by Jonathan Silk | Nov 16, 2018 | Organizational Development, Team Leadership
This is the third post in our 4-part series about whole-brain thinking with a focus on the L2 thinking style. As mentioned in the previous posts on the L1 and R1 thinking styles, we use all quadrants of our brain to think but each of us has our cognitive style, a...
by Jonathan Silk | Nov 1, 2018 | Organizational Development, Team Leadership
This is the first of a four part series on whole brain thinking intended to support the idea that recognizing, understanding and leveraging unique thinking styles, often results in a group of people, a team that thrives as a whole. Awareness of the differences in...
by Jonathan Silk | Sep 12, 2018 | Organizational Development
Are you hiring the best people? In our consulting practice, advising small to medium size companies on organizational design and development, we often witness organizations stumble in their hiring practices. Not because they don’t want to hire great people, it is...
by Jonathan Silk | Sep 3, 2018 | Organizational Development
In this blog article I want to spend a little time talking about purpose, which I see as the key to engagement and commitment. Purpose, engagement, and commitment. These words that tend to make some men and women run away. Fast! But not good leaders. Good leaders seek...
by Jonathan Silk | Aug 8, 2018 | Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Development, Organizational Development
Leadership, or the lack thereof, plays a major role in establishing bonds among teams, as well as with other departments and workgroups in the workplace. In his book Organizational Culture and Leadership, Social Psychologist Edgar Schein writes about the...
by Jonathan Silk | Jul 19, 2018 | Organizational Development, Team Leadership
“When leaders have imagination and courage, then success follows.” ~ Robert I. Sutton Scaling Up Excellence Leaders define organizational excellence. They do so by having a clear, concise picture of what it looks like and then thoughtfully designing a path by which to...