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Employee wellness is a matter of life or death

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates in the United States have shown significant fluctuations over the past two decades. Between 2000 and 2018, the national suicide rate increased by 37%, reaching a peak of 14.2 deaths per 100,000 people, the highest rate since World War II. Following a slight decline between 2018 and 2020, rates returned to their peak in 2022.

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The secret to keeping employees through the great resignation

A record-breaking 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August. This number translates to 2.9 percent of the workforce, the highest ever rate of people voluntarily quitting, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The mass exodus began in April 2021 when 4 million Americans left their jobs, and it has since been coined The Great Resignation.

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The power of humanity: Three workplace lessons from the Tokyo 2020 olympic games

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was a 17-day global sporting event like none the world has ever seen. Every Olympics has unique characteristics and defining moments, and this year’s will be remembered forever as the COVID-19 Games. After a delay from 2020 to 2021, Tokyo hosted the first international gathering of such magnitude since the start of the pandemic, and athletes competed without the typical energy and support from onsite spectators.

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Rising from the ashes: The grit and grace of the paralympians

“When you fail, you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. Life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.” – Richard Whitehead, Team Great Britain Paralympic marathoner

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Leading teams and yourself through a crisis

As business owners none of us are new to navigating uncertainty, yet the current social landscape is unprecedented, at least for our generation, and we find ourselves caught in a whirlwind of global proportion. Certainty for financial stability is low, anxiety levels are high, and fear is having a field day across industries, countries and generations.

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When you can’t move the mountain, do these 3 things

We would all love to be mountain-movers. Let’s face it…struggling to push that pile (but winning) as the “Chariots of Fire” encore plays in the background, it’s every manager’s dream. But it doesn’t happen that way in reality. In reality, we’re the ground force, flattening mole hills along the way so the bigger guns can roll through. And these days, those mole hills seem like Everest.

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