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Employee Recognition and What Makes It WorkThe key to recognizing employees is to do it in a way that reinforces the actions and behaviors you most want to see people repeat. Providing ongoing recognition can go a long way toward keeping employees' morale up and getting the work results you want. Naomi Karten has some tips on doing it right. | 
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How to Sell Your Ideas: Prepare for SuccessWhether the "product" is a tangible object, a concept, or a proposal, everyone needs to know how to make a sale. Naomi Karten gives you some resources to examine and some questions to ask yourself before you attempt to sell so that you can best prepare for success. |
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Dare to Delegate, Then Reap the RewardsSome managers just don’t realize when they should be delegating tasks or projects. While delegation is one of the underdeveloped management capabilities, very few companies offer training in how to do it. Naomi Karten gives warning signs you're taking on too much and tips on improving delegation. |
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Embrace the Cubicle: Open-Plan Offices Make You Less Productive Studies suggest that workers in open-plan offices actually tend to be less productive, unhappier, and even unhealthier than people who work confined to their own personal spaces. Even if you hate your cubicle, it turns out it probably gives you fewer distractions, less stress, and reduced sick days. |
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Learning to Tolerate Working for a Bossy BossNot every boss is bossy. But some are. And it’s no fun working for one. If your bossy boss piles on an unreasonable workload, shouts down suggestions, makes all decisions unilaterally, and issues orders and directives with no hint of caring about employees, Naomi Karten has some tips for you. |
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Teamwork and Creativity: Making Them Work TogetherTo work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative. The relationship between teamwork and creativity is complicated, and by understanding it you can be more effective as a team. | 
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Acknowledging Work Effort Can Increase Productivity and MotivationSteve Berczuk writes on the importance of acknowledgement in making people feel good about work. Simply acknowledging someone’s effort can lead to increased engagement and motivation—and result in more productivity. |
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How to Fire an Employee RespectfullyIf you’ve ever been laid off, downsized, dismissed, let go, or any of the other fifty or more euphemisms for “fired,” you know how gut-wrenching it can be. And doing the firing is not without its own trauma. Naomi Karten gives some advice on how to fire an employee as respectfully as possible. |
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