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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?
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
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?
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
The pace of new tools for innovators, such as OpenAI, is exciting. However, research shows that without the right culture, digital transformation in organizations fails. Organizational Culture is key for executives to lead continual change, technology implementation, and to have…
Read More Culture remains critical for today’s innovative organizations
On Martin Luther King Day this week, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the nation’s 47th President. He vowed to curtail Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) programs in government, have government policy recognize only two genders, male and female,…
Today is election day in the United States. Americans regret incivility in our politics and believe that politics is a top driver of incivility at work. More than half (58 percent) of US workers believe our society is uncivil. It…
Read More Whether you support Harris or Trump, be civil at work
Company culture and workplace etiquette are evolving, according to new studies this year. But how it is evolving, and how your management team responds to these changes can affect your company culture and improve productivity and employee retention. A Harris…
Read More How a thriving workplace culture fuels productivity
