Bridgeborne Psychology delivers bespoke interventions through coaching, training and consultancy. Taking a holistic approach, wellbeing is kept central to maximise performance and promote long lasting positive change. To deal with a constantly changing world both individuals and organisations need to develop, grow and adapt. This is a journey that must be taken one step at a time.
Doing what you love makes economic sense
We’ve been hearing a lot about giving employees ‘innovation time’ recently. Among others, under Google’s ’20 percent time’, employees get dedicated time to work on their own ideas or the ideas of colleagues.
But how can having your work force “on task” for only 80% of the time make sense?
It comes down to everyone getting far more out of that 20% than you might guess.
We Psychologists are very interested in what leads to greater employee satisfaction, motivation and productivity; Hackman and Oldham’s influential Job Characteristics Model (1976, 1980) suggested individuals need the following :
By creating a culture of teamwork, respect and creativity where these can occur, Google benefits by having happy employees who are constantly coming up with new ideas and ways that their work could be done better, cheaper and faster..... Inspired.