employee training
Hiring Team Players
April 28, 2011 0 Comments
Assessments The Los Angeles Galaxy professional soccer team paid enormously for British star David Beckham’s talents, seemingly without considering whether he was a team player. Some people already possess the interpersonal skills to be effective team players—but when faced with candidates who lack team skills, Read More
Groupthink – The Downfall of Many Teams
April 13, 2011 1 Comment
Organizational Psychology Have you ever felt like speaking up in a team meeting but decided against it? One reason may have been shyness or you may have been a victim of groupthink! Groupthink occurs the team’s need for consensus overrides the expression of deviant or Read More
Job Rotation – A Useful Strategy for the Employee and for the Organization
March 22, 2011 1 Comment
Organizational Development In job rotation, an employee is periodically shifted from one task to another that requires a similar skill set. This strategy is useful for maintaining employee motivation and can provide other benefits to the organization such as employees that are cross-trained on multiple Read More
How Managers Evaluate Their Employees Depends on Culture
March 4, 2011 0 Comments
Employee Development A study of managers from North America, Asia, and Latin America* found interesting differences in their perceptions of employee motivation. North American managers perceive their employees as motivated more by extrinsic factors (for example: money) than by intrinsic factors (for example: performing meaningful Read More
Understanding Emotions in the Workplace, Internationally
February 7, 2011 2 Comments
Employee Motivation People from all over the world interpret negative and positive emotions in much the same way. We all view negative emotions, such as hate, terror, and rage, as dangerous and destructive, and we desire positive emotions, such as joy, love, and happiness. However, Read More
Can Managers Create Satisfied Employees?
February 1, 2011 2 Comments
Employee Development Can managers create satisfied employees? Well it depends on who you ask. A review of the evidence suggests that there are solid argument for and against this proposition. On the positive side, the evidence suggests that there are four factors that are conducive Read More
The Importance of Interpersonal Skills
January 12, 2011 3 Comments
Employee Development Until the late 1980s, business school curricula emphasized the technical aspects of management, focusing on economics, accounting, finance, and quantitative techniques. Course work in human behavior and people skills received relatively less attention. However, over the past three decades business faculty have come Read More
The Integral Psychograph – A Tool for Personal and Employee Development
December 7, 2010 0 Comments
Assessments Have you ever noticed how unevenly developed most of us are? Some people are highly developed in, say, logical thinking, but poorly developed in emotional feelings. Some people have highly advanced cognitive development (they’re very smart) but poor moral development (they’re mean and ruthless). Read More
Competencies for Leadership Development: What’s Hot and What’s Not
December 1, 2010 1 Comment
Leadership Development “There is no one clear model or framework for determining the competencies to use for leadership development” so says William A. Gentry, PhD of the Center for Creative Leadership. In an exhaustive study he conducted of over 24,000 managers there appears to be Read More
Selecting Candidates for your Leadership Development Program
November 30, 2010 0 Comments
Leadership Development As more organizations become aware of the impending vacuum left by retiring “Baby boomers” they are seeking ways to accelerate the leadership skills of younger employees showing leadership potential. Unless you know what you are doing, however, creating a leadership development program can Read More
