Our personal and professional lives have been immensely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course this raises innumerable questions. One question we’ve been getting from practitioners in the MRG community:…
…experiencing the weariness of front-line workers, most of us would acknowledge we too are weary. In the words of psychologist Adam Grant, we are languishing. So, if we are feeling…
…to display a collection of people and relationship skills: they communicate efficiently; they demonstrate a good degree of empathy; they seek others’ viewpoints; and they’re not forceful or overly assertive….
…it is an entire career. How do leaders effectively manage a workforce that is so varied and provides such an essential service? Not surprisingly, people skills are especially important. These…
…are other behaviors that when used in the right combination, can lead to higher levels of effectiveness in the field. We just need to find out what combination work in…
…factors in the coming years as we collect more data. Q: When you looked at the research by generation, did you control for job level (i.e. line, mid-manager, senior leader,…
…vary greatly, and each approach comes with unique benefits; and 2) There’s an impressive sense of urgency from all who do this type of work – a compulsion to continue…
…and being comfortable with change. At times, I find myself even pushing for it. Recently, I’ve been trying to fundamentally understand MRG’s customer base to understand what is needed now…
…get the whole rich, complex picture, you need to step back and look at what those dots do together. Motivations don’t exist in a vacuum. They interact with each other,…
After hearing great things about it, I attended the Leading Edge Consortium (LEC) last month. This is an annual, 2-day meeting organized by SIOP during which a single topic is…
