Beth Fredeen, Author at Leadership Development Consultants

Excellence is an attitude– what the business world can learn from athletes

Excellence is an attitude– what the business world can learn from athletes There are lots of things the business world can take away from the minds of great athletes. Famous athletes such as Michael Jordan, David Beckham, Anna Kournikova and many more, created successful enterprises when they retired from professional sports. They all share […]

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Employee Engagement Trends

Employee Engagement / Beth Fredeen

What is Employee Engagement? An engagement trend in the workplace can change in the blink of an eye. What works for your team today might not work next week or even tomorrow! Team leaders need to think forward and ensure they are updated on the latest employee engagement strategies. Employee engagement is the emotional connection

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Meetings, the Heart of Organizational Health

Communication, Leadership, Meetings, Organizational Health / Beth Fredeen

How often do you find your team dragging their feet to meetings? Are they reluctant to participate? Meetings are more important to organizational health than team leaders may realize. A meeting room is where decisions are made, collaboration occurs, and problems are solved. Everything related to organizational health occurs here. The only issue is most

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How to improve employee well-being

Employee Well-Being, Organizational Health / Beth Fredeen

Employee Well-Being must be Top-of-Mind Employee well-being is top of mind on many leaders’ brains in today’s world. Over the past year it has become a hot topic. Now more than ever it is important to focus on the well-being of your team members. Their well-being doesn’t mean maximizing private healthcare benefits, health spending accounts,

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Experiential learning benefits for a post-covid offsite team retreat

Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Team Building / Beth Fredeen

Benefits of a post-covid experiential learning offsite team retreat We’ve all participated in team bonding events! Whether it was an escape room, a dinner, or a workshop in the office. But did you know team building, if done right, is a very different experience when facilitated with experiential learning as the goal. What if there

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A leader’s guide to improving employee retention

Employee Retention / Beth Fredeen

Turning Employee Resignation into Employee Retention During the pandemic and while working from home, employees had lots of time to think. But what you might not realize, is the considerable number of people thinking about moving on to another position somewhere else. As a leader it is going to be key for you to consider

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Bringing workplace value proposition to life

Collaboration, Connection, Culture / Beth Fredeen

Create your workplace value proposition with four big C’s As more teams head back into the office for the first time in over a year, it can be challenging to have the motivation to leave the comfort of remote work. This is why it is crucial to base your workplace value proposition on the four

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Reentering the Workplace – Mourn the Loss – That’s OK

Hybrid Teams, Leadership / Beth Fredeen

Transition Tips for Leaders Reentering the Workplace and Facing the Future of Work After remote work took over a year ago, many teams have gotten used to the flexibility and freedom that comes from working remotely. However, as more offices open back up, reentering the workplace with an in-person work structure is becoming a reality.

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Taking Breaks Beneficial for Remote Teams

Hybrid Teams, Workplace Burnout / Beth Fredeen

Why Taking Breaks is beneficial for your remote team Taking breaks, sound foreign? For the past year, almost all teams have been working from home. Striving to do your best work from home is admirable but the line between work-life balance has been blurred. When the worlds of work and home overlap, it can be

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Hybrid Work Teams – The New Reality

Hybrid Teams / Beth Fredeen

Adjusting to Hybrid Work Hybrid work is now real. The way teams work has completely changed over the past year. Offices were forced to shut down and working from home became the new normal. People had to reinvent their daily routines. We turned to technology and shifted to working digitally. However, there might be a

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