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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. The Misuse of Fun Perks Before we dive into the heart of improving culture, let’s clear something up.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Leadership Support: Leaders must champion change and cultivate an environment that encourages adaptability.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. Inclusive leadership: Realizing positive outcomes through belongingness and being valued for uniqueness. Within a few months, despite receiving a letter of recommendation, citing budget constraints, I found myself laid off. Not necessarily.

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. Appreciative Inquiry: A Double-Edged Sword In dialogic organizational development practices, appreciative inquiry has emerged as a powerful tool.