
re:Work - The Water Cooler
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The Water Cooler is a blog of fresh ideas and findings from organizational leaders and researchers on how they're making work better, shared regularly.
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Innovation can happen anywhere in an organization. Get tips on how to encourage more innovative behavior and grow your people's ability to solve problems in new and creative ways ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Google’s frontline teams needed a new staffing model to better support strategy shifts and employee development. It needed to be scalable and dynamic, so we created a job market, giving employees and managers choices ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
At Google, change is constant. But how we managed and messaged change wasn’t always working. So we developed a simple framework to rethink reorgs and it starts by asking “Do we even need this change ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Capital One’s People Analytics leader explains how his team delivers key insights and rigorous solutions to complex business problems, all while staying on top of the latest HR research ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
The Stanford d.school strives to help people become everyday innovators. Learn how they help their students build the creative confidence to tackle real-life problems in innovative ways ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
What works in research doesn’t often transfer in practice. Learn what Dawn Klinghoffer, Microsoft’s HR Business Insights lead, has to say about navigating the research-practice divide and bringing analytics to the business ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Building a culture of trust can be a powerful way to improve performance. Neuroscientific research shows that trust reduces social frictions and promotes cooperative behavior among colleagues — and that managers can create high-trust, high-performance teams ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Leaders get frustrated when they can’t just point in one direction and get everyone to follow; teams get equally frustrated with inconsistent, unprioritized goals. OKRs (Objective & Key Results) help leaders and teams get aligned and innovate more quickly ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
Failures are an inevitable part of innovation and can provide great data to make products, services, and organizations better. Google uses “postmortems” to capture and share the lessons of failure ..read more
re:Work - The Water Cooler
4y ago
According to IDEO, the leaders of organizations who successfully build innovative cultures exhibit the same five behaviors ..read more