Articles: Management
Receiving Feedback Is Threatening: Our Social Threat Response
Key Learning Points: Receiving feedback is threatening and can trigger our brains threat responses. Though we want to learn [...]
Power Distance – How do people behave in proximity to power?
Key Learning Points: Power Distance is a concept used to describe and explain how people with lower levels of [...]
Personality and Character Ethic In The World of Work
Key Learning Points: Personality and Character Ethic is a concept well explained by Stephen Covey. Our personalities are what [...]
Otto Scharmer’s 4 Levels of Listening: Be a Better Listener
Key Learning Points: Otto Scharmer's 4 Levels of Listening are a simple, positive way to help you get better [...]
Organizational Development: An Easy Introduction
Key Learning Points: Organizational Development is a planned effort to change the culture, behaviors, ways of working and other [...]
Organizational Culture In The World Of Work
Key Learning Points: Organizational Culture is the term used in the world of work to describe what it feels [...]
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a pyramid of the needs that motivate people. Individuals most basic [...]
Locke and Latham’s Goal Setting Theory: Set Better Goals
Key Learning Points: Locke and Latham's goal setting theory details five key principles that support the creation of effective [...]
Lewin’s Change Model: Simple Introduction
Key Learning Points: Kurt Lewin’s change model has three stages: unfreeze (prepare a group to change), change (transition to [...]
Lewin’s Behavior Equation: A Simple Model Of Human Behavior
Key Learning Points: Kurt Lewin’s behavior equation is “B = f(P, E)”. It states that an individual’s behavior (B) [...]
Leading Through The Change Curve In The World Of Work
Key Learning Points: Leading through the change curve requires leaders to respond appropriately at each stage, broadly progressing from [...]
Huddles or Stand up Meetings: A Simple Introduction
Key Learning Points: Huddles or stand up meetings are short, sharp, focused, daily team meetings. They involve the whole [...]
How to lead Organizational Change: John Kotter’s 8-step change model
Key Learning Points: John Kotter’s 8-step change model is: create urgency, build a guiding coalition, form a strategic vision, [...]
Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory of Motivation: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: Herzberg’s two factor model says that basic factors like safety and salary need to be met [...]
French and Raven’s Forms of Power: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: French and Raven's Forms of Power describes six sources of leadership power: Coercive, Reward, Legitimate, Expert, [...]
Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing: How Teams Grow
Key Learning Points: Bruce Tuckman’s stages of group development model is also known as "forming, storming, norming and performing" [...]
Flow – Moments of Optimal Experience
Key Learning Points: Flow is the term used by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe moments of heightened focus and [...]
Feeling Understood – A Starting Point for Connection
Key Learning Points: The sense of feeling understood by other people can be very powerful, and can be a [...]
Feedback In The World of Work
Key Learning Points: Feedback in the world of work is information provided to someone about their performance or the [...]
Employee Experience: What Is It And Does It Matter?
Key Learning Points: Employee experience (EX) is the sum of activities, perks, technologies, relationships and development opportunities an employee [...]
Employee Engagement In The World Of Work
Employee Engagement describes the relationship that employees have with their work and the organizations they work for. Engaged employees [...]
Emotions at Work: A World of Work Introduction
Key Learning Points: Our emotions at work are essential to our well-being and effectiveness, yet they also have the [...]
Emotional Intelligence: The 5 Domains
Key Learning Points: The five domains of emotional intelligence are: recognizing and understanding your own emotions, managing your own [...]
Edgar Schein’s Organizational Culture Triangle: A Simple Summary
Key Learning Points: Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture Triangle details three layers of organizational cultures: Artifacts, Espoused Values and Underlying [...]