Joy at Work Thinking
Written by Ed Cook
One of the Ten Dimensions of Joy at Work is Belonging. It is one of the more obvious dimensions, who doesn’t want to belong; however, measuring belonging is not as obvious. Although we believe there is much that humans can simply intuit about joy attributes, such as belong...
Written by Ed Cook
With the Great Resignation causing distressing amounts of employee turnover and dismal employee retention numbers, Employee Engagement is front of mind for many leaders. What employee engagement is, however, can be elusive. Some see it as activities associated with team buil...
Written by Roxanne Brown
I made the long flight from DC to San Francisco on a trip for work. I was going to a Data Governance conference in Japantown. Larry English would be speaking but that’s not why I came. Mr. English, who passed away in 2020, was considered the data quality guru at the ti...
Written by Roxanne Brown
In times of crisis (and change), leaders need to give people something constructive to do that’s not throwaway work. That’s what people want right now.Â
In normal times, the workforce has a much easier time deciding what they should focus on. A company’s values, missio...
Written by Roxanne Brown
Change is an active learning process. Even when the destination is clear (most often it's not, even in the most stable times), the path there involves a lot of test-and-learn activity. We like the "learn your way forward" way of thinking about change, or "decide-change-...
The founder and host of the Change & Innovation Summit, April Callis Birchmeier, interviews Roxanne Brown. Roxanne shares her thoughts about how to work with leaders and how to develop layers of change leadership.
Written by Ed Cook
The increasing frequency of calls to “go back” to the office is not surprising. The past year-and-a-half has been anywhere from difficult to deadly for nearly everyone on the planet. Who wouldn’t want to roll back the clock? Sure, we had worries back then, but, for most of...
Part of the What-if Series: Risks Change Professionals navigate every day. What do you do as a Change Professional when you've just started on a project that's been in progress for a long time already?
Many Change Professionals believe that they're at a disadvantage when they don't start on a proje...
Written by Ed Cook
It’s a fascinating exercise to pose the question, “Are you a great Change Leader?” The personae that tend to emerge break in one of two directions, Lawyer or Scientist.
The Lawyer will begin with a recitation of presumably amazing evidence underlying their Change Leadershi...
Written by Roxanne Brown
If you think change will be hard, it will be. We’ve seen it over and over again. If you believe your people can’t handle change or don’t like change then you are pretty much guaranteeing that it won’t go well. If you believe that your people can handle change and just n...
Written by Roxanne Brown
Are you an early adopter at work? Changing to something new while the folks around you haven’t changed yet takes courage.
Are you an influencer at work? Changing influences people around you to change too.
Are you slow to adopt changes at work? If you’ve been burned in th...
Written by Roxanne Brown
It’s not usually WHAT you want to change that upsets people, it’s HOW they feel they (and others) are treated in the process that is most upsetting. The best you can do is be intentional about how you want it to feel and decide what must be true for that to happen. Then...
