Three Ways Behavioral Science Will Shape the Future of Leadership Development

Summary A combination of global pandemic and a new generation of employees are driving a realignment of the employee-employer dynamic. As people re-examine their work priorities, enlightened CEOs and senior leaders increasingly recognize that managers who understand and effectively influence human behavior deliver better results. Behavioral science is moving front and center as executives rethink leader development. With this focus they are asking which of the many behavioral science insights and tools will…

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22 March 2022

Communications / Leadership

Brain Science is Turning Feedback Inside-Out

In his article, Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement, Scott Judd, the head of People Analytics at Facebook, observes that "…surveys are starting to look like diesel trucks, collecting dust in the age of electric cars." Employee feedback surveys first emerged in the 1920s, along with scientific management and the drive to improve industrial productivity. In 1932, Rensis Likert began a revolution in survey research with his…

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9 May 2021

Performance / Virtual Teams

Are You Measuring what Really Matters?

When Peter Drucker said, “If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.” he was advocating that organizations could improve their performance through better metrics. I would argue that Drucker got it right, but that he should have added “and what you measure matters the most.” Many teams fail to measure the most critical predictors of their effectiveness over time – the health of the relationships between team members and across teams. Unlike…

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22 July 2018

Motivation and Engagement

4 Steps to Motivating Millennial Teams

For organizations in search of talent, people born between 1977 and 1994 matter because a) there are a lot of them; and b) by 2020, their generation will make up 50% of the global workforce. This generation’s career aspirations, attitudes about work, and comfort with technology will define the work culture of the 21st century. The term “millennials”, given to this generation by social scientists and the media, is a Western label. Leaders…

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18 February 2018

Team Research / Virtual Teams

Too Many Cooks In Your Virtual Team’s Kitchen?

As organizations become more team-centric, and as globalization drives interaction across regions and time zones, the use of virtual teams has grown rapidly (SHRM, 2012). For organizations, the advantages of being able to leverage talent and resources across geographies and time zones can be a source of competitive advantage. For the individuals chosen to lead these virtual teams, the challenges associated with leadership are amplified by the nature of being virtual rather than…

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4 February 2018

Leadership

Team Leadership Trends 2018

The reshaping of organizations that began at the turn of the century continued this year at an accelerated pace. How organizations respond and reshape themselves based on team leadership trends will determine their trajectory: greatness or mediocrity.

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24 December 2017

Motivation and Engagement / Team Research

Moving from Individual to Team Engagement

Individual employee engagement has been associated with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, proactive behavior, and performance. Recently, scholars have proposed that work engagement is not only an individual phenomenon, but it also occurs in teams. Team engagement refers to the extent to which team members are collectively involved in performing collaborative tasks, and are emotionally connected with team mates’ work and goals. Guchait (2016), hypothesizing that team engagement would have a positive impact on team…

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10 December 2017