What’s the best way for a new hire to start making connections in an organization?
Research on 40,000 people shows that the most effective strategy is not broad outreach or relying on a mentor to make introductions but instead a more selective, less superficial initial approach, followed by diversification beyond the two-year mark.
Take a look at this Harvard Business Review article for more detail:
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
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
EQ lessons aplenty in this INC. article–for both sides.
Source: Emotional Intelligence 101: Why a Millennial’s Letter to Yelp’s CEO Got Her Fired
You can’t just rely on your current knowledge and expertise if you expect to keep up, let alone advance. But how do you identify the areas in which development efforts will yield the best return on your investment?Here’s a three-step process:
Imagine the colleague with whom you have a very challenging relationship, the person who makes the most innocuous conversation tense and uncomfortable. Regardless of the topic, this person opposes you and approaches things as an adversary rather than an ally. Here’s a way to push past your first reaction.
Source: A Mental Trick to Help with Challenging Conversations
While this article is about health care and innovative ways to address changing its culture, many of the ideas may be transferable to other industries and organizations:
“Much of the focus on health care redesign has been on primary care physicians, despite the fact that specialty care is responsible for the majority of health care spending. To engage specialists in care improvement, The Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization (BWPO) has launched several programs, among them the creation of departmental “Directors of Performance Improvement” (DPI) which we’ll describe here.”
Source: Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value
Regardless of which one you are.
Source: How to Be Good at Managing Both Introverts and Extroverts
