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Published August 8, 2023 in Brain Circuits ⢠2 min read
Morale is critical to ensuring smooth operations within any organization. When morale is low, companies are at risk of losing talent, people making costly mistakes, and customer service suffering. The higher you rise in an organization, the more difficult it can become to see when morale problems are becoming pervasive. Here are some ways you can pay attention:
In the longer-term, morale can be reflected in individual mental health. Often, companies are concerned when employees express feeling âburnt outâ and are keen to learn how to address it. To do so, however, is to confront the symptoms rather than the cause. It is more important to focus on the individual and collective morale of an organization and the elements that go into generating that morale than it is to confront the consequences of a lack of attention to those elements day to day.
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Lessons from military leadership: the importance of morale by Francesca Giulia Mereu and Stephen KilpatrickÂ
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