Tag: Shawn Murphy

Does your Workplace have Pockets of Excellence?

No organization is perfect, but there are most likely “pockets of excellence” at your company. These are the employees or departments that stand out among the rest. How can you foster these pockets of excellence and help them spread throughout the business?

Clarity and Belonging—More Ways to Create Pockets of Excellence

by Shawn Murphy In yesterday’s Advisor, Shawn Murphy, the CEO and founder of Switch & Shift, an organization dedicated to the advancement of human-centered organizational practices and leadership, described “pockets of excellence” within organizations and how to foster them. Today Murphy discusses three more ways to create—and grow—pockets of excellence.

Create Pockets of Excellence at Your Workplace

by Shawn Murphy No organization is perfect, but there are most likely “pockets of excellence” at your company. These are the employees or departments that stand out among the rest. How can you foster these pockets of excellence and help them spread throughout the business?

Creating Pockets of Excellence

Sixty-five percent of employees would rather have a new boss than a pay increase because of their dissatisfaction with the workplace. The workplace is going through an identity crisis. On the one hand, it wants to hang on to the traditional mindset that has helped build powerful businesses. Yet, there is plenty of evidence showing […]

Creating Pockets of Excellence

Sixty-five percent of employees would rather have a new boss than a pay increase because of their dissatisfaction with the workplace. The workplace is going through an identity crisis. On the one hand, it wants to hang on to the traditional mindset that has helped build powerful businesses. Yet, there is plenty of evidence showing […]

The Optimistic Workplace—Avoid These Missteps

In his new book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, management and leadership consultant Shawn Murphy tackles the challenge of creating just such an optimistic organization and argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment.

Strategies for Healing Destructive Management

Yesterday’s Advisor presented the six symptoms of destructive management from Switch & Shift CEO and founder Shawn Murphy. Today, we present some of Murphy’s strategies for working towards a cure for these management woes. Murphy has 20 years’ experience working to cultivate optimism in workplace climates as both a Fortune 100 company insider and an […]

The Disease of Destructive Management—6 Symptoms to Look Out For

Destructive management is like a plague on a productive workplace—would you know the symptoms? In today’s Training Daily Advisor, we learn about the top signs that management is killing morale from Shawn Murphy, CEO and founder of Switch & Shift, an organization dedicated to the advancement of human-centered organizational practices and leadership. In many workplaces […]