Manage Employee Fulfillment for Peak Performance
Part seven in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. How does a great leader maximize performance? Great leaders — and their most successful employees — understand that sustaining peak performance goes hand in hand with supporting employee fulfillment. This seventh Mindset of Workplace Transformation asks you to shift your focus from optimizing performance to optimizing satisfaction. In past posts, we’ve covered shifts from status to service, control to creativity,...
Efficiency vs Effectiveness: Resisting the Tyranny of To-Do
Have you ever had a day, a week, or even a year where you have a nagging sense that, despite being exhaustingly busy, you haven’t been that productive? You’re not alone. Whether you work for yourself or someone else, it’s easy to focus on getting things done and lose sight of why any of it matters to begin with. Understanding what real productivity looks like is the key to...
The Productivity Prison
Are you one of those leaders who’s always pressuring your team — and yourself — to get things done faster? You’re not alone. The “time is money” philosophy at the heart of this mindset is also the heart of the industrial age management philosophy on which most traditional business “best practices” are based. If this is your management modus operandi, you’re probably just as convinced that faster is better as you...
Purpose-Driven Leadership: Why and How to Make the Shift.
In part 4 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series, we examine how purpose-driven leadership and profit-driven leadership don’t have to be at odds. In previous installments, I’ve covered three key mindset shifts leaders must make to transform their workplace from struggling to thriving: the shift from seeking status to being of service, the shift from maintaining control to fostering creativity, and the shift from focusing on survival to...
Why Micromanagement in the Workplace Stifles Innovation — and How to Stop It!
Part 3 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. Below, we cover how workplace micromanagement can severely diminish employee capacity, and what you can do about it. Picture a company where all workers do exactly as their managers ask with no feedback or resistance. Sound like nirvana? If so, you might be in need of this mindset shift: moving from control to creativity. Many leaders fall into the trap of...
From Status-Seeker to Servant Leader: The Second Mindset Shift
This is part 2 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. Read on to discover how becoming a servant leader can transform your company. The research is in — piles of it, and growing: for businesses to thrive, work must become more than just a paycheque. It must become a source of aliveness that calls forth the potential of every employee. To achieve this, leaders need to shift away...
How Fear Blocks Your Ability to Create a High-Performance Workplace
Part 1 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. After 25 years working with individuals and organizations to transform their work and their workplaces, I can point to hundreds of ways in which the high-performance workplace has become not only more prevalent, but more healthy. Technology has made it possible for people to work from anywhere, allowing work arrangements to accommodate a wide variety of lifestyles and schedules. Hierarchies...
