Summary: If you know a lot about different types of trees, you’re going to get more enjoyment out of a walk in the woods. If you know more about types of people, you’ll get to know them better, and you’ll be a better manager. But beware systems where people self-identify. Among your employees you have…
Summary: Among your employees you have some who rise to the top in certain traits. Are you paying attention? Are you identifying them and putting them where they’ll be the most effective? Myers-Briggs and similar personality tests are unscientific and potentially harmful. Use this method instead. Observe employees’ natural tendencies and deploy them effectively throughout…
Summary: It’s no surprise that employees and executives have different opinions about what’s wrong with the workplace. Is one of these disconnects the belief that employees want to be like the executives? My friend Todd Lebo from Ascend2 sent me a copy of the Arbinger Institute’s 2024 Workplace Trends report. What caught my eye was…
Summary: Many of the workplace attitudes and “demands” attributed to Gen. Z are just rehashed Baby Boomer ideas. At the MACMA Holiday Extravaganza in New York last week, Farrah Bostic from The Difference Engine and Valentina Bojanini from TED were asked how to deal with generational differences in the workplace. They downplayed some of the…