Here’s a quiz: Which of the following tools is most powerful for motivating employees? Recognition for good work Incentives Interpersonal support Clear goals Support for making progress in work If you are like 95 percent of managers who responded to a Harvard study, the answer will surprise you. Most managers believe that recognition for good [...] [...]
If you have moved from one organization to another anytime in your career, you know that every company has its own unique culture. Culture is defined as the beliefs, values, norms, and attitudes that form a group’s patterns of thought and action. Put another way, culture can be thought of as “unwritten rules about the [...] [...]
How do you change an entire culture? Especially if it happens to involve 5,000 very busy healthcare employees spread out over multiple hospitals, outpatient facilities and support offices? Adventist Midwest Health did it by starting with simple, concrete actions that could be implemented and talked about by every employee. Adventist had always been focused on [...] [...]