UPD Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2024

When I founded UPD in 2005, the mission was simple: help build better, higher performing, and more resilient organizations. And yet another study links “psychological safety” within organizations to their ability to handle unique challenges. 2005 was an interesting year.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to the American Psychological Association, when teamed together correctly, about 10% of the workforce can account for about 30% of productivity. Are you creating the psychological team safety required to develop strong interpersonal relationships?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2023

High Functioning Leadership Teams Matter We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that high functioning leadership teams are crucial to an organization’s sustained success, resilience, and growth. It’s not just about being free from fear of backlash when sharing ideas.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Employee Resilience Matters In our leadership action learning programs , we define employee resilience as the ability to respond in a healthy way to pressure, to deal with difficult situations, and to overcome challenges. We know from change management simulation data that employee resilience is important.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2022

Recent events have shown the importance of not only accepting ambiguity but embracing it, and building it into modern systems to make them more robust and resilient. Many of these shifts revolve around human psychology and the extent to which seeing the person behind the professional is increasingly appropriate in the workplace.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, our leadership simulation assessment found that change partnering is a critical skill that elevates leaders and teams to new heights by fostering change resilience and alignment. And because employees tend to resist change, high levels of psychological team safety and trust are required to openly talk through the vision for change.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As workers attain goals, their self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism improve. Positive psychology at work: Psychological capital and thriving as pathways to employee engagement. According to goal-setting theory, difficult yet attainable goals provide motivation for workers to improve performance (Locke & Latham, 2019).

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Enter the concept of how to leverage change friction to change behaviors at work — a notion rooted in behavioral economics and organizational psychology. They can also model and reward a culture of experimentation and learning to increase change resilience and agility.

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Consultants' Consultant

JUNE 13, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Psychological safety is a really important element in building resilient teams. Here are some quotes: Psychological safety is the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up […]. The post Psychological Safety appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Consultants' Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For a little while in the 2000s resilience was the word of the day. Now in 2018 the buzzword is psychological safety. The first time I strongly encountered psychological safety was reading Culture Code earlier this year. […]. In the 90’s the buzzword was empowerment.

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Consultants' Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For a little while in the 2000s resilience was the word of the day. Now in 2018 the buzzword is psychological safety. The first time I strongly encountered psychological safety was reading Culture Code earlier this year. […]. In the 90’s the buzzword was empowerment.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

link] Performance Accelerator 2: Organizational Change Resiliency. Organizational change resilience is responding productively to significant disruptive change and transforming challenges into opportunities. One theme with organizations that are resilient amid change is sharing data with decision-makers openly. 2009, July 22).

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Create a psychologically safe space for team members to honestly voice their concerns and fears without fear of judgment. To mitigate the fallout while making sure that unreasonable targets don’t negatively impact the health or productivity of you or your team: Understand the Impact on Your Team It can be easy to overreact.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about returning to work after her husband’s death, and Wharton management and psychology professor Adam Grant discusses what the research says about resilience. In this joint interview, they talk about how to build resilience in yourself, your team, and your organization.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Some Cultural Requirements to Support Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned Open Communication Central to sustaining organizational and executive team alignment is fostering an environment of open communication and psychological team safety.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. You’re More Resilient Than You Give Yourself Credit For. How we manage stressful situations plays a huge role in determining how resilient we are. You and Your Team Series.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It requires a deep understanding of consumer psychology, market dynamics, and the latest advertising trends. Risk Mitigation : Expert consultants assist in identifying and mitigating risks, enhancing a company’s resilience and adaptability.

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Nash Consulting

JULY 20, 2023

Part 3, in next month's newsletter, will focus on specific behaviors to practice during conflicts to achieve optimal solutions and develop cultures of trust, respect, and psychological safety. This mindset promotes resilience and a focus on finding solutions and learning from experience, rather than protecting ourselves.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 11, 2016

The literature on positive psychology is totally in favour of the optimist, and with good reason. By explaining away defeat, the research has shown that a person will be much more resilient, which means they will be more likely to try again next time.

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The Source

APRIL 2, 2019

But through the process you develop both resilience and a thirst for learning and the experience is something that most elite athletes will take with them to any job.”. …

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

John Cacioppo, a leading expert on loneliness and coauthor of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection , emphasizes its tremendous impact on psychological and physical health and longevity. Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. You and Your Team Series. David Kopans.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

Change takes acceptance and requires organizational patience, persistence, and resilience. Encourage and Reinforce Desired Behaviors Psychologically, positive reinforcement refers to rewarding and reinforcing desirable behavior to increase the likelihood that the desired behavior will be repeated in the future.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

Resilience, defined as the psychological capacity to adapt to stressful circumstances and to bounce back from adverse events, is a highly sought-after personality trait in the modern workplace. But could too much resilience be a bad thing, just like too much muscle mass can be a bad thing — i.e., putting a strain on the heart?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Resilience Resilience is a fundamental outcome of executive coaching. In the process of overcoming these barriers, leaders build resilience and self-confidence. “It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” — Denis Waitley. What do you get from executive coaching?

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Halo Psych

MAY 16, 2022

Caroline Webb, How to have a good day A useful psychological theory for leaders to know is Self Determination Theory , by Richard Ryan and Edward Deci. Second, one of the most effective ways to grow your resilience is through coaching, followed by some form of training. Want to work with me?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We investigated learning as a stress buffer because learning helps workers build valuable instrumental and psychological resources. Psychologically, taking time to reflect on what we know and learn new things helps us develop feelings of competence and self-efficacy (a sense of being capable of achieving goals and doing more).

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The Management Centre

MARCH 30, 2021

With many organisations looking at how to implement the latest psychological thinking into their work, from neuroscience to behavioural economics, it’s also worth remembering to develop EI as a way to unleash potential and develop further. But it also doesn’t seem to get the attention it deserves. Do you really need it?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

He knows the results of the tech giant’s massive two-year study on team performance , which revealed that the highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. We become more open-minded, resilient, motivated, and persistent when we feel safe.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

This can have a profound effect on our psychological well-being. Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. You’re More Resilient Than You Give Yourself Credit For. You and Your Team Series. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. You’re More Resilient Than You Give Yourself Credit For. You and Your Team Series. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan. David Kopans. Andy Molinsky. Value time, money, and resources.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife. Being challenged — sometimes severely — is part of what activates resilience as a skill set. Building Resilience. Insight Center.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2022

Resiliency. Journal of Managerial Psychology. However, beyond the obvious benefit of reducing tension, humor translates to business results. Numerous studies link positive humor with many individual, team, and organizational benefits, including: Job satisfaction. Engagement. Improved team cohesion. Communication. Creativity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. We can’t just print resilience the way countries print money. All of which, of course, lead to greater personal resilience. Building Resilience. But we should. Insight Center.

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Comatch

MAY 26, 2023

According to Professor Carol Dweck , Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, we all have parts of both: a fixed and a growth mindset. And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Our findings , combined with our other research on identity and resilience , suggest that female engineers experience stress from subtle and not so subtle cues that their skills and their work are not valued within the profession. But we also identified important resilience strategies women can use to overcome it. .”

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 15, 2018

But faith is much more than self-esteem or positive psychology. These skills (resilience, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence) are career and leadership skills that the mainstream is only starting to recognize and implement in training. We don’t use the word very much at work due to its religious connotations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In our research , published in Psychological Science , we found that people vary in these mindsets. A growth mindset of interest may help promote this kind of resilience. We wanted to understand why some people are more likely to reach across disciplines than others. Can a growth mindset of interest be cultivated?

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