Industrial psychology, small businesses, & startups

Have you contemplated a different path? What does industrial psychology have to do with startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurship? Quite a bit, especially when industrial psychologists are starting their own businesses. Our panel at SIOP17 (session 198) includes expert advice from psychologists who are starting or have started their own businesses, featuring: Psychobabble, Quantum Improvements Consulting, SMDHR, DataPoints, and Brave Leaders Inc. Complete the form below to download our lessons learned. [gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false”] Your …
Family/marital issues, health issues, grief, religion: just a few of the non-financial topics that advisors work through with their clients. A few years ago, a large-scale study of advisors yielded a wealth of information on the evolving role of financial advisors as coaches (Dubofsky & Sussman, 2009). The research, which included approximately 1,400 advisors associated with either the FPA or CFP board, highlighted the topics, challenges, and critical incidents faced by advisors related to non-financial …
How does Netflix market to you? In an article in Fortune magazine, the vice-president of product for Netflix highlighted a growing perspective on the limitations of demographics and focused instead on taste and interests: “Geography, age, and gender? We put that in the garbage heap,” VP of product Todd Yellin said. Instead, viewers are grouped into “clusters” almost exclusively by common taste, and their Netflix homepages highlight the relatively small slice of content that matches …
Leaders tend to fall somewhere on the “transactional-transformational leadership” spectrum. A transactional leader typically uses the exchange of rewards for performance and focuses on keeping everyone in line in order to meet his and the organization’s goals. The transformational leader, on the other hand, focuses on the intrinsic needs of team members, motivating performance by ensuring the interests and goals of the team members and the organization are aligned. The transformational leaders I’ve worked with …

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