Curated Video
Masters of Feedback: Rick Maurer - Feedback Toolkit
Rick Maurer’s Feedback Toolkit is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to equip themselves with knowledge and techniques for a wide variety of feedback scenarios. Rick Maurer is clearly a master of feedback.
Curated Video
Ryan & Deci: Self Determination Theory (SDT) - Content Models of Motivation
Ryan & Deci are the founders of Self Determination Theory (SDT). It's possibly the most substantial modern body of research on motivation. As such, it is essential for modern managers to understand the basics.
Curated Video
Work Orientation Theory: John Goldthorpe and How Attitudes affect Motivation
John Goldthorpe and his colleagues offer us a sociological model of workplace motivation: Work Orientation Theory. Goldthorpe's theory is culturally rooted in 1960s Britain. But I do think the principles underpinning it are worth bearing...
Curated Video
Critical Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: The Cases For and Against
Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...
Curated Video
Organizational Power: What is Power?
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that: ‘life is a search after power’. If that is true, what is it we are searching for? We need to start our exploration of power in organizations by understanding what is power?
Curated Video
Frederick Herzberg and the Two-factor Theory - Content Models of Motivation
Motivation is not the opposite of de-motivation. That's the conclusion that Frederick Herzberg came to. Rather, he recognized there are two sets of factors: Motivators, and Hygiene factors. In this video, we examine Frederick Herzberg's...
Curated Video
The Fundamentals of Motivation - Motives, Drives, and being Blocked
In this video, let's start our solid content on workplace motivation with the fundamentals of motivation: - Drives - Motives - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation - What happens when we find ourselves blocked
Curated Video
Team Building Events: Why, What, and How?
Team building is an important part of getting the best from your team. This is a thorough primer for any manager who needs to get team building right.
Curated Video
How to Build Rapport (Develop your Charisma)
Becoming likeable and having the charisma to attract people to you depends in large part on your ability to build rapport with people. So, in this video, I'll discuss how to build rapport.. and how not to.
Curated Video
Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Experiment: Process of Model of Motivation
The Hawthorne Experiment - conducted by Elton Mayo - is one of the classic experiments that led to an important part of our understanding of motivation. It leads to a simple, yet fundamental, process model of how motivation works in the...
Curated Video
Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs - Content Model of Motivation
Abraham Maslow' Hierarchy of Needs is possibly the best known model of motivation. As a motivation theory, the hierarchy of needs is useful, but probably over-used.
Curated Video
Clayton Alderfer and ERG Theory - Content Models of Motivation
Clayton Alderfer created a variation on the best-known needs theory of motivation: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Alderfer's model is known as ERG Theory. ERG stands for the three primary needs that Alderfer identified: - Existence -...
Curated Video
Finding Balance: Tips for Relaxation and Well-Being in a Busy World
This video emphasizes the importance of finding balance in a fast-paced world by disconnecting from work, spending quality time with loved ones, and taking time for personal relaxation. It highlights the benefits of simple activities...
Curated Video
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
The Gilded Age was a period of unprecedented industrial and economic growth in the United States – but were the men at the helm captains of industry or robber barons out for their own?
Curated Video
Dorothy Bolden: Unionizing Domestic Workers
Civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden made it her mission to empower America’s working class. Her activism empowered domestic workers across the nation – and created noticeable change in the workplace for thousands of Black women.
Curated Video
Labor Unions
The video Video Introduction “Labor Unions” explains how labor unions formed in the United States and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of labor unions.
Organizational Communication Channel
Karl Weick Partial Inclusion
Karl Weick's Partial Inclusion is a useful concept to explain the various degrees to which organizational employees are committed to their workplaces. Weick explained this in his 1979 book, The Social Psychology of Organizing.
Curated Video
How to be flexible at workplace
This video highlights the importance of flexibility in the business world, and how employees can develop this skill. The speaker discusses the ever-changing parameters of business processes, technical know-how, and client expectations,...
Curated Video
How to collaborate efficiently at work
This video explores the challenges that arise when employees with different skill sets and interests come together to form semi-autonomous teams. It discusses the difference between teamwork and collaboration and how organizations can...
Curated Video
Using ASL in the Workplace | Communicate With Deaf | Profession Signs
Do you have a deaf employee or deaf co-worker? In this video we go over vocabulary and how to communicate and give instruction to those who use American Sign Language as their main form of communication.
Curated Video
Handling challenges - key rules
This video provides guidance on how to approach and overcome workplace challenges. The video emphasizes the importance of handling conflicts by peaceful means and provides eight tips for overcoming workplace challenges, including...
Curated Video
How to influence the team
This video explains what influence is and why it is important for leaders to have influence over their team. It also provides practical tips for developing a trusting environment and positive relationships in order to become an...
Curated Video
How important is authenticity?
This video is about the importance of being authentic as a leader. The speaker also provides six tips for being authentic at work, including exploring your values, changing your habits, being self-aware, being vulnerable, being...