Schenk Consulting Group
  • About
    • Philosophy
    • Lisa Schenk, Ph.D.
    • The Group
    • Clients & Testimonials
  • Services
    • Coaching
    • Consulting
    • Training >
      • Working Together Remotely
  • Resources
    • Personal Presence Practice
    • Focus on Strengths
    • Women Lead
    • Current Programs
    • Links
    • Client Toolkit
  • Work-X
  • Contact
  • Store
  • Personal Presence Offerings
  • Break-Thru Circles

work-x

Experimenting with what is possible at work

See below

All Work and no care make for a toxic society

10/16/2015

0 Comments

 
Well, I am way behind on my New York Times reading, but I just came across this article from September by Anne-Marie Slaughter.  The gist of it is that our organizations need to change dramatically in order for our society to continue to thrive.  The voracious machine of competition and efficiency inherent in so many American companies has created more than an epidemic of stress related disease, but threatens the underpinnings of our entire society.

Here's my favorite bit:


If we really valued care, we would not regard time out for caregiving — for your children, parents, spouse, sibling or any other member of your extended or constructed family — as a black hole on a résumé. We would see it as engaging in a socially, personally and professionally valuable activity. We would see men who lean out for care as role models just as much as women who lean in for work. We would think managing kids matters as much as managing money. Impossible, right? Yet I grew up in a society where my mother set out little vases of cigarettes on the table at dinner parties, where blacks and whites had to use different bathrooms, and in which almost everyone claimed to be heterosexual. That seems a lifetime ago, but I’m not so old. Our world has changed over the past 50 years...
0 Comments

DITCHING THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW

8/5/2015

0 Comments

 
Love this post by Tom DiDonato about getting rid of traditional performance reviews.  When you consider what we are trying to accomplish with them, they actually fail to deliver.  He says it so well...

Performance reviews that are tied to compensation create a blame-oriented culture. It’s well known that they reinforce hierarchy, undermine collegiality, work against cooperative problem solving, discourage straight talk, and too easily become politicized. They’re self-defeating and demoralizing for all concerned. Even high performers suffer, because when their pay bumps up against the top of the salary range, their supervisors have to stop giving them raises, regardless of achievement.

Read the whole article! 
0 Comments

WORK-X: EXPERIMENTING AT WORK

5/30/2015

0 Comments

 
In grade school science class, we learned that experimentation is how we test our pre-conceived theories. But in reality, many of our most important innovations happened by accident -- experiments gone wrong that produced unexpected results.

Today, we understand that experimentation -- when less linear and more creative -- can be a source of innovation, unexpected knowledge, and new ways of doing things. This is especially true in the workplace, as we look for new ways to improve workplace enjoyment and effectiveness.

Work-X is a new way of thinking about finding solutions at work. ...
0 Comments
    Picture
Schenk Consulting Group  © 2015  |  Pasadena, California 91030  |   (213)  399-3225   |   Lisa@Schenk.com