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Episode 1: Three Ways Behavioral Science Will Shape the Future of Leadership Development
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What distinguishes exceptional teams and their leaders from the rest? Each year, businesses invest billions of dollars in programs and ideas to improve leader and team performance. Yet, most of those programs fail to turn ideas into the habits that lead to more effective, higher-performing teams.
The Brainware blog and ONE Habit podcasts explore habits shared by exceptional team leaders, along with current team leadership and effectiveness research, and how to apply these concepts to your organization.
Behavioral science will help L&D shape leadership development by building skills in creating trust, psychological safety, motivation, and behavior nudges.
Listen →Leaders are told over and over the importance and benefits of encouraging candid, healthy employee voice. They are told that they should surround themselves with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree without fear of retaliation. When they don’t hold themselves to the same standard, they abdicate an essential leadership responsibility.
Listen →From existentialist reflections on life and work, to building a case for how office layout and furniture choices can contribute to shared purpose and prosperity, there is no lack of advice on how to go about finding greater purpose in one’s work. However, for most first-level team leaders and mid-level managers, over-loaded days and limited access to coaching resources leave little hope for meaningful change in a leader’s personality and behavior. If your days feel like you and your team are changing tires on a moving car, then you only have time for solutions that are simple to implement and effective in their outcome. The key question is what actions can you realistically take to ensure that both the organization and your team reap the rewards of finding real purpose at work?
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