Sink or SWIM: The Human Systems Theory Approach to Business Performance (The Sink or SWIM Series, Book 1)

Every organization has the same problems. Turnover. Silos. Communication breakdowns. Disengaged employees. Managers who can't seem to lead. And every organization reaches for the same solutions—engagement surveys, more training, culture initiatives, policy rewrites. The results rarely last.The problems plaguing your organization are predictable outputs of environmental factors that can be identified, mapped, and changed. Somewhere in your organization right now, talented, high performing people are updating their resumes. They are leaving because environmental factors you have not yet identified are making their work harder than it needs to be, their contributions less valued than they should be, their future less clear than they need it to be. They are swimming against currents they cannot name, exhausting themselves against forces that feel permanent. Sink or SWIM introduces Strategic Workforce Insight Mapping—a diagnostic methodology that reveals why your people do what they do by examining the conditions they face. Drawing on converging research from clinical psychology, family systems theory, and organizational science, the audiobook introduces Human Systems Theory: a framework for understanding organizational behavior as the predictable output of system design. The methodology was developed across more than fifty client engagements and forged earlier in the operational turnaround of a 600-employee, $300M manufacturing division. It has been tested in factories, hospitals, and boardrooms. Employee behavior is rational. People respond sensibly to the conditions around them. Change the conditions, change the response. Those currents can be mapped. Those forces can be changed. Those people can be kept.The diagnosis begins here.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Read more