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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Culture identifies what is essential and reinforces communication norms and behaviors for leaders—cultural forces impact leadership communication effectiveness and, ultimately, organizational effectiveness.

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How Executive Leaders Build Trust

Organizational Talent Consulting

However, privately many leaders question if it is possible to be considered trustworthy during change, given the decline in employee confidence. The good news is that you can rebuild trust after it is broken, but only if you manage what you say and do well. References: Bono, J., & & Ilies, R. Doolittle, J.

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How to be a Seriously Effective Leader in a Crisis

Organizational Talent Consulting

Humor can be considered a social skill, emotion, cognitive ability, interpersonal communication behavior, behavioral response, habit, perspective about life, or coping strategy. Organizational culture. It is best to understand the audience and company culture before trying to be understood. Chalie Chaplin. Engagement.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

More and more companies are relying on mergers & acquisitions (M&A) as a competitive growth strategy. Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. John Gichigi/Getty Images. trillion for the past four years.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Adapting to change. The reinvention of NASA has been an evolution spanning three phases, each focused on achieving different goals and characterized by particular technology strategies, cultural values, and ways of working with external parties. This model has changed NASA’s technology strategy.