Our reader poll today asks: What best describes your organization’s approach to taking risks?

• We’re risk-seeking – 11%
• We’re risk-tolerant – 50%
  
• We’re risk-avoidant – 34%
• We refuse to take risks – 5%

More risk than not. Over 60% of you report your organizations are risk tolerant or risk seeking.

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As you prepare to execute your decisions, think through your communication plan, identify the sources of risk and how you’re going to mitigate them, and think through how you’re going to measure and adjust.

Once a decision has been made, it must be communicated, executed, and then you have to measure it. Additionally, you need to adjust once you get new information.

Communicating

In terms of communication, be sure to articulate what the decision was, who made the decision, and why the decision was made.

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Individuals will always have different levels of hesitancy when it comes to change. Learn how to address skepticism in a way that makes change easier for everyone at your organization.

Today’s post is by Dr. Sarah Stebbins, author of From Fire to Water: Moving Through Change: Six Elements for Personal Resiliency.

A silly question, perhaps, but an important one to answer when experiencing or initiating a change.

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Our reader poll today asks: How well does your organization support people who have been injured at work?

• Extremely well – 38%
• Very well – 37%
• Well – 11%
• Not very well – 8%
• Poorly – 6%

Taking care of people.

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Before you move forward and take that final action, make sure you pause, spend some time considering these questions, and document your answers so you can be sure to make the best decision possible.

As you get ready to make a decision and take action, there are some critical questions you need to ask yourself before you move forward. Take the time to think this stuff through. As you get ready to move forward, ask yourself:

1. How big is this decision?

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Prolonged, chronic stress often causes relative stupidity. Learn more about the connection between stress and cognitive performance.

Today’s post is by Nicole Lipkin, author of What Keeps Leaders Up at Night.

I wrote my most recent book, What Keeps Leaders Up At Night, on a barstool at my kitchen counter. The day I started chapter 3, a chapter about stress, my neighbor started construction on her house.

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