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How to Be a More Inclusive Leader 0
- Leadership
- August 21, 2024
As the recent Gallup highlights many employees struggling with isolation and loneliness on the job. Overall, Gallup found 20% of working men and women saying they felt lonely “a lot of the day” at work the previous day. That number ticked slightly upward among workers younger than 35, with 22% of employees in that age
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Improve Engagement With One Meaningful Conversation Weekly 0
- Engagement, Leadership
- August 19, 2024
Employees in the U.S. continue to feel detached from work, according to research firm Gallup’s most recent employee engagement survey. Only 33 percent of employees were engaged, while 16 percent of workers reported being actively disengaged according to the survey. Gallup presents an insightful solution. “A manager having one meaningful conversation per week with each
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Lean Quote: Importance of Having Employees Who Love Their Job 0
- Lean Quote
- August 16, 2024
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Meet-up: 5 Questions from Within the Lean Community With Bruce Hamilton 0
- Meet-up
- August 14, 2024
In May 2024 A Lean Journey Blog turned 15 and as I look back on how I got started and who influenced my journey I wanted to revisit a previous series I started in 2012 called the Meet-up. One of the things I am so fond of in the Lean community is the general wiliness
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