3D Group Blog
How Leaders Can Give Effective Feedback & Drive Performance
By Dale S. Rose Feedback is a fact of organizational life. Employees respond to feedback in varied ways: They will ignore it, overlook it, embrace it, or reject it. But the fact is, that if you work with people, you’re dealing with feedback one way or...
How to Tell Your Manager (or Anyone Else) What You Really Think
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. At work, it is often difficult for employees to be completely open and honest with each other. Most difficult of all is providing upward feedback to your direct manager because that power differential is real. When done poorly, telling your...
Inclusive Leaders Create and Sustain a Winning Culture
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. Successful leaders get the most from their team by creating an inclusive culture. Inclusion is a cultural norm on the most effective teams that is simple to understand and rarely achieved. It comes down to the basic question “does everyone feel...
Writing Reviews that Actually Improve Performance
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. Virtually every leader dreads giving (and receiving) performance reviews. There are too many to complete, they take too long, and assuming it is online, they are either too clunky to navigate or over simplified. Worst of all, when employees...
Why Do Leaders Suddenly Seem So Much Less Influential?
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. I’m still amazed how often people ask me “are leaders born or made?” For the record, they are made. Really. Still, the kernel of truth in the question comes down to our recognition that some personal attributes do make people stand out as...
The Great Realignment…a short spike in employee mobility provides opportunity for all.
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. The “great resignation” is a fantastical phrase that turns out to be little more than a clickbait. Much has been written about the sudden spike in “quits” data reported by the Bureau of labor Statistics, but too few authors have bothered to look...
I Can’t See You, But I Can Lead You…or Can I?
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. Twenty twenty-two will be the year when hybrid work becomes the norm and companies across the globe learn to optimize their operations to accommodate this new way of working. Implications for hybrid work are manyfold, but none are more...
Will Organizational Culture Survive The Pandemic?
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. The social and health pandemics that began in 2020 have strained organizations and leaders in powerful ways. For example, remote work for knowledge workers has challenged deeply held habits and beliefs about what it means to be employed by a...
Do We Really Need to Meet In-Person?
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D., President & Co-Founder Leaders everywhere are trying to sort out remote work, in -person work, hybrid work, what works best... In other words, do we really need to meet in person? The short answer is: YES! In particular, when it comes to...
Creating High Performing Teams: Drive & Friction
By Anne Whiting, Senior Consultant Most complex business challenges, whether its post-pandemic planning, a merger, or launching a new product, demand a collaborative team-based approach. And, while teamwork is needed in so many areas of work, even high...