organizational psychology Archives

Five-Factors of Work Well-Being

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 50 Views 0 Comments culture of well-being, energy, engagement, healing, health, health promotion, organizational healing, organizational psychology, psychology, well-being

Promote and nurture well-being at work with five factors built into the design of your operations and your organizational culture.

innovation psychology

Emotional Honesty in Designing Change

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 546 Viewsaction, attention, behaviour change, climate change, earth day, emotion, emotional baggage, environment, honesty, hope, mindfulness, organizational psychology, psychological safety, psychology

Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions.

innovation

Innovation for the Real World

April 15, 2021October 4, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 567 Viewschange, complexity, Cynefin Framework, data, design, innovation, organizational psychology, perspective taking, psychological safety, psychology, systems perspective, systems thinking

Why does most of what we read about innovation resemble very little of what our work life actually looks like?

innovation psychology

Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 960 Viewscomplexity, decision making, goals, learning, organizational change, organizational development, organizational learning, organizational psychology, psychology, social psychology, systems thinking

Change is hard because our identities often depend on us being right, even when we are not. Understanding the myths we hold to can be a means to get past this and make real change and make it stick.

innovation

Innovation Psychology

September 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 747 Viewscensemaking, culture of innovation, innovation, innovation lab, mindset, organizational psychology, psychology

Highlights on innovation psychology inspired by the Censemaking Newsletter. Today we dive a little further into some of the headlines

innovation psychology

Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1274 Viewscomplexity, goals, innovation, innovation ecosystem, innovation lab, metrics, organizational change, organizational psychology, psychotherapy

Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.

education & learning health innovation psychology systems thinking

Genetic engineering for your brand

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 1406 Viewsaddiction, behaviour change, brand, business, business model, DNA, emotion, emotional baggage, epigenetics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, marketing, organizational psychology, psychology, system dynamics, systems science

DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’

education & learning psychology systems thinking

Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1377 Viewsbehaviour change, case study, continuing medical education, evaluation, healthcare, knowledge integration, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, learning, organizational design, organizational learning, organizational performance, organizational psychology, organizations, praxis, strategy, system design, systems, systems thinking

Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are

design evaluation psychology systems thinking

Exploding goals and their myths

July 20, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 931 Viewsbeauty, behaviour change, design, goals, health behaviour change, organizational change, organizational psychology, organizations, psychology, science, self-determination theory, social science

Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means

systems thinking

A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1229 Viewsattention, attractor, beauty, behaviour change, book, complexity, creativity, creators, design, emergence, organizational aesthetics, organizational psychology, path dependence, research, Steven De Groot

Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our

← Previous

Promote and nurture well-being at work with these five factors built into the design of your operations and your or… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 21 hours ago
We don’t talk enough about the importance of public washrooms. ⁦@lizrenzetti⁩ is right — anyone who’s sought to enj… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
Guides for Well-Being By Design bit.ly/3LyPWbS 6 days ago
Very true. We don’t amortize the fruits of our labour very far to our detriment. twitter.com/IAmMarkManson/… 6 days ago
I just received a newsletter that began with this: “Happy weekend! May you savor the thing that makes you feel a wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 days ago

Follow @cdnorman

organizational psychology

Five-Factors of Work Well-Being

Emotional Honesty in Designing Change

Innovation for the Real World

Innovation Psychology

Putting our organizations on the couch

Genetic engineering for your brand

Learning fails in bad systems

A Beautiful Idea

More Great Content

Follow Blog via Email

Cameron’s Tweets

The coffee is on and good ideas are brewing.

Sign up for the best insights, tools, and techniques for change-making and innovation delivered to your inbox.

More Great Content

Categories

Follow Blog via Email

The coffee is on and good ideas are brewing.

Sign up for the best insights, tools, and techniques for change-making and innovation delivered to your inbox.