“Pushing back the dark”
Why do good people in challenging environments still try, against all odds, to make a positive difference?
Transforming Risks into Opportunities: Enabling Employees to Drive Change
Are external change drivers a threat or an opportunity for your company and its employees? Who is involved in making a positive difference?
This article describes how social learning programs can transform passive awareness into active contribution.
By enabling employees to discover their personal connection to the company’s goals, companies can foster higher engagement and a greater sense of belonging while cultivating additional sources of innovation and organizational resilience.
“Who authorized this?”
What do you do when your boss cares more about control and preserving their authority than about doing what’s right for the company and its people?
The first scientific paper on the effectiveness of Working Out Loud®
Can a social learning program change people’s behavior and sense of empowerment? If so, can these changes stick?
“Yes” and “Yes”.
This post summarizes the study, its findings, and ideas for future research.
Ms. Williams at Window #4
The US post office has almost 600,000 human beings working there. On average they may come into contact with dozens of customers or colleagues every day.
What if more of those 600,000 employees were like Ms. Williams? What kind of difference would that make?
Everybody Matters
When it comes to how their employees relate to each other and to the work they do, Everybody Matters serves as an inspiring example of the way things could be.