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The Cogntive Curl
The curl may seem like a simple move to strengthen muscles, but there's more to it than just lifting a weight up. It is also how we move the weight back down.
This blog is dedicated towards understanding how to become a dynamic thinker -- so we can better lead our organization, teams and self.
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White Paper Cheat Sheet: Developing Multicultural Organization Notes
As part of Project MARIO, I created notes to enable the development of an anti-racist framework for working with organizations. I will...
Jessica Grossman
Mar 16, 20214 min read
The Impact of Mindset on My Performance
Growing up my mom loved watching me play soccer with a huge smile on my face. I loved and was very good at the game. But as I started...
Jessica Grossman
Mar 10, 20212 min read
Celebrating Women's Day With An Intellectual Road Map of Inequality
Happy International Women’s Day! In order to #choosetochallenge we need to rethink the organizational system behind unequal class, race...
Jessica Grossman
Mar 8, 20217 min read
The Role of Goals
Research suggests that setting clear goals is a major aspect of the efficacy of a coaching partnership. This is because the process of...
Jessica Grossman
Feb 18, 20212 min read
Defining Human Reasoning
According to Argyris human reasoning “is the process that human beings use to move from what they know to what they do; that is from...
Jessica Grossman
Feb 3, 20212 min read
Curse of the High Achiever
After spending around 5 years working with around 200 new college graduates from a mostly privileged background, I noticed that the...
Jessica Grossman
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Best Practices for Facilitating Team Onboarding
When teams form for project work, there are all sorts of emotions based on the mixture of people, expertise, and exposure. Teams...
Jessica Grossman
Jan 12, 20212 min read
Beyond Hiring Metrics for Diversity Initiatives
Organizational Activities for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Initiatives By integrating and building into organizational life the...
Jessica Grossman
Jan 7, 20212 min read
What is Team Coaching?
In my first experience as a team coach, I found myself anxiously ruminating about my place on the team. How do I help a team when I...
Jessica Grossman
Jan 2, 20213 min read
Principles of Creating and Sharing Knowledge
In order to lead the strategic design and use of enterprise social technology solutions for organizational knowledge sharing and...
Jessica Grossman
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Performance and Change Through a New Lens
The three components in Burke’s Causal Model for Organizational Performance, individual needs and values, motivations and systems, play a...
Jessica Grossman
Nov 5, 20202 min read
I was Lightning Before the Thunder
At this point I realized, it is not about “overcoming” our fears but understanding that we can hold two stories at the same time! That a sm
Jessica Grossman
Oct 10, 20201 min read
The Value of Values
In the book Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business Transforming Lives, they discuss coaching having a big “A” and a little “a”. The little...
Jessica Grossman
Oct 10, 20202 min read
"New" Views on Social Organizational Change
Learning from the Past Working on a pro bono project called MARIO (Massive Anti-Racist I-O) I found myself deep in multicultural...
Jessica Grossman
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Meet Your Organization Where They Are: My D&I Inspired Cultural Assessment
Organization HR Design Components vs. Organizational Mental Complexity Index This model is highly influenced by Bennett’s Intercultural...
Jessica Grossman
Sep 22, 20203 min read
Easily Found! Cheesy D&I Pictures
Implicit vs. Explicit Approach to Diversity & Inclusion (or whatever you want to call it these days) Since the murder of George Floyd,...
Jessica Grossman
Sep 20, 20202 min read
Change Management-- Thinking Beyond the Models
As I reread these principles it reminds me of how I've grown as a person, but also the work that I still need to be a better practitioner!
Jessica Grossman
Sep 11, 20205 min read
How to Make the Most of Inevitable Team Mistakes
As Covid-19 disrupts the way teams work, teams are challenged to evolve and forced to use new mechanisms (e.g. technology) to communicate an
Jessica Grossman
Sep 7, 20205 min read
Reframing Your Perception of Coaching
I see coaching as helping clients make meaning and thus learn from their experiences, whether that is understanding them through the lenses
Jessica Grossman
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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