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Preview Thursday: the Mood Elevator by Dr. Larry Senn

Lead Change Blog

As a result, organizations waste time, energy, and money struggling to overcome personal and cultural dysfunctions rather than focusing on productivity, creativity, and growth. Our clients learn that healthy organizational behaviors are only a thought away—and they learn how to access them.

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. An in-demand global speaker, Karen wows her audiences with high-energy presentations containing practical takeaways. Ambiguity about customer requirements or preferences means you don’t have to work to satisfy them.

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Employee Engagement: Energizing and Mobilizing People

Great Leadership By Dan

But rapid realignment needs energy that is focused, that drives continuous improvement and works to achieve the organization's purpose. This energy comes when an employee is engaged, so let's take a look at what engagement is all about. Energizing the system from top to bottom is a key task of leadership. Engaged Versus Aligned.

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How Leaders Can Make their Messaging Meaningful

Lead Change Blog

Your employees also want to understand that what they are specifically being asked to do really matters and that it is worthy of their time and energy. Organizational behavior researchers Tom Lawrence and Sally Maitlis indicate that storytelling is a vital meaning-making leadership skill. Where do I belong? How do I Fit in?

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. Journal of Organizational Behavior , 41 (1), 67–80. Rhetorical Tools in Organizational Culture. Simplifying Complexity: To avoid nuanced discussions by offering simple but inadequate answers. Effective Management Training.

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Managing for the Unexpected –Understanding Emergence Theory In Business

Great Leadership By Dan

That’s not to say that the unexpected may result, but, if it does it is more likely to be due to faulty design or implementation than the emergence of behaviors ruminating from ghosts in the machine. About The Author: James M. He is a recognized authority in corporate transformation, strategy formulation and business process redesign.

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shorts.003 | Employee Engagement and Performance

LDRLB

The researchers defined job engagement as “a multidimensional motivational concept reflecting the simultaneous investment of an individual’s physical, cognitive, and emotional energy in active, full work performance” (p. This post originally appeared on Positive Organizational Behavior. Simmons, Ph.D. Simmons, Ph.D.

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