Category: Leading Thoughts
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Skills Leaders Can Learn From Musicians – Leading Thoughts
Musicians are highly disciplined, skilled, and independently motivated individuals capable of learning and performing well in stressful, fast-paced, and competitive environments. Now, I’m sure many of you nodded your heads at the above statement but here’s the thing — though this is a worst-kept secret and universally recognized as true by those who understand music…
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What Drives Us – Leading Thoughts
In a previous post of mine talking about employee engagement and disengagement, I cited both a reason for engagement and disengagement that had to do with intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. For purposes of that post I opted not to go into detail, however I still wanted to provide deeper insight on what exactly the role…
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Top 3 Reasons for Employee Engagement and Disengagement – Leading Thoughts
Understanding what drives employee engagement, or what hinders it, is a critical skill for any organizational leader. During a change management course in my graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, I was asked to identify three reasons why employees feel engaged at work, and three reasons why they don’t. While the question was simple, the answers…
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When Change Shakes the Foundation of Privilege – Leading Thoughts
Lucretia Mott, a pioneering abolitionist and suffragist, famously said, “One should expect resistance with any great change. It shakes the very foundation of privilege.” But what did she really mean by “shaking the foundation of privilege,” and why does change often trigger such strong resistance? Privilege, how I’ve come to understand it, is the concept…
Jennifer E. Walls 