By Susan Cain, Ed.D. and Vincent Pelusso, The Corporate Learning Institute, www.corplearning.com Leaders in any organization set the pace and expectations for followers. In this economy, we see so many issues occurring because leaders feel the “pinch” of financial demands at work and the “crunch” of employee motivation. How can leaders engage followers in developing [...]

Dr. Susan Cain, and Vincent Peluso, The Corporate Learning Institute   The Denison Culture Survey is a useful tool for organizations to understand their cultural strengths and weaknesses. What is culture? Culture is the “code” that signals the behavior of people in your organization. It is those unseen forces that guide behavior. In all organizations, [...]

A small team of mixed-aged employees gather around a 13-foot wall at Marriott’s Hickory Ridge Conference Hotel outside Chicago.”I can’t climb this wall alone!” one offers, “I have a bad knee”, another one comments. Finally, a woman steps up after surveying the wall. “I think I see a way to do this!”, she exclaims. The [...]