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Psychology of Performance – 11 What happens when the C level is impaired?
As a business psychology firm, we get to consult and intervene with top performers in the C-Suite whose performance has dropped. There are many factors related to the performance drop. For this blog I...
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Psychology of Performance – 12 Role and Performance
The social psychology of role has been extensively researched in psychology. Elliot Jacques in his book, Social Power and the CEO, discussed how role in organizations, clarity regarding accountability...
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Psychology of Performance -13 Too Many Hats!
In BizPsych we often run into CEO’s, VP’s, Managers, and Supervisors who have performance problems related to “wearing too many hats”. Elliot Jacques’ work described a variety of systems and...
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Effects of 2010 Gulf Oil Spill and Mental Health
We’ve begun to see editorials, videos and news stories about the effects of the Gulf Oil Spill on behavioral health. Most recently I watched an expose about the effects of Exxon-Valdez on alcohol and...
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Psychology of Performance – 14 Negative Emotional States
When you allow your mind to focus on negative emotions does your performance improve or deteriorate? Negative emotional states arise from expectation violations and then get potentiated by adding...
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Psychology of Performance – 15 Business Unit Effectiveness, Management and...
How effective are your various business units? What are your performance indicators? Do each of your employees get held accountable for the results or just the managers? All businesses and...
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Psychology of Performance – 16 Accountability and Authority
In our consulting through BizPsych (www.BizPsych.com), organizations ask us to assess and intervene with vertical relationship conflicts as well as cross-departmental conflicts on a regular basis....
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Psychology of Performance – 17 Mirror Neurons
In his book The Mindful Therapist, Dr. Dan Siegel discusses the role of mirror neurons in actions that have a perceived intention behind them. He stated that the mirror neurons function as a bridge...
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Psychology of Performance – 18
Gina Kolata wrote an outstanding article in the New York Times on the psychological and behavioral aspects of the psychology of performance that I want to pass on to you. She has a number of points...
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Psychology of Performance – 20 – Early Attachment and Adult Performance...
Our early attachments to our primary caregivers may have significant implications for our ability to perform throughout our lives. The good news is that there are mindfulness techniques that can help...
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