Diagnosing The Workplace: Not Just An HR Podcast

This episode touches on the theme of Developing Leaders. In this episode, we explore 3 common behaviors that create subtle, gradual culture erosion: Workplace Incivility: which means lower-intensity discourteous, disrespectful, dismissive, undermining, exclusionary, or otherwise inappropriate workplace conduct that is inconsistent with reasonable standards of mutual respect.Undermining Behaviour: which means conduct that inappropriately diminishes or interferes with another person's credibil...

This episode touches on the theme of Strengthen Culture. In this episode, we dig into the reality and accuracy behind the often-quoted statement "Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast" . We look at 4 scenarios of combinations of Strategy and Culture and get into the risks and opportunities that exist in each. Our prescription for this episode is to understand the role and dynamics that both culture and strategy have in our workplace. They both affect risk, profitability, longevity, and sc...

This episode touches on the theme of Developing Leaders. In this episode, we explore 3 common causes of employee performance issues: Skill Gap: The employee wants to perform but lacks the knowledge, capability, experience, or training to do so consistently.Will Gap: The employee has the capability but lacks the desire, commitment, or motivation to apply it. Build Gap: The problem isn't the employee. The system around them was poorly designed.Our prescription for this episode is to under...

This episode touches on the theme of Practical Psychology. In this episode, we explore the psychology behind many of the struggles that come with organizational change. We dig into the expected and predictable stress and mental low points that often come with large-scale organizational shifts. Our prescription for this episode is to understand that these elements (The Valley of Despair, Change Fatigue/Change Saturation, and The Zone of Ambiguity) are a normal part of change, even when it is...

This episode touches on the theme of Strengthen Culture. In this episode, we welcome everyone to Season 5 and outline what changes we plan to make to our discussions this season. Spoiler Alert: we are going to start to dig more into organizational change and provide people with free tools and resources to help make a difference in their workplace. Our prescription for this episode is to understand the different types of organizational change that exist everywhere, and to understand the reali...