Michigan Ross Professor Cindy Schipani explains what companies can do to fix gender disparities in the upper ranks.
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Every organization needs strategic thinkers. In a 2013 Management Research Group survey, when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic.
What they found…give them a real problem to solve.
Source: 6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking
Long dreary corridors, impersonal waiting rooms, the smell of disinfectant — hospitals tend to be anonymous and depressing places. Even if you’re just there as a visitor, you’re bound to wonder, “How can my friend recover in such an awful place? Will I get out of here without catching an infection?”
The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, a leading eye hospital in The Netherlands, transformed its patients’ experiences by initiating creative interior designs and looking at their hospital through the patients eyes. By doing so, patient intake rose 47%.
Source: How Design Thinking Turned One Hospital into a Bright and Comforting Place
According to Kevin Kniffin, Ph.D, a professor and researcher at Cornell:
“To increase cooperation, teams could regularly play happy music during meetings or brainstorming sessions, a simpler and cost-effective alternative to traditional team-building exercises and off-site retreats. Although there’s more research to be done, music represents a potentially valuable and inexpensive channel for improving performance in environments where cooperation is prized.”
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True professional growth without personal growth is impossible. In order to truly learn to be a better leader, and to be better able to deal with power dynamics, you’ve got to figure yourself out. To start, ask yourself a few the questions contained in this article.
Source: How the Most Emotionally Intelligent CEOs Handle Their Power
After more than a decade of effort, American businesses still have not figured out how to successfully motivate, inspire – and keep – millennial workers.
According to a new and comprehensive Gallup study, employees 20 to 36 years old are the least engaged generation in the workplace by far. On top of that, 21 percent quit their jobs last year, and 60 percent say they’re floating their resumés right now!
Source: Millennials Don’t Want Fun; They Want You To Lead Better | Mark C. Crowley | Pulse | LinkedIn
I love the work of ANESE CAVANAUGH who has a regular column for Inc.com. This is another great post, powerful and thought-provoking.
Don’t let the simplicity of these 5 questions fool you, dig deep, there’s gold waiting.
Source: 5 Questions (and “Answers”) to Increase Your Leadership Confidence Now
Research has shown that as individuals, we possess a negativity bias. Simply put, our fear of losing is greater than our thrill of winning. Obviously, this negativity bias is a great deterrent to organizational change.
What can CEOs can do to overcome this?
Source: How Loss Aversion and Conformity Threaten Organizational Change
Two groups – workers and CFOs – were asked the question: “Which of these are the most important attributes in a corporate leader?” Their responses had substantive differences, but also a key similarity.
Source: The Most Important Leadership Attribute? New Study Has Clear Answer
We all get the ‘blah’s’ sometimes when it comes to work. As an employee, you have three choices: Accept what you’ve been given, change what you’ve been given, or leave what you’ve been given. We want to focus on the second option. If you feel underused and undervalued, you can do something about it.
Source: Feeling Blah About Work? Don’t Blame Your Boss, Get Engaged