Posts by Dr. Geil Browning
Celebrate Your Staff in a Way that Honors Their Preferences
With the holiday season just around the corner, I can’t keep myself from thinking about employee recognition. Saying thank you and showing gratitude are important aspects of the holidays and something that we try to do year-round at Emergenetics®. Positive recognition helps employees feel appreciated, engaged and motivated, and companies with recognition-rich cultures have been…
Read MoreFill the Gap in Your Leadership Pipeline
How confident do you feel in your company’s succession plan? One of the most important aspects of your organization’s longevity is ensuring that you have employees who are ready and able to take on future leadership roles, and surprisingly, only 33 percent of organizations are not presently experiencing a leadership gap. Employees recognize a company’s…
Read MoreMake Time for Personal Reflection
As we conclude our Motivation Monday series featuring ideas from my most recent book Work That Works, I invite you to take part in an exercise that we greatly value at Emergenetics®: personal reflection. Taking time to look back can have a powerful impact on your future. Research conducted at a call center showed that…
Read MoreHow Do Your Generational Values Impact Your Work?
The differences between generations—their values and their approaches to their lives and careers—continue to be a topic of interest for leaders. The concept of generational tenets is the focus of Principle #6 in my book Work That Works entitled, Let Your People Live to Work, Not Work to Live: A Job Is More Than the…
Read MoreApplying the WEapproach to Your Individual Work
Imagine you are about to make a sales call or you are creating a presentation to deliver to your executive team. What is your typical process? Do you take a WEapproach? Whenever you are communicating something to a group of people, you can generally assume that they will have a range of Thinking and Behavioral…
Read MoreFrom the Silent Generation to Gen Z: The Key to Reaching Your Multigenerational Workforce
It seems that just yesterday millennials started making a splash in the workplace, and now we are already welcoming the next generation. With the oldest members of Gen Z starting to enter the workforce and many Americans working past the age of 65, leaders and managers sometimes feel challenged to connect equally with their multigenerational…
Read MoreTap Into the Diversity of Your Team
In my third and final mini-blog on Principle #4: Creating a Meeting of the Minds from my book Work That Works, I invite you to utilize what you’ve learned about who is on your team and how they like to be communicated with to unleash the power of cognitive diversity in your organization. In order…
Read MoreBuild Trust Within Your Team
In my last Motivation Monday blog, I invited you to consider your team’s composition and tendencies as we began to explore Creating a Meeting of the Minds, Principle #4 in my book Work That Works. Today, I encourage you to involve your teammates in this particular activity so you can learn to flex, or act…
Read MoreWho’s On Your Team?
When we talk about the importance of diversity in the workplace at Emergenetics®, there is a good chance we are talking about the cognitive variety. Workplace diversity typically refers to putting individuals of different ages, ethnicities, genders and job levels together, and recently, organizations have begun to consider diversity of thought within their initiatives. Research…
Read MoreWords are Worth Their Weight in Gold
Words carry an incredible influence. Used well, they can inspire, uplift and encourage. However, if words are used without care, they can demotivate or cause team members to feel slighted. As a leader, it is important to understand that the way you speak will have an impact on those you work with. In my book…
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