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How to Build a More Productive Team

Being busy is one thing. Getting good work done is quite another. It’s up to you to make sure your team is working well together and accomplishing something. Here’s how to build a team that doesn’t just stay busy; it gets things done. 

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Managing Constructive Conflict in the Workplace

Workplace conflict, well-managed, can be good for your team and your company. The question is, how to encourage it? How to manage it? 

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“Victory” Against Excessive Emotional Distress Damages?

In April 2021, the employer world gasped when a Seattle jury awarded a fired IBM manager $11 million in damages. IBM recently received some good news: The Ninth Circuit just overturned the $6 million emotional distress verdict as excessive in Kingston v. International Business Machines Corp. Unfortunately, they upheld the $5 million verdict in economic damages, which was based, in part, on speculation. This decision demonstrates the unpredictability of economic damages and should be viewed as a warning to Washington’s employers. As stated in Judge Ikuta’s dissent: “Can an employer be held liable for terminating an employee because of the employee’s protected activities if the employer did not know about those activities? Apparently yes, according to the majority.” 

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