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Empowered Teams Need Enabling Leadership
Recently I've been seeing some pushback against the buzz around employee empowerment. Like any management trend, there is a valid critique to be voiced when an organisation talks about empowering their employees, but in reality doesn't follow through and just jumps on...
Creating Psychological Safety in Hybrid Teams
In 2012, Google published the results of Project Aristotle - an in-depth analysis of the conditions needed for a team to be successful. It has led team leaders to re-evaluate the culture and environment they create. Organisations are discussing how to leverage the...
Making the time to work on the team, not just in one
This week, our curator Laura-Jane Parker reflects on the importance of making time to develop your teams ways of working for greater resilience. At Post*Shift, our mission is to help organisations transform themselves into 21st century businesses. To do this well, we...
Transparency and algorithmic sharing in the digital workplace
In this week's newsletter, Lee Bryant shares some links relating to the emerging debate about the transparency and role of algorithmic sharing of information in the digital workplace.In the wake of last week’s Facebook / CA furore, people are starting to question the...
The Facebook scandal and why we need to get better at social system design
Like many people who were advocates for social tools in the early 2000’s, I regret that the comfortable world of collegiate, respectful debate and empathetic connection we enjoyed as early bloggers morphed into the dystopian world of Facebook manipulation, /b/,...
Designing scalable learning for the digital age
Organisations are under pressure to be more responsive and agile than ever. When it comes to learning and development, this has meant a shift to digital and blended programmes to build the capabilities necessary for the 21st-century workforce. The benefits of digital...
#IWD2018: Women cannot #pushforprogress alone
At Post*Shift, we are all passionate about the fight for gender equality, and we like to use International Women’s Day each year to shine a light on the issues, reflect on progress and - in true P*S style - share practical ways in which we can all try to influence...
Fostering the conditions for innovation
Social, collaborative innovation, powered by the wisdom of the workforce is like a golden goose - it can produce great value, but only if the conditions are just right. You need the right workforce, motivated and aligned in just the right way. Innovation communities...
The Cadence of Accountability
One of the first changes a team notices when making the move from traditional ways of working to something more agile and flexible, is how often the words accountable, responsible and ownership crop up in team discussions. Often used interchangeably, they soon become...
To get the most from your team, give them purpose
Speed is unarguably a competitive advantage for organisations in the digital age. But this can lead to entrenched, outdated thinking and ways of working. But even the best teams struggle with complacency if the org culture and management practices are not designed to...
Business agile is a system, not a methodology
An increasing number of non-technology projects are set up to run agile (small 'a'). They recognise the futility of trying to replicate pure Agile or Scrum projects and instead need to pick and choose the ways of working and elements that fit their needs (see Lee's...