Author of The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation, Soren Kaplan, defines culture as "the norms and values that change behavior". To transform these two essential foundations of a workplace culture, you must look within and change your own behavior, since what we project is what ultimately communicates and reinforces what's important. So, for example, if you would like higher level engagement and more ideation/innovation with your team, you need to do th

The difference between change and transformation can never be illustrated as perfectly as the change of guard in our nation’s capital this week. Change is just that, a shift from A to B or one to another or from here to there. It can involve major cultural shifts like all language, the entirety of the organization’s business, or the entire value system on which the foundation of the company rests. Change is tactical, focuses on methods and processes (not people) and has a hig

What happens when training and education aren't offered? Are you speaking the same language as your stakeholders? Get Up to Speed or Get Out!! Tech innovation makes our personal and professional worlds easier and more complex at the same time. In the workplace, there's certainly no debate that the words we choose and the way we say things can easily be misconstrued without constant communication and education from leadership. Language and definitions in any industry are con

In 2017, researchers from the University of Birmingham studied 2 years’ worth of data on 20,000 workers to determine the effects of autonomy on employee morale and well being. Generally, the higher levels of autonomy a worker experienced, the higher their sense of job satisfaction and well being. Now granted, this was 3 years before the WFH mandate around Covid-19, but remote and isolated work doesn’t necessarily mean autonomous. In fact, it’s hardly autonomous at all, what w