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Lance's Lot—The Cost of Fraud
Every organization whether in sports, business, academia, or government has rules. But they're enforced retroactively, after the damage is done. We need to think more about the costs of our actions before we do them and temper our desire to win with integrity.
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When HR and Legal Worlds Collide
Organizations work best when legal and human resource professionals work together. That's how to prevent the legal and HR worlds from colliding.
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New Rules for New Communications
We can't follow these all the time, but there's no better time to try to change habits than at the start of 2013.
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An Open Letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Regarding Joint Chiefs of Staff Ethics Training
I'm willing to bet that the content of the courses is not the problem. The challenge is to determine what more the military can do through the programs' design and subsequent reinforcement to make sure that key lessons are absorbed, retained, applied and sustained by senior and flag officers.
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After Kubasik and Petraeus Scandals, Training Must Start at the Top
First, Christopher Kubasik, who was in line to become Lockheed Martin's CEO, resigned his position as a result of having a "close personal relationship" with a subordinate.
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Revisiting Penn State: If There's a Problem, Call, Text, Email or See Me
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced for acts of sexual abuse committed against young boys. Likely, he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Get Millennials Out of Their Comfort Zone When It Comes to Training
Letting students determine what delivery systems work best for them when there may be other more effective ways for them to master critical knowledge and applications is an abdication of leadership responsibility.
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Political Chatter in the Workplace? It's Possible to Be Civil
It's time to recognize that talking about politics can build workplace relationships, and mutual understanding.
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Talking Power, Safety and Bullying
Here's a quick recommendation. Virtually every organization includes “respect,” stated one way or the other, as a core value.
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Fly Fishing and Workplace Learning
What does fly fishing have to do with workplace learning, particularly on topics where leadership skill and communication are involved? Everything.
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My German Shepherd, Memphis, and Sustaining What We Learn
Teaching humans isn't usually as straightforward as teaching dogs. But the goals are the same.
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Sustaining Behavioral Change at Work: Technology Meets On-the-Job Leading and Teaching
How do we sustain what we teach? That’s the most frequent question I hear when it comes to workplace learning on civility, inclusion and compliance.
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Rapid Culture Change Is Possible
Most management books will tell you that culture change is extremely difficult and takes a long time. While that is often true, I know firsthand that culture can change almost overnight.
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Lessons From a 40-Year Reunion: What We Learn and Apply
Last weekend I attended my 40th reunion of the Hamilton College Class of 1972. I walked the hilltop campus with my closest friends, visited old dorms and classrooms and caught up with classmates I hadn't seen in many years.
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Learning Needs to Be Simple Enough to Make It Stick
In the workplace, when we try to teach concepts like listening to concerns, non-retaliation or other compliance topics, we often don't match how we teach to how we learn.
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Legality, Civility, Productivity
Civility is critical. However, for several reasons, it is a mistake if we isolate civility, viewing it as being wholly separate and distinct, from mandated initiatives dealing with equal employment opportunity issues.
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Should You Have An Attention Management Strategy?
Every company today is fighting to attract and retain talent. But there’s another, overlooked, talent war that could yield greater benefits if won and greater harm if lost.
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Fighting Workplace Spam—Our Own
They pop in your inbox. You get more of them a day than you can absorb and remember.
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Conquering Fear and Workplace Retaliation
Let's take a step back and focus on the fear that triggers retaliation—the fear the causes leaders at all levels, from direct supervisory personnel to senior managers, to take action against an employee who raises a concern.
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Companies Can't Win with ‘Air in the Chair'
In today's fast-paced, challenging world, if you're not doing everything possible to avoid having air in your chairs, then you are ceding the game to your competitors rather than having people who can help your organization grow, thrive and head off disasters.
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Selling Women's Shoes—a Guide to Culture Change at Work
You can't bring secret shoppers into your workplace to test how well managers and supervisors are following the rules—at least not unless you want to completely destroy workplace relationships.
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Community Learning Can Be the Best Instructor at Work
For eons, we've learned many of our most important lessons from friends, family and peers. When we're trying to get people to act in a certain way in line with basic do's and don'ts of workplace conduct, lectures and raw information won't be effective.
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Teach Trust First
Leaders increasingly lack the skills needed to recognize and address employee discontent, which allows decisions and actions to appear unfair or potentially illegal even when they may not be.
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Curbing Wasteful Compliance Training
I’m writing this blog as I sit in a cavernous auditorium with 14 other Georgia attorneys. The lawyer in front of me is doing a crossword puzzle; the lawyer to his left is scanning her Kindle Fire. Several are sending emails; one’s reading a crime novel, another, a newspaper.
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Going Nuclear—More Safe Power for Georgia's People
Within the week, I read two headlines with strikingly similar themes. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of the first two U.S. nuclear power plants in 30 years. Second, Roger Boisjoly's death was announced.
