Work MotivationSep 26, 2019 Better engagement means better performance – or does it? Key points The concept of employee engagement that is popular in today’s organizations lacks a clear definition and solid evidence to support its links with employees’ performance Engagement surveys very often measure job satisfaction and organizational commitment, but these two variables are only weakly linked to employees’ performance Interventions to increase job satisfaction and organizationalContinue Reading
Featured and LeadershipMay 6, 2019 What we do (and don’t) know about the factors linked to workplace coaching success Key points Coach-client trust, coaching motivation, and client self-efficacy are most consistently linked with workplace coaching success in current empirical research on coaching. The influence of feedback, coach-client similarity, and supervisor support is less clear. In addition to external research, people designing workplace coaching programs may want to look to organizational sources of evidence toContinue Reading
Featured and Organizational DevelopmentNov 5, 2018 Why you should consider fairness when designing your change management process Key Points There may be no single recipe for getting fairness “right” during an organizational change. However, research on fairness offers some compelling ideas to consider. You can integrate fairness into your change approach in various ways — the results or outcomes, the process you use to make decisions, how people are treated, and theContinue Reading
Featured and LeadershipMar 7, 2018 Ignoring Bad Leadership May Be Risky Business — Here’s Why. Bad leadership affects 10%-16% of US employees. This comes to an annual cost of close to $24 billion. If you haven’t considered how the “dark side” of leadership may be affecting your employees and your organization, now might be the time to give it some thought!Continue Reading
Featured and TeamworkOct 9, 2017 Five questions about psychological safety, answered. Psychological safety recently came storming into the mainstream when research by Google on high-performing teams hit the news. This Evidence Summary highlights the findings from 117 studies representing over 22,000 individuals and nearly 5,000 groups!Continue Reading
Featured and Training and DevelopmentJun 5, 2017 Goal Monitoring: Why it pays to keep your eye on the prize. What do New Year’s Day, the start of the fiscal year, and the kick-off of a political campaign have in common? The unveiling of big goals and ambitions, often with great fanfare! It’s exciting to set bold goals and envision a better future. But as we all know, setting goals and achieving them are two different things.Continue Reading
Featured and TeamworkNov 21, 2016 Trust: does it impact team performance… or not? How many teams are you part of right now? Probably at least one, maybe quite a few. How much time do you spend thinking about and working to build trust on the team(s)? If the answer is “not much,” new research may convince you that trust is worth more of your attention.Continue Reading
