A multi-generational workforce is the norm for most organizations. Researchers say that statistically, the generational labels–‘boomer,’ ‘millennial,’ etc–do not hold up, and that differences within a generational cohort, are larger than differences between generational cohorts. In the actual workplace, however, the challenges and opportunities are very real. Here are some ideas–the first in a series–of…

I have a proposal for how you can communicate more effectively, starting today.  It involves a subtle but important shift in how you think about communication itself:  Instead of thinking of communication as the sending and receiving of messages, think of it as a collaborative act, where you and those you’re communicating with have a…

June, 2021 Recently I was invited to be co-author on a paper on ‘generativity.’  Briefly, generativity refers to creating and caring for future generations.  Here are a few notes from that effort. Origins and meaning.  The construct of generativity originates with psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, in the 1950s.  According to Erikson, during life, a…

Your success at solving problems, depends on how well you frame them in the first place. Framing is the creative activity of experimenting with, and deciding on, what you choose to treat as problematic.

Problem Framing For a pragmatic approach to managing and leading, problem framing is of central importance. Elsewhere, I’ve written in detail about problem framing and re-framing, or see the brief overview in the box to the right. But for this post, the first in a series, the purpose is different. If you routinely employ problem…

Here is a brief overview of Emotional Intelligence, or at least my understanding of it, created for a client presentation in November, 2020

What if our top students were judged to be so, not because of what they ‘knew,’ but because of what they had shown they could ‘do’?