A recent study at Australia’s RMIT University revealed that long-term job insecurity can make people less emotionally stable, less agreeable and less conscientious. The study used national data to answer questions about job security and personality for more than one thousand employees over nine years. They found that the personality traits affected were tied to reliably […]
Read More →When things go wrong, rather than focusing on identifying who made the mistake, focus on the situation and the solution. Put your energy and attention into what happened, how best to fix it, what process improvements, training, and checks and balances are needed to insure it doesn’t happen again. Resist finger-pointing or blaming. Don’t go on a […]
Read More →Today’s tight labor market means organizations must work harder to keep the people they have. Harvard Business Review contributor Jon Christiansen says, there are three things that tend to make people quit that leaders must stop doing. Creating a culture of fear. If employees are afraid their thoughts or ideas will be met with repercussions, they go […]
Read More →Managing by fear is widely recognized as an outdated concept that does more harm than good. According to Organizational Anthropologist Judith Glazer, recent advances in neuroscience show it to be quite damaging. Glazer says in order to be a manager who inspires their team, one needs to understand how the brain reacts to fear verses […]
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