Unconscious behaviours and biases are often at play with interpreting perceptions and driving our actions. Many of our behaviours in the workplace and elsewhere are motivated by unconscious triggers and emotions. These behaviours, however, can be prevented by making conscious choices that tap into our subconscious thinking.
Surviving in today’s constantly changing business landscape requires being comfortable with uncertainty. When we’re overwhelmed with constant changes and uncertainty, how can we pick up the right signals to understand and harness change?
Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organisation to give of their best each day, committed to their organisation’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organisational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
Just as retrospection refers to our ability to re-experience the past, prospection refers to our ability to “pre-experience” the future by simulating it in our minds. (Gilbert 2007) If people cannot align their current and future self it results in unrealistic strategy.
Top performers need to be coached differently. A lot of courage is required to confront and remould an already successful employee. This is why coaching top performers can be a cumbersome task.
Collaboration encourages a healthy exchange of ideas. There is an air of transparency within teams which genuinely collaborate. No one is busy hiding his/her flaws; no one resists a public scrutiny.