As I have interacted with people over the past months, one consistent topic tends to emerge; the phenomena of people leaving their current jobs. Labeled as the ‘great resignation’ it seems almost every organization has felt the impact. The great resignation is a result, a consequence of something, it is not just randomly happening. What that something can be described … Read More
The Team Management Wheel and Virtual Work
Early on in 2020 as the pandemic took hold we published a few documents focusing on the models of the Team Management Profile (TMP) and virtual work. Our small team here at TMS Americas has been virtual for about 18 years now and we thought if we captured some of our experiences through the lens of the TMP, people could … Read More
The More or Less of 2016
Over Christmas we went to a few movies and while I liked all of them, two kind of jumped out from the screen and into this blog post; The Big Short and Room. You could say there is a lot about excess and scarcity in both films; a lot about more and less and what that might mean to people. In … Read More
The Sky Will Be Dark This Time
I’ll be heading off next week for what has become a yearly camping trip with my eldest son to the wilderness on Algonquin Park in mid Ontario. It seems I am drawn to write a post about this each year and this year seems to be no different…. When you are deep in the woods and perhaps the only people … Read More
A Caution in the Search for Character
This post was originally published in the TMS Learning Exchange. It’s a bit longer than our normal posts…. In the aftermath of the 2008 semi collapse of investment capitalism and the ensuing and continuing global recession there is a growing trend calling on the need for ‘more character’ from those who we see as leaders in our organizations. Business schools … Read More
The Scariest Halloween Costumes Your Boss Can Wear!
As Halloween approaches just imagine the scariest costume your boss could show up in if she or he came to your workspace asking for treats. Perhaps they might be totally scary showing up with no costume at all but here are a few that we think instill shivers of terror into most of us who inhabit the land of the … Read More
Passion – Choice or Destination?
There’s a lot of talk in the OD world about passion and doing what you have a passion for. So just imagine what it might be like if everyone in the world took this sage advice and went looking to find the work they had this wonderful passion for. You’re probably now wondering where your next meal is going to … Read More
Uncertainty and Shrinking Conversations
In March 2012 we wrote the post Motivation in an Environment of Uncertainty . We looked at the nature of organizational conversations during uncertain times and how those conversations could sustain the choices people make to be motivated. Unfortunately quite often the opposite happens in organizations. During uncertain times conversations begin to shrink, both in quantity and quality. We are … Read More
Motivation in an Environment of Uncertainty
Imagine you are considering a new job. One of the key performance objectives of the job is to motivate the staff that will be working for you. You are told that there is no money in the budget for bonuses and in fact some salary reduction will likely take place. There is a chance of downsizing and it is unclear … Read More
More Interaction, More Change
Most current perspectives on the future of organizations will begin with comments on the accelerating pace of change. The consequential generation of ideas for dealing with these phenomena focuses on leadership, management, technology, character, relationship and just about any other topic of interest. I think it is very important to make sure we scratch hard at the surface of these ideas and … Read More
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