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Why Being More Assertive Isn’t Always the Best Manager Approach
Assertiveness. In many companies and in the business world, it’s thought of as the hallmark of great leadership. Assertiveness means driving, pushing and aggressively pursuing goals. It’s go-get-‘em all the time. Unfortunately, this isn’t really the case. Assertiveness, like every other behavioral tendency falls on a spectrum. And not every leader or manager needs to…
إقرأ المزيدWant Creativity? Start by Using Your Social Brain.
People power organizations. This isn’t a provocative statement or anything new. Whether a few in a cramped start-up office or a few hundred-thousand around the world, it’s the people behind the initiatives, brands and companies that advance things forward. So if this is so obvious, why do companies continually have the same issues related to…
إقرأ المزيدBuilding a Better Corporate Culture
I figure you spend more time at the office than you do anywhere else in the world. That may be a scary thought, and probably slightly hyperbolic, but you certainly spend thousands and thousands of hours in the same space every year. This environment and routine will become stale after certain amounts of time, especially…
إقرأ المزيدWhy Expressiveness is Critical in Communication Management
Communication management is the biggest challenge managers in your organization face. It’s probably not tied to subject matter expertise. Research shows it’s more likely the human element of management—how a manager motivates, communicates and responds to conflict, change and stress. PWC highlights that managers need to work together with organizational leadership to stoke and keep…
إقرأ المزيدWhy Collaboration is All About Organization and Structure
Organizing your people so that everyone is on the same track and working together toward a particular goal is crucial to business success. It’s building consensus. Teamwork. Collaboration. But, it isn’t just about social, relational thinking and leadership. Notice the first word of this blog—Organizing. Sometimes, the most collaborative element of work has to come…
إقرأ المزيدInnovating Through Analytics
Innovation is not limited to big-picture and world-changing conceptual ideas. The process of innovating can come from all parts of the brain and prove to be extremely valuable. You can innovate through the Analytical part of your brain through keen data analysis. Data is one of the most vital resources businesses have at their disposal. It…
إقرأ المزيدBuilding Great Teams by Utilizing Cognitive Diversity
I want to delve more deeply into the concept of cognitive diversity and specifically how a Whole Emergenetics team (WEteam) could have solved one of the many challenges that Goldman’s teams faced. Let’s revisit one of their exercises—teams were given a list of 8 businesses, a circuit board, 8 wires, and thermo-reactive paper in a…
إقرأ المزيدAn In-Depth Look at Team Building at Goldman Sachs
Last fall, investment-banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs took team building to a different stratosphere. Their inaugural Midnight Madness Scavenger Hunt Team Building Activity gave 180 of the brightest minds in finance a new way to work together. Teams assembled at 8pm at a dock along the East River in Manhattan in what would be the start…
إقرأ المزيدLead Employee Creativity Through Conceptual Thinking
You’ve hired the smartest, most capable employees you can find for your organization. Are you truly maximizing the value they can bring to you through their creativity? We are entering the conceptual age, where new ideas and innovation are just as critical as data and information. Everyone has the ability to think Conceptually—it’s about finding…
إقرأ المزيدWhat Does My Team Need?
Harvard Business Review is one of my main sources of information when it comes to keeping in touch with organisational trends, and recently they were promoting a new book “HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across”. It wasn’t the book that caught my attention but the extract from it headlined “4 Things Every Team Needs”.…
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