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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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Storytelling in OD Communications

Harmonious Workplaces

Persuade and solidify commitment using stories of triumph and loss in organizational development. She presented Lisa with another less difficult piece. I recently asked my mentor, Alan Landers, to provide an article on practical interventions one can use in organizational development.

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Just one Moment: Mindfulness for Busy Leaders

Brimstone Consulting

Mindfulness offers an opportunity for us to spend less time in unproductive states of mind and helps us to return to the present moment, just as it is, without judgment.

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More effort doesn’t always yield better results

Brimstone Consulting

I intend no criticism of this approach, and learned and developed a lot practicing in this way. Fast forward to the present day. I now have the privilege of presenting introductions to meditation and mindfulness to busy and successful executives who are experiencing a lot of workplace stress. That truly is enough.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

The CEO of that company, who wasn’t present at this meeting, praised this behavior because he felt this was how football coaches find success (the VP came from an athletic coaching background), going so far as to express his admiration within an email to the rest of the company in a previous month. Click the link below to try it out.

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The Power of Mindfulness: Remember, Recenter, Re-engage

Brimstone Consulting

Mindfulness practice helps us to return to the present moment, just as it is, without judgment. Returning to the present moment is a kind of remembering; remembering where we are, what we were intending to accomplish, what our commitments and aspirations are, and remembering how we want to be in a relationship with others.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).