The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change

Step C.Attend to intellectual health

• What it means:

— Providing learning and developmental opportunities

• How it works:

— Increase individual skills

— Provide career development programs

— Expose employees to emerging technologies

The Idea

Attending to intellectual health means providing learning and developmental opportunities, developing career plans, and providing state-of-the art technology. Leaders who are attentive to the intellectual needs of their employees generate intellectual capital in the organization. This intellectual capital consists of the knowledge, skills, insights and perspectives of people within the organization.

Organizations that actively promote intellectual health help individual employees and benefit as an organization ...