What are Human-Centered Organizations?

Model showing the five elements of the human-centered organization

I thought I was going to cry. My new boss just informed me that she was changing my assignment. My new home base would be a field location an hour and a half drive from my home. Moreover, she was giving me a task that I thought was deeply unethical. I raised objections, but she shot me down. You can do this or you can quit, she told me.

I quit. I moved on to a job where I felt more supported by and aligned with my boss. I was lucky to find that job. In a recent webinar led by Donna Hicks, the writer of Dignity at Work, she shared that 80% of employees polled had identified the lack of psychological safety as a primary concern in their workplaces.

Beat the Conference Blahs

UnConference Format Listening

It’s Day Two of the convention and my body aches from sitting in one place for so long. I’ve heard experts tell me what to do and how to do it. I’ve seen ten PowerPoint templates and seven videos. I’ve been promised the Next Big Thing. What I haven’t been is inspired. Or even very engaged.

Too many conferences suffer from the assumption that the best way to use people’s time is to subject them to elaborately designed presentations. After seeing a PowerPoint, we may be able to retell one or two of the best practices Company X used. But can we take those ideas and use them to make a difference?

Measuring the Intangible through Organizational Networks

There are many ways to evaluate culture, collaboration, employee morale, team performance, and the impact of restructuring. But it’s difficult to measure all five at once without over-stressing the organization. The National Braille Press successfully used organizational networks and network analysis to evaluate its progress and identify simple but effective improvement actions. Read National Braille Press White Paper to find out how they did it.

Is your strategy stuck in the 20th century?

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