Can Meetings Drive a More Inclusive Team Culture?
It’s true that high levels of inclusion are necessary for diversity practices to positively impact and develop trust in groups, but an inclusive team culture is generated by everyday interactions. Any one of us can experience the benefits of inclusion and the detriments of exclusion at any time.
Developing an Innovation Mindset
Transforming a business requires shifting our perception about how we see and understand reality. We need to update our own operating system and cultivate an innovation mindset.
Is Agile Shaping Your Culture by Accident or by Design? (Part 3 of 3)
In this article, we share the specific challenges we experienced when launching an Agile Leadership Program and the top lessons we learned alongside the participants and sponsors of this journey.
Is Agile Shaping Your Culture by Accident or by Design? (Part 2 of 3)
At Axialent, we deliberately expose and analyze ‘the gap’ before we intervene. We call it the ‘From-To’. It helps us gain a deep understanding of the problem and empathize with our clients as we embark on co-designing the solution with them. In this second article, we share our thinking around the principles that informed our approach to this Agile leadership journey.
Why Doing Agile is Not Enough
Doing agile is challenging but being agile is transformative. Where is the right place to start? There is no one right answer. But first things first. What is the difference between doing agile and being agile?
Is Agile Shaping Your Culture by Accident or by Design? (Part 1 of 3)
At Axialent, our expertise lies in helping organizations build the cultures they require, in light of their business strategy, and develop their leaders to be living proxies of that culture. In the last two decades, agile has emerged as an unstoppable practice among organizations, and it is changing their cultures. The question for us is: are you managing the resulting culture change intentionally? Is agile shaping your culture by accident or by design?
Why I was wrong about my innovation mindset
When I decided to focus my career on helping organizations innovate, I also set out to develop my “Innovation Mindset.” For me, this meant not being afraid to try new things, takings risks, and doing my best to be creative.
What happens when procrastination gets the best of us?
About 20 percent of adults have regular bouts of procrastination. What happens when procrastination gets the best of us?
Why Organizations Need to Prioritize Their Employees’ Well-Being
After a year of a pandemic that has taken a physical and emotional toll on hundreds of millions of people, the elusive idea of “well-being” is more relevant than ever. Even before the pandemic, it was already a hot topic with an established multi-billion dollar industry. The need for organizations to prioritize their employees’ well-being is more present than it has ever been.
5 Ways to Balance Work / Life Integration
2020 has left a trail of exhausted people, mentally drained, after coping with a year of high uncertainty. We learned to adapt by force and reinvented ourselves. But more importantly, where we developed resilience, our ability to bounce back in the face of adversity grew and as a result, we came out stronger.