What is the future of “work” after COVID? How have we changed during the pandemic, and which of these changes are likely to stay? We have learned so much about work this past year, and many employees and organizations feel that things should not go back to the way they were. Validating that we are just as productive working from home, what will happen to the “office”? Will workers come in periodically, and if so, what does this mean to the commercial real estate industry? T

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Improving your team, and the work it accomplishes, means identifying and establishing your outcome. What is your team trying to improve? Has your team identified the “what” by establishing specific goals, defining efficient collaborative processes, and setting the team up for success through leveraging team talents? Read 10 of Gallup’s articles on teamwork to understand the benefits of teamwork, learn to improve teamwork, and build high-performing teams. How to improve Teamw

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HUMANOCRACY: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them. Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini. (2020, Kindle Edition) Gary Hamel, one of the world's most influential experts on business strategy, along with longstanding colleague, Michele Zanini, have been researching for over a decade how bureaucracies can be dismantled and replaced with something better. In their co-authored book, Humanocracy, Hamel and Zanini convincingly make the case that, like all technologies,

Research has shown that organizations applying specific, informal, and emotional approaches to influencing behavior are significantly more likely to experience change that lasts. What people do matters more than what they say or believe. To obtain more positive influences from your cultural situation, begin working on changing the most critical behaviors, and the mind-sets will follow. The research of Katzenbach, Oelschlegel, and Thomas reveals that adopting the 10 Principles

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