Meaningful Work?
If we are seeking to create a more humane world, then we need to create workplaces that bring out and cultivate our true humanness. This...
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Kim Payton, PhD
Organizational Psychologist
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Apr 23
- 23 min
The Power Behind Emotional Intelligence
The concept of emotional intelligence was introduced in 1965 By Daniel Goleman in his book “Emotional Intelligence”, or “EQ”. EQ has...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Mar 13
- 19 min
Actualizing Self - What is It and Why Does It Matter?
It is apparent to many that the current state of the world and humanity is one of great danger and, we hope of great opportunity. I see...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Feb 16
- 29 min
Collaboration and the Team - Fundamental Unit of Adaptive Organization
Recently, reflecting on the frightening degree to which human beings have become polarized across a wide variety of issues, I remembered...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Jan 23
- 21 min
The Play of “Selves” in Organization
The purpose of the work of building adaptive organizations is to bring out the best human qualities in people instead of sub-human...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Dec 17, 2022
- 23 min
Ego and Self at Work
Ego and Self at Work Over the forty years that I have worked as a consulting organizational psychologist, two things have become clear to...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Nov 20, 2022
- 24 min
Up-shifting: Seven Ways to Raise Awareness
We are familiar with taking care of the things that make up our everyday lives: our house, our car, our bodies, our relationships, our...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Oct 19, 2022
- 18 min
Organizations That Bring Out the Best in People
Sometimes I have the opportunity to ask as group “When did you experience working really well together?” Quite often the answer pertains...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Apr 27, 2020
- 8 min
Finding Leadership
We seem to have lost our way with leadership. “Leader” seems to have come to mean somebody who gets me what I want, or at least tells me...
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Kim Payton Ph.D.
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
What Management Can Do in The Time of Social Distancing – Connect!
One of the benefits of crisis is, we are reminded of the things that really matter. The social distancing imperative is revealing how...
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