How to Design A Strategy for Growing Employee Creativity at No/Low Cost + Potential for High Return
Designing a winning strategy for growing employee creativity at No/Low Cost with a Potential for High Return is right under your nose.
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Revive Declining Performance: An Easy Exercise for Stressed Leaders to Transform Defeated Employees
Declining performance, disengaged, and defeated employees got you stressed? Look no further.
Tuning into the Wisdom of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is the pesky and persistent messenger that holds the wisdom leaders need to move their organizations forward. Tune into it.
5 Reasons Design Thinking Beats AI and Chatgpt in the Future of Work
Are you prepared for the future or threatened by the effect AI will have on your or your team's job? Keep reading
Innovation - for love of planet or profits?
People are waking up to the ways that innovation touted as a love for the planet is truthfully about a love of profits.
Five Reasons Why AI could be the Death of Large Corporations
AI and Chatgpt have set the world ablaze, but will corporations discover you can get burned when you play with fire? Click to read more.
Your Listening Tour Failed to Deliver the Results You Expected, Here's Why
Your listening tour failed to deliver the results to your organization you had expected. Read today's blog to discover why
5 Reasons You're Burning Thru Money on Programs and Perks With Little Progress
Perception, not programs and perks allow company leaders to reduce employee turnover and increase internal innovation.
Three Reasons Your Agile Culture is Resulting in Employee Burnout
In this post, Karen explores three reasons why Agile methodology and the cultures built around it result in employee burnout.
You're expecting too much from your new hires. Here's why.
You've found the perfect hire. Later, you check in on your new hire and discover that the gem you found has lost its shine. What changed?
Why the Mission of Being the Leader in Innovation is a Ladder on the Wrong Wall
Innovation, by definition, is unlimited possibilities. Trying to make a dent in something unlimited is a ladder leaning on the wrong wall.
Unlock the Gold Workshop: Design Thinking + DEI = Performance Gold
Unlock the Gold Workshop: Design Thinking + DEI = Performance Gold. A free event you won't want to miss coming October 12, 2022.
5 Reasons Corporation's Efforts to Scale Can Lead to Imminent Death
It's foolish to think the biggest version of yourself is the best version. Human potential (nor corporate potential) doesn't work like that.
Designing Solutions That Create Buy-IN
Designing solutions that create buy-in go beyond "what's in it for me?" Read this post to find out how.
5 Ways to Give Employee Creativity the Space to Fly
Today's workplace is in crucial need of creativity to solve the myriad of challenges it faces. So skip the art class and do this instead.
Digital Transformation Got You Frustrated? (Read This!)
Digital transformation (done right) is fantastic - effective and seamless. When it isn't - leaders are frustrated and initiatives fail.
The Space in Between the Conflict of WFH vs. RTO Holds the Answer
How to eliminate the space between work from home and in-office to create a better employee experience.
Two Lies Deceiving Today's Executives About Leadership & Digital Transformation
There are two lies deceiving today's executives about leadership and digital transformation. Read more to find out what they are.
Innovation Must be Prescriptive Before it can be Disruptive
Are you flowing with what Life presents or you trying to force innovation. The secret: Innovation is prescriptive before it is disruptive.
The Most Important Thing Missing with Employee Experience (Hint: It's not butts in seats)
If this one thing didn't suck, employee experience would be insignificant.
5 Ways Leaders Can Design a Culture Where Employees are Productive & Happy to be at Work
In this post we explore 5 ways leaders can design a culture where employees are productive and happy to be at work.
Shifting from Culture Wars to Creating a Caring Culture
Is your company losing the fight in the Culture Wars? Time to shift from culture wars to creating a caring culture.
Cannibalism, Course Correction, & Recalibrating Corporate Vision
Scratch going back to pre-pandemic business as usual and the new normal. We decide the future world we want to live in and then create it.
How might we design a more beautiful world?
In this blog, Karen discusses the ultimate "how might we statements" and common mistakes overlooked by many in design.
Design Thinking - the Upskill Multiplier
Design Thinking isn't just one skill. What if leaders could innovate, creatively problem-solve in real-time, and upskill for the future...
How Leaders Unlock the Innovation Treasures of Glassdoor Reviews
Learn how using the Steve Jobs 3 levels of listening with Glassdoor reviews can help leaders improve the employee experience.
What the Great Resignation is Telling Today's Leaders
The great resignation was the what. The catalyst behind it (the why) was a great rejection. Learn what employees are rejecting in this post.
What a Doomsday Prepper Video Teaches About Employee Autonomy
In this post, we look at what a doomsday prepper can teach business leaders about autonomy and hope for a better future of work.
How to Turn Strategy from a Directive to a Dialogue that Delivers
Directives don't deliver results. Human behavior reveals we are resistant to being told what to do and to change. So what can leaders do?
Create a Better Future Through Listening - 30 Day Challenge
In this Listening Challenge, each day consists of a blog post and a quick prompt to practice & improve your ability to listen with empathy.
Design Thinking is Like Open-Source for Change Management
What if change management was no longer the dreaded process of the past. Is it possible it could be enthusiastically embraced?
Can Repeating One Question Build an Innovative Culture? Yes, it can!
One simple question can lead to innovation, authentic connection, psychological safety, and be a positive emotion contagion. Learn more.
5 Reasons Why the Future of Leadership is Leading by Design
Shifting from Information Age to Experience Age requires a shift in leadership styles. Leading by Design is the future of leadership.
Productivity Myths & the Power of Bringing Your Whole Self to Work
Debunk productivity myths, unpack the three dimensions of human productivity, and help employees bring their whole self to work.
How Companies Keep the Lights On & Move Forward
The severity of the pandemic left many companies wondering how to keep the lights on. Innovation is the key, this post tells you how.
How Company Innovations Fail in the Users' Interview Stage
Initiatives cost time, money, and valuable resources. Yet companies often fail right out the gate without knowing it. Read to learn how.
Your Company's Next Innovation is Hidden in Plain Sight
Buying a startup is costly and the failure rate is high. Instead of buying innovation, create an innovative culture.
5 Ways Companies Can Empower Professionals with AI
Five ways leaders can empower salespeople with AI to improve performance vs. eliminate positions.
Business Model Innovation Like the Giants in 6 Easy Steps
Dive into the business models of Giants like Amazon, Google & Alibaba and learn 6 simple steps for business model innovation.
What is Design Thinking? Why all the Buzz About It?
What is design thinking? It's effective, efficient, and ego-free and today's organizational leaders are all a buzz about its unlimited uses.
80% of People Aren't Empathetic. How to Be Successful Anyway
80% of People Aren't Empathetic. Why It Doesn't Matter & How to Be Successful Anyway
Part 2 - Re-designing Change Management Models for Humans
Re-designing change management models for the 21st Century. Part 2
Part 1 -Re-designing Change Management Models for Humans
How can we re-design change management models and bring them into the 21st century? Part 1 of why we need to and how to do it.
Big Data without Design Thinking is Detrimental
Data is big in business today thus the term Big Data. But is our data dependency detrimental?
How Innovation Can Dissolve Employee Complaints
Dissolving complaints lead to innovation, happy employees and customers. All result in a positive impact on the bottom line.
Leaders: Are Your Decisions Intuitive or Ego-Centered?
Leadership requires judgment calls. However, there's a difference between an intuitive decision and ego-centered disapproval. Read more...
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