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Psychological safety is being significantly misunderstood, according to the May-June, 2025 edition of the Harvard Business Review. Academics Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J Kerrissey, have identified six misconceptions about psychological safety that that they say are leading organizations astray.…
Read More Is psychological safety in trouble at your organization?
I know several CEOs who want to always hire the smartest person they could find for leadership roles. Unfortunately, they are making costly mistakes. Intellectual intelligence is only one of several factors for recruiters and hiring managers to consider when…
Read More What is better than intelligence for job performance?
If you are feeling stressed at work, you are not alone. According to Headspace’ sixth annual Workforce State of Mind report (published in 2024), 86 percent of workers have experienced moderate, high, or extreme stress in the past year. For…
Read More The biggest cause of employee stress? A toxic workplace
Gallup reports that its global employee engagement measures have fallen during the last two years, after rising for all of the previous 12 years, except in 2020, during COVID-19. In 2024, it fell by two percentage points. Gallup estimates that…
Read More For greater success, pay attention to your culture scores
Our emotions are being significantly affected by the economy. It is currently facing significant challenges, including instability in international trade and market and manufacturing disruptions. As well, the confidence of Americans is declining. These macro disruptions affect all of us,…
Read More Unbreakable: Lifting resiliency in uncertain times
Employees who switched companies used to earn roughly 10 to 20 percent more than those who stayed with one company. Not anymore. The median pay increase for workers switching jobs sank substantially to 4.8 percent last month from a high…
Executives would sleep better if they knew their employees had their back and would raise significant issues and opportunities, not just brush major issues under the rug. As a C-suite executive, wouldn’t you want an organization like this? Today, I…
Read More Would you have the nerve to shut down a multi-million-dollar robot?
The trend in government and business these days is to cut workers across the board with little notice and shared strategy. It’s done in the name of improving efficiency. But mindlessly cutting workers doesn’t achieve this goal. Instead, it leaves…
Read More Mindless workforce cost-cutting could cut down your business
When I took over Human Resources for a division of the global medical technology company Medtronic in the 2000s, I discovered they were spending a paltry sum on employee learning. I asked them to engage with me in developing a…
Read More Improve your profitability with a better learning plan
Executive strategy sessions don't have to be futile or unproductive. Yet, according to some sources, a significant portion of executives, potentially as high as 97 percent, believe that traditional strategy sessions are a waste of time. But because of a whole…
Read More Seven tips for effective executive strategy sessions
