Category: Transform Org Wellbeing
The Impossible Choice
Should businesses invest in employee wellness and recovery, even at the cost of stakeholder returns? This choice is especially difficult for organizations that are suffering from employee burnout and high turnover, yet have suffered significant revenue declines and are barely surviving. Most of the time, the answer I hear is "No, companies are not responsible ...
Using OKRs to redefine Leader Roles & Job Descriptions
The topic of using Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for Personal Performance & Development plans is not new. However, using OKRs to re-defined leader roles and job descriptions is more recent and potentially more powerful. This article tackles the WHY, HOW, and WHAT to avoid of this practice. They WHY is simple: Using objectives rather ...
Leader’s Hope Deferred
Are you losing hope? Behind all the positive platitudes, all your strategies, all your plans, and all your presentations… are you losing hope? Not just hope in your organization. Not just hope in achieving your targets. Not just hope in your leadership. I mean your personal hope. Are you losing hope in yourself? And before you ...
Leading a Burned-Out Workforce
Let’s get straight to it, leaders. New research from HBR, Gallup, and others is revealing that about half of us are in denial and telling ourselves lies. We have been distancing ourselves from the real problem… often to protect ourselves, our leadership gaps, and frankly our organizational pressures. What are those lies? (1) We can ...
Evolving the profit and people business equation
On December 1, 2021 in the thick fog of COVID pandemic uncertainty with most countries announcing quarantine restrictions ahead of the Christmas holiday season, Simon Sinek tweeted one of his famous timely quotes "Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. Purpose is the reason we do the thing that makes the profit." About a month ...
Fix Delivery Predictability in the Boardroom
I recently spoke to a senior IT executive in a large Canadian nonprofit with rich history dating back to late 1800's. It was clear that COVID provided a point of personal reflection and he recently left the private sector for a more meaningful position serving Canadians. Among many comparisons between private and nonprofit organizations, we ...
Get unstuck & empower leaders through LEADERSHIP Hackathon
Running a Hackathon is not just for software companies. Spotify HR (yes HR!) has been using hackathons as early as 2015. Their first hackathon successfully increased diversity and gender-parity of at that time male-dominated organization. But their most recent hackathon did not have developers or engineers, but rather middle-managers and organizational leaders. As recently shared in their HR ...
Five P’s of Office Politics
Office politics are a complex issue, especially when we are the subjects of it. Yes sometimes decisions are made to advance personal executive agendas or business profit at the “expense” of people. Yes the business “morality” is often in conflict with the morality of staff effected. On the surface, especially when we are victims of these ...
Value Transformed 