About The Corporate Kindergarten: Welcome to the world of Kidults!:
A thought-provoking examination of corporate practices.
Have you ever looked around at work and thought, “What a whole lot of bullshit!” I am sure you have many times. At least once a week. Every day!
Unfortunately, that thought remains with you because nobody speaks up, so we continue the old ways of doing things, making us ineffective & disengaged. To mitigate our pain, HR acts as a decoy, luring us into believing that we are in a fun, progressive, and caring environment by giving us slides, ball pits, team-building games, celebrations, free coffee & food, accommodation, and a cinema voucher in exchange for hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime.
“A few hundred years from now, when we look back at the history and evolution of the workforce, this will be known as “The era of corporate bullshit” or “The era of corporate kidults.” 50 years ago, people imagined that in the future, we would have cool techs such as flying cars and 3D holograms of ourselves to attend appointments and stuff. Instead, we have remote team buildings with guacamole spread competitions, lama colouring, sack races, and $20 gift vouchers for being the fastest in moving toilet rolls from one table to another (Yup, I had to play that one once).”
Traditional HR and organisational practices don’t work in a world where everything changes constantly. This book provides every corporate folk out there with specific examples of outdated and often ridiculous practices and presents practical solutions to address those.
Szilvia Olah is on a mission to help organisations eliminate such practices and create a mature, adultlike work environment where individuals, especially leaders, are accountable for their performance and behaviour.
Szilvia is an organisational psychologist who spent 19 years in the corporate environment. Through her company, The Strengths Company, based in Dubai, she challenges leaders to think differently and adapt their practices to suit the changing needs of employees.
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Author Bio:
I’m an organisational Psychologist who spent 19 years in the corporate environment. I help develop positive, effective work environments that support employee success, and organisational productivity, by focusing on making a strong match between employees and their roles.
As a Gallup strengths coach, I help people and teams do what they do best every day to improve their quality of work & life outside of work. Strengths coaching is about identifying individuals’ natural talent – strengths – and focusing on developing those further instead of fixiating their weaknesses. Using Gallup’s Strengths tools, I develop my understanding of their natural talent, and then I use that to guide them to discover and capitalize on what they do best.
I am like Nanny McPhee; When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go.