Oxytocin, trust, motivation and employee engagement
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th March 2017 Introduction and a caveat There seems to be a real wave of articles and seminars on the relationship between various hormones, mental health, and our performance at...
View ArticleSimple tips for giving an effective ‘pep’ talk
By Elisabeth Goodman, 12th July 2017 The Science of Pep Talks, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2017 I wrote in a recent RiverRhee newsletter about Inspirational Leadership, and posted a LinkedIn...
View ArticleTelling stories at work
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2017 Why tell stories at work? I first heard about the power of using stories at work, in the context of sharing knowledge and building learning and understanding, in...
View ArticleDefining a positive vision for change
By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th December 2017 First define a clear and compelling vision In my RiverRhee and CILIP on-site courses on managing change, and in my publication “The Effective Team’s Change...
View ArticleStorytelling for business (Part 2)
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th May 2018 My Knowledge Management colleague from my days with NetIKX , Stephen Dale, recently alerted us to John and Joann Girard and Co’s new book “Knowledge Management...
View ArticleOrganisational awareness – combining intellectual and emotional intelligence
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2018 Booklet number 7 in Daniel Goleman et al’s “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” is entitled ‘Organizational Awareness”. As with the previous booklets...
View ArticleRecognising and responding to employees’ receptiveness to change
By Elisabeth Goodman, 19th June 2019 Victim, survivor and navigator mindsets in change – based on the work of Richard McKnight. Illustrations by Nathaniel Spain in my book “The Effective Team’s Change...
View ArticleWhy clarity of purpose is so important for both effective leadership and...
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th October 2019 According to W. Bennis, “Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.” Clarity of purpose is one topic where these...
View ArticleThe manager as coach: helping your team find new meaning
By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th July 2020 The pandemic is by no means over, and everyone is experiencing it in different ways and at different paces. Whether your team has just kept going, somehow, or is...
View ArticleRelating an organisation’s “change power” to employee engagement
By Elisabeth Goodman, 12th September 2021 It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on anything other than coaching skills and Neurodiversity, as these are the areas I am most focused on at the moment....
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