Category: Leadership

How To Build A Strong Positive Workplace Culture

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership
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‘The objective of a high-performance culture is to maximize adaptability.‘- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Adaptive oraganizations require adaptive individuals– people with high levels of creativity, problem-solving, and persistence, and citizenships.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Culture can’t be managed by chance.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must share a common view of the problem and a common perspective on the solution.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must emotionally feel the difference between their current state and their desired future state.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must have the ability to interact with one another to enable collective action.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘At each rung of the ladder, people should have more opportunities to expand their expertise.‘- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘A managerial promotion should not be a reward given to the top performer. It should be a path pursued by those who find play in learning how to manage and coach.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Your people can either fight each other to survive of fight their competitors to win; your culture drives the choice.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

How To Change The Way You Manage People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership
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‘One of the laws of change: As soon as you try something new, you’ll get resistance.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Ask one question at a time. Just one question at a time.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Call them forward to learn, improve, and grow, rather than to just get something sorted out.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘And what else?’ is the quickest and easiest way to uncover and create new possibilities.‘- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Focus on the real problem, not the first problem.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Stick to questions starting with ‘what.’– Michael Bungay Stanier

‘If you’re not trying to fix things, you don’t need the backstory.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Get comfortable with silence.‘- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Saying yes more slowly means being willing to stay curious before committing.‘- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Your job is to create the space for those learning moments.’- Michael Bungay Stanier

‘Use every channel to ask a question.‘- Michael Bungay Stanier