Posts Tagged ‘organizational productivity’
Are your Goals SMART?
Setting goals is important for workplace productivity. The SMART acronymn is one process you can use.
Read MoreUnfreeze, Change, Refreeze: Is This a Child’s Game?
The words unfreeze, change, and refreeze are the foundation model for leading change. It’s the work of Kurt Lewin.
Read MoreIdea Quota for Innovative and Creative Solutions
How to Involve Your Team in Problem Solving Resolving problems in organizations often requires managers to take off their usual supervision hat (telling their employees what to do) and put on their facilitation hat (asking their employees what to do). As these managers have learned, seeking the input of their employees who do the work…
Read MoreFour Solutions for Creative and Innovative Problem Solving
We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve,…
Read MoreCan Baby Boomers and Millennials Just Get Along?
Baby Boomer/Generation Y Conflict Expectations can be tricky and this is no different in the workplace! As I listen to some Baby Boomer managers relate their frustrations about working with Generation Y (millennials) workers, their two main complaints center on their perceptions of the younger generation’s work ethic and sense of entitlement. These managers express…
Read MoreEight Ways to Increase Innovation
A report representing companies of all sizes across various industries identifies 8 high quality ideas for increasing innovation.
Read More