Three Questions to Quickly Gauge Employee Motivation
In our previous articles, we’ve covered how Vision can be your employee’s guidepost for making decisions and how executive teams can align their strategy with their vision. Now it’s time…
5 Ways Executive Teams Can Align Strategy with Vision
If you are clear on the big mistake that most Executive teams are making, you know that leaders are their most effective when they use the company’s mission and vision statement to make every informed decision- and they encourage employees to do the same. This type of Vision-based decision-making process begins to align the company’s culture to pursue a common goal. So how else can you make sure everyone is working towards the same purpose? (more…)
The Big Mistake Executive Teams are Making
Most Executive Teams assume that employees are connected to the company’s vision statement because it’s shared in Town Halls and on intranet documents. But the big mistake that Executive Teams make is assuming that employees know how to apply that vision statement to how they communicate, collaborate, and make decisions daily.
PlayTank Just Got Way More Valuable for HR Professionals
Team Ziksana put our superhero capes and thinking caps on to take our beloved PlayTank to a new level this June. We partnered with Protector Brewery to bring a not-so-ordinary…
Building Trust at Work Through Play
“Trust is not a default. It is work and it is intentional. It is structured and it is disciplined.” Rex Miller , Author & Culture Change Expert
“We need to build trust in your team to get more done.” Perhaps you’ve heard your Leader say this at some point. It’s easy to say, but hard to do. And you’re not alone.
According to PwC’s Annual Global CEO survey, in 2017, across industries, levels of distrust at work have climbed to 55%. And CEOs aren’t the only ones feeling the tension: one in three employees surveyed don’t trust their manager.
Are Open Plan Offices Good for Productivity?
Jason is an intrapreneur at a local car dealership in San Diego. He deals with brokers on the phone instead of customers in person most of the time, so his work is quite solitary in nature. He and I share this secluded style of work, where we interact with coworkers frequently but the majority of our most productive work is completed by ourselves.
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International Have Fun at Work Day!
My father has been working for a major window and door company just outside the Twin Cities in Minnesota for 18 years. He is a software engineer – a mega geek who for the longest time took a break from looking at a computer screen all day by playing on his phone – looking at another screen. This habit gave his eyes and his mind little retreat from technology and information overload. This left him constantly drained and disengaged at work.
Energy Management in the Workplace
We are driving along, going, and going all day long. There comes a point when we are going to need to stop for gas – to refuel our energy source.…
Mark Hurlburt on Nerd Culture
We at Ziksana Consulting, a creative consulting firm that makes work productive through the science of play, connected with Mark Hurlburt, the current President of Prime Academy and former Chief Strategy Officer of The Nerdery, to hear more about how the unique culture at The Nerdery fuels productivity.
Ziksana @ TedX San Diego
In case you missed us at TEDx San Diego, here is a quick recap.
Five members of the Ziksana Consulting Team– our fearless thought leader and visionary genius Akshay Sateesh, our Research and Development guru Hayden, our savvy and stupendous strategy boss Annie, our epicly awesome designer and get ‘er done champion Courtney, and our captain of content Abbey– hit the streets of San Diego to enliven the time between Ted presenters with playful challenges that identify how people prefer to play.
