Managers typically don’t do enough to understand their own organisational culture, and that exposes the organisation to significant risk. Such is the assertion in a recent Australian Financial Review article (read it here) that looks into organisational culture. In fact, the traditional definition of organisational culture as being ‘the way …
The Secret to Being a Better Leader: See and Hear Others
Sunday, July 17, 2016Consistently people who have good empathy for others are proven to be better leaders, lead more effective teams, and gain power more readily. What does it mean to be empathetic? According to Dacher Keltner in a recent Science of Us article (Read it here), it is the understanding of what …
Performance Management Reinvented
Monday, May 23, 2016Just in case you didn’t know, the traditional annual performance management discussion is on the way out. An increasing number of companies are ditching the time-consuming, subjective and demotivating practices for new ways of managing employee performance. McKinsey & Company have published an excellent article on this issue (read it …
Good Employers Encourage Sleeping
Monday, March 28, 2016It is no secret that sleep-deprived brains are less effective and make more bad judgements. While it may ultimately be the individual’s responsibility to manage their sleep, employers can play a significant role. In recent research from McKinsey and Company (Read it here) the links between a good night’s sleep …
Work-Life Boundaries
Monday, March 28, 2016A critical component in maintaining psychological well-being and recovering properly for a new day is effective detachment from work. New research from Brendon Smit, and reported in BPS Research Digest identify (Read it here), the number one way you can effectively detach from work. Detachment is important so that work …
Nobody Cares How Hard You Work
Sunday, October 25, 2015An article recently in 99U had this headline, and it really caught my attention. And you can read it here. Working through the available research, author Oliver Burkeman points out that most likely we “chronically confuse the feeling of effort with the reality of results”. That is, just because we …