Archive for September 2013

The Invaluable Culture of Trust

New research on building trust in organizations was just released by Interaction Associates and the Human Capital Institute. They look at how high performing organizations build trust through three key behaviors. It’s important, because they note that trust is built, not inherently present like most organizations and leaders believe. Trusting that you’ll pay me at […]

The Culture Revolution Is Not Being Televised

It’s a quiet revolution, a small step forward in how we think about organizations and the systems that we use to run them. It’s a nod to the next generation, it’s the culmination of technology disrupting the ways we work and how we think about work. There’s a subtle transformation taking shape across Corporate America. […]

Ignore The Red Blinking Light

I have had the chance this week to work with a team on change management. We focused on team norms and patterns of interaction between team members. We talked a lot about expectations and behaviors and I pushed them into some uncomfortable positions. In the end, we managed to develop a new framework for how […]

Engagement Levels … Cause For Concern?

Engagement levels continue to be a concern for most organizations. Employee engagement hasn’t rebounded to post 2008 levels yet, but we continue to ask employees to do more with less. The causes of disengagement range across a wide spectrum of issues. But the focus here today is to look at a few more closely and […]