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Winning With Engaged Teams | LinkedIn - 0 views

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engagement teams employee engagement culture

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 10 Feb 14
     
    Andreas von der Heydt February 2, 2014 Shared by Michelle Bavester There was a strong agreement that in most organizations - and although people spend a substantial part of their lives working - a vast majority of teams and employees are not engaged at all. And as a result such organizations do not perform at their best. Let me share with you the main points we touched upon . . .
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Mastering Team-Based Decision Making | LinkedIn - 1 views

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decision making teams

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 17 Apr 14
     
    Author: Lex Sisney Date: April 17, 2014 Shared by: Andee Weinfurter, MSLOC student In a previous post I shared that every business has mass, which is a measure of its resistance to change. The challenge in getting an organization to change direction is the fact that its mass isn't neatly self-contained. Rather, it's scattered throughout its people, systems, structures, and processes - and the collective inertia causes resistance to change. In order to get the organization to execute on its strategy, you've got to get the mass contained and headed in one direction.
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What Improv Can Teach Your Team About Creativity And Collaboration | Fast Company | Bus... - 0 views

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innovation improv collaboration leadership

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 19 Dec 13
     
    By Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard Shared by Bree Groff, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @BreeABerman
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When Your Team Reverts to the Old Strategy - Amy Gallo - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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strategic change leadership

shared by MSLOC Northwestern University on 03 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 03 Apr 14
     
    Author: Amy Gallo August 10, 2010 Shared by: Sean Radford, MSLOC Student
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How to Build a Culture That Embraces Feedback | Inc.com - 1 views

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feedback; talent management performance culture

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 31 Mar 14
     
    Author: Dan Levy March 27, 2014 Shared by Brynn Harrington Here are some of the tips I've been using over the last decade to gather more feedback and to build a culture of feedback within my teams.
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You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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cognition attention multi-tasking learning

shared by Kimberly Scott on 20 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Last year he and a team of colleagues reported the results of a National Science Foundation-backed experiment that combined meditation with multitasking. The subjects were human-resource managers. Some got meditation training, and others did not. They were then asked to complete tasks, such as scheduling a meeting, amid a barrage of interruptions from e-mail, instant messages, phone calls, and knocks on the door.
  • The results: Those who had received meditation training were less fragmented in their work, switching tasks less frequently and spending more time on each one. They also showed less stress and better memory. The
  • Ulrich Mayr, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, studies multitasking. When Stanford convened a conference on that subject in 2009, he emphasized that "multitasking is actually rapid task switching, since the human brain does just one thing at a time."
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  • To understand the ideas, students need to link them to things they already know, creating a network of associations that Mr. Mayr describes as "a rich knowledge structure." That happens only if they pay attention and think about the lesson.
  • All content in long-term memory is represented in two ways: "as a sense of familiarity on the one hand, and whether or not you truly understand it."
  • People often mistake familiarity for understanding. They open the textbook after getting home from a lecture, and they recognize the material. They think: I get this. Then they take a test—and bomb it.
  • Mr. Nass, of Stanford, has found that people who chronically multitask are less able to focus and worse at managing working memory. They're also worse at switching between tasks.
  • Supertaskers"—a tiny sliver of humanity who multitask with ease—as well as a report from that 2009 multitasking seminar at Stanford.
  • Information and Contemplation: a Reading List A selection of readings from a course taught by David M. Levy at the University of Washington
  • Kimberly Scott on 20 Jan 14
     
    Using meditation in the classroom to improve focus. Summarizes research on multi-tasking with technology. Includes reading recommendations.
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