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Good Morning HR Podcast Interview of Randal Weidenaar, Founder of VP Culture
There’s one thing that motivates people, and it activates serotonin in our brains. Traditional management practice has over-relied upon dopamine, perhaps even “hacking” dopaminergic responses to the point that these management practices stop working. Goals and rewards are fantastic, but they can be over-relied upon and end up working in reverse.
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Harvard Business Review: What Is Psychological Safety?
Amy Gallo of HBR does a great job simplifying the importance, impact, and how to implement psychological safety. Read article
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Scholarly Article, Psychological Safety: Cornell University – Edmonson
Published in 1999, this article still establishes the important connection between psychological safety and performance. Psychological safety impacts learning behavior, which impacts long term performance. Read Article
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Why the UWES is a Great Tool for Measuring Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a key factor for organizational success, as it reflects the degree to which employees are committed, motivated and involved in their work. However, measuring employee engagement is not an easy task, as different definitions and instruments exist in the literature. One of the most widely used and validated tools for assessing employee…
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Building Psychologically Safe Workplaces
Randal Weidenaar of VP Culture unpacks how to lead psychologically safe workplaces. Psychologically safe workplaces result in employee engagement, productivity and ultimately people thrive in safe environments. How do we create these types of workplaces? Randal unpacks 4 key techniques to build psychological safety. He also details why this is so important to our wellbeing…
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Sam Altman Firing: How It Will Affect Company Culture at OpenAI
Any firing has the ability to send shockwaves of insecurity through your culture. Especially when the founder and CEO is fired for no significant reason. It can result in the value of each employee being reduced to a number and an outcome, and each employee can be waiting for their number to come up. A…
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Transcript – Marshall Henley of Beza Performance interviews Randal Weidenaar of VP Culture
Randal Weidenaar, organizational psychologist and the founder of VP Culture, was interviewed by performance consultant, Marshall Henley, President of Beza Performance in 2022. The discussion led to a question regarding the potential for disruption when the primary focus is on valuing people vs. lagging indicators of performance, like financial results. Click here for to start…
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Gartner: Employees Seek Personal Value and Purpose at Work. Be Prepared to Deliver.
“Bottom line: People seek purpose in their lives — and that includes work. The more an employer limits those things that create this sense of purpose, the less likely employees will stay at their positions. The era of the employment contract, where a worker provided services purely in exchange for monetary compensation, is over. Now,…
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