People First
Kerit uses a scientific approach called Psychological Capital to simplify the process of human development. The framework is evolved from positive psychology for the workplace by Dr. Fred Luthans of the University of Nebraska. Its universal relevance and practicality make it the perfect framework for our pull forward.
How Kerit Sees People
Modern philosophy surrounding humans in the workplace is simple. Organizations use capital to transform resources into value. Humans are just one piece of what’s necessary to do business; you need people, but also money, a place to work, and a product to sell.
Performance of human capital, central to all activity, is largely dependent on just two things: traits and technical skills. Traits are the qualities with which a person is born (body type, arm length, height, IQ). While technical skills are the knowledge they absorb (school, training, certifications, job experience) throughout life.
There is a third additional piece, one that has gone largely undefined up to this point. The state of a human being inside the workplace has a compounding positive effect on organizational performance. State is how a person feels about themselves, their boss, the company, the product… Everything in the work environment.
Giving The Cloud a Name
As it turns out, the state of a human being at work is a cloudy thing to define. Not only is it difficult to observe how a person feels, but feelings change with the environment. People often don’t understand their own feelings. Kerit cuts through the noise and skips straight to developing the things that matter for performance in the workplace.
Source: Adapted from Luthans, Youseff-Morgan & Avolio (2015), Psychological Capital and Beyond, New York: Oxford University Press
Enter: Psychological Capital, the framework to grow any work environment into a yielding asset. Existing as a collective between hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism, PsyCap simplifies the process of human development down to easy-to-follow strings of practice. Strings that foster people with hope for tomorrow and confidence in their ability, who see adversity as opportunity and the future with optimism. Things that matter, nothing that doesn’t.
How We Do It
On the foundation of PsyCap, Kerit builds a targeted development plan to run alongside our technology in each environment. Organizations utilize leaders inside the environment to champion development while Kerit facilitates. We can tailor a plan to fit any budget or timeline, right down to coordinating logistics on-site.
As data is collected from the environment, insight is visualized and delivered back out as new goals. Development sessions teach users how to understand goals within the context of their environment and use the system to drive mutual benefit.
Kerit plans repeating strings of short development sessions to grow each of the four PsyCap components. Sessions focus on topics like: participative planning, recognition of mastery, contingency training, or strategy discussion. Content comes from real historic-data of events inside the workplace so users can see the full scope of activity across the environment that they are a part of.
Sessions are directed by Kerit development guides and supported through a library of digital tools. Guides are designed to distill complex analytics down into a simple format for each functional layer of the organization. Cause and effect illustrations show users the steps to improvement and the reward for getting there.
Kerit works to develop human ability so technology can enhance it. As a third-party information specialist, we improve the connection between organizations and their individual parts. Kerit is the platform to build and strengthen the culture in your workplace. Our Technology section is next, or you can skip ahead to our About.