Change doesn’t have to be hard. These five TED talks help inspire new ways to get your team excited about transformation.
Source: 5 TED Talks That Prove Change Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
Change doesn’t have to be hard. These five TED talks help inspire new ways to get your team excited about transformation.
Source: 5 TED Talks That Prove Change Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
Change doesn’t have to be hard. These five TED talks help inspire new ways to get your team excited about transformation.
Source: 5 TED Talks To Get Your Team Excited About Transformation | Inc.com
What if corporate restructuring were more than a slash and burn? What if it appealed to hope instead of fear? What if it not only promised, but actually delivered, a stronger company and a better place to work?
Michigan Ross Professor Cindy Schipani explains what companies can do to fix gender disparities in the upper ranks.
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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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
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
There’s a shift under way in large organizations, one that puts design much closer to the center of the enterprise. But the shift isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about applying the principles of design to the way people work.
Source: Design Thinking Comes of Age
Leaders know that they’ll occasionally need to give tough feedback to their employees, colleagues, and clients. And yet, no matter how skilled or experienced they are at it, most would also do anything to find a way out. Here is a fine article by my colleague Debra Riegel which includes an excellent list of questions to ask yourself before you decide to undertake that difficult conversation.
“Don’t “ostrich-cize” your team: Many leaders have ostrich-cized themselves: sticking their heads in the sand in an attempt to preserve happiness.”
There is a way to handle bad news,while at the same time, reminding everyone that there is a path forward.
Source: You Can Deliver Bad News to Your Team Without Crushing Them