by Stan Phelps | Feb 8, 2024 | Green Goldfish
Extrinsic factors like salary and benefits don’t necessarily lead to employee motivation or boost firm performance. What does? Intrinsic elements. That’s what Dan Ariely shared on a recent episode of the Prof G podcast with Scott Galloway. The Green...
by Stan Phelps | May 28, 2023 | Employee Satisfaction, Green Goldfish, Happiness
I’ve heard people say employee well-being is just a bunch of woo-woo. Turns out it is more Ric Flair, “WOOOO!” A report from researchers at Oxford and Harvard this month has shown a strong positive relationship between employee wellbeing and firm...
by Stan Phelps | Jan 11, 2023 | Green Goldfish
Great time today at our first Jeffersonian Lunch of 2023 with Sarah Lien Finnerty, Pam Didner, and Chris Quinn. We went to Mookies New York Deli in Cary. Thanks to owner Ron Didner for the hospitality. Hat tip to Marcey Rader, CSP® as we had...
by Stan Phelps | Nov 25, 2022 | Green Goldfish, Purple Goldfish, Silver Goldfish
It’s DISCOVERY. Failing to give your audience time to process new ideas/concepts and allow them the space to discover how to implement what they’ve learned. Big thanks to Victoria Tracy Ringwood and Nikki Jones for providing me the opportunity to present...
by Stan Phelps | Nov 8, 2022 | Employee Satisfaction, Green Goldfish
At one time it was almost 10 times harder to get a job at Google than it was to get into Harvard… Back in 2014, I wrote an article in Forbes exploring 15 reasons why. Here is a synopsis: 1. Dollars and Sense – With billions of dollars in revenue every...
by Stan Phelps | Sep 20, 2022 | Employee Satisfaction, Green Goldfish
Three lessons of warmth from the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Why warmth? Because as we evolved as human beings, we developed skills integral to our survival. One of those was the ability to make snap judgments about our surroundings with a high degree of both speed...
