The required pace of change in today’s organizations demands innovation more than ever before, yet innovation is only one of four sources of organization energy that can accelerate successful change. Organizations of all sizes share a common life cycle, comprising phases of initiation, growth, maturity and decline with possible eventual renewal and a new initiation…
Untapped energy potential lies in every organization. These three management strategies amplify productivity and engage employees: Leverage Innovation Energy Every employee has a natural predisposition towards either exploration or optimization. Companies can amplify creativity by identifying employees who are natural explorers and are energized by innovation. In recent history, psychometric models have expanded beyond communication…
What will your boss, colleague, or employee think of your brilliant new idea? As it turns out, reactions to innovation can be easily predicted using Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion. Expecting certain reactions lets us prepare for, and overcome, objections more easily. Newton’s Law of Motion Apply it at Work Move Beyond Inertia 1: An…
Use This Fun Activity to Recharge Your Energy Using Your Body’s Own Electricity! An event like the coronavirus pandemic can leave our energy levels feeling drained or disconnected. But don’t worry, what you’re experiencing is 100% normal, and we can leverage the laws of electricity to recharge our “batteries” and feel better. Quantum science proves…
Reflect for a moment on that uncomfy feeling inside. You know the one—the endless influx of emails without enough time to answer, the unhealthy habit that persists, or the pang of regret when thinking about the one who “got away”. As logic-driven, busy people, we have become quite adept at ignoring our “Inner Owl”, that…
Trying to make a tough decision and feeling off balance about it? It’s not always obvious whether an influence is for our own best interest or to get us to conform to someone else’s perspective. Sometimes, we feel compelled to listen to pressures, even if they don’t align with our values because we want to…
Yahoo and other billion-dollar companies taught us that understanding employee strengths, without consideration for their placement along the growth cycle, is like missing your front teeth. Nearly all large companies leverage some type of cognitive diversity tool. Among the most popular administered are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and DISC. During my 20+ years of big…
Things that grow… Anything that grows has a natural rhythm to its growth: starting out, forming, flourishing and eventual decline. This rhythmical pattern can be seen, again and again, in natural systems, in political systems, in human systems, in organisation systems – in all kinds of contexts. The pattern can be illustrated visually on a…