Author: Emily
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HR Beyond Admin: Driving Profit Through Employee Engagement
The outdated view of HR as merely an administrative function persists, and the important issues HR works on are not given the space they need to create real business value. Or are they? 🤔 Yesterday, I came across a study by Brilliant Future AB based on data from employee surveys in their database and financial…
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Designing meeting culture
💬 Your meeting culture is a reflection of your overall company culture—is it people-driven, power-driven, idea-driven, or results-driven? Understanding your meeting culture is essential for designing meetings that people love to attend. Sadly, we don’t usually pay attention to our meeting culture, and most of us have never calculated the true cost of our business…
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Better Decisions Faster: Tips for Your Organization
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt like your organization’s decision-making process could use a little work. 🖐️ Whether you’re struggling with delays, unclear decisions, or something else entirely, there are steps you can take to improve the process. Here are three strategies to help you make smarter, more efficient decisions. 💨🏁 📜🚦1 – Clarify…
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Are OKRs Killing Your Motivation and Performance? The Neuroscience of Goal-Setting.
🧠 I’ve been delving deep into the world of neuroscience lately, exploring its impact on organizational change and leadership. One aspect that’s caught my attention is the importance of setting attainable goals. It got me thinking: Are OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) really the best approach? 🤔 OKRs often push us to set ambitious targets,…
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The Role of Rituals in Building Workplace Culture
A few weeks back, my husband and I had a conversation about what defines a ritual, the rituals we commonly encounter in the workplace, and how it differs from your average meeting or ceremony. This conversation got me curious, so I dove back into my social anthropology books from my time at university and revisited…
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Focus Matters: The Neuroscience Behind Distractions
I’m currently reading Hilary Scarlett’s book about Neuroscience for Organizational Change, and one thing that caught my attention is the research on distractions, smartphones, and other devices. In this experiment, three groups were tasked with solving math problems, all while turning off sound and notifications on their phones. However, their phones were placed differently: face…
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Open Offices: A Communication Killer?
Did you know communication drops by 70% in open office workplaces compared to private settings? 📉 Surprising, right? I’ll share the link to the research in the comments. Turns out, proximity triggers a human response to withdraw socially (despite our need for social interaction), favoring privacy instead. As an alternative, people resort to email and…
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Reevaluating the Candidate Experience in Today’s Job Market
Lately, I’ve been talking with a lot of job seekers who are navigating the market due to various reasons—leaving toxic work environments, coping with recent layoffs, or just in search of new opportunities where they can truly thrive. What I’m hearing from candidates I interview, from members of the HR circles and book clubs I…
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Crafting Core Values: Building Our Cultural Foundation
An executive team I collaborated with had a clear vision of their mission and culture, but it was mostly confined to the minds of the CEO, founder, and executives. This sporadic communication led to a lack of consistent reinforcement, causing the team to feel unclear and misaligned with the vision and culture. To address this,…
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Beyond the balance sheet: the real ROI of investing in culture
In the corporate world, where numbers often take precedence over everything else, the conversation about culture often doesn’t take center stage. For founders, CEOs, CFOs, and other numbers-driven leaders, investing in culture might not immediately resonate with them. It rarely provides the immediate, tangible returns on investment they typically seek. And that is often times…