life

You’ve probably been there: the mentor signup goes out, the mentees get matched, and then. If this sounds like your corporate mentoring program, you’re not alone. While some mentors are nurturing and communicative, some are consistently unavailable or unhelpful. crickets (or worse, eye rolls, irritation).

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4 critical elements of effective remote mentorship

Work Life

With the productivity argument well debunked in numerous studies, CEOs are now citing lack of mentoring opportunities in a WFH world as a reason people must report in person.As My boss at the time realized this and was very intentional about creating a mentor relationship that would help me establish and grow my new role on campus.

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