Designed Thinking Seminars

 Power to Influence Minds

 Phone: 866-718-9995

Last update: 1/31/07
Employee Behavior

Today’s cultural melting pot brings with it a level of diversity that has never before existed. Each person brings with them a certain skill set and their own way of processing and communicating ideas. This brings great opportunities to your business and new challenges for your employees, who must navigate through each person’s unique differences.

Employees are expected to conform to a company’s guidelines and still push the envelope of innovation. If they can’t, they are held stagnant in positions that may frustrate both employee and employer. Moving principles should include:

  • Understanding of the advantages cultural diversity
  • Recognizing and appreciating different communication styles
  • Increasing flexibility in behaviors and communications

PROMOTING SUCCESS

There is a belief that if someone succeeds in one type of job they will succeed in another, unrelated, job. It’s not uncommon to have a top sales representative become a marketing manager, or an extremely efficient assistant be promoted to run a new department. Unfortunately, being good at one thing does not always equate to being good at another. Businesses spend millions of dollars each year unsuccessfully promoting employees into in which positions they are doomed to fail. It happens all the time when:

  • Creative people are put in a position that requires only manual dexterity
  • A people-oriented person is placed in an isolated back room
  • Someone who requires order in his life is put in a position that requires flexibility
  • Management positions are given to those lacking people skills
  • A detailed-oriented job is given to someone who hates details

Being able to identify unique traits individuals possess is not a luxury, it’s a necessity in today’s workplace. Learn to advance employees whose behavioral skills best suit the qualifications you need. While there are other things to consider, understanding your staff’s behavioral tendencies can lower employee frustration, improve morale, and increase productivity.

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Designed Thinking Seminars

 Encino CA 91316

 866-718-9995