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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. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

New Beginning, Making Gains: Attitude change and acceptance take hold as people perceive benefits (improved efficiency, new skills, better service) and celebrate successes. Training teams to use music as a metaphor may inspire them to adopt better listening, adaptation, and engagement skills and abilities. Bridges, W. link] Hull, A.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Culture Change Strategy #4: Deliberate role modeling and training How leaders act and behave outside of training is more significant than what is said or demonstrated within training events. Advanced culture change leadership. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 65 (3), 177-198. Schein, E.

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Cheryl Cran Makes The List of “Best 50 Leadership Blogs” Again

Cheryl Cran

Vancouver, BC — ( ReleaseWire ) — 11/23/2015 — Cheryl Cran has once again been given the honor of making the annual list of the “Best 50 Leadership Blogs.” Of the best 50 leadership bloggers in 2015, 11 of them are women. About Cheryl Cran.

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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program

Harvard Business

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. Most have formal training or personal experience with diversity-related issues, although this is not required to participate.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Note: To continue the merger and consolidation excitement, Willis Group (a large insurance provider interested largely in the actuarial practice of Towers Watson) and Towers Watson announced on June 30, 2015 that they had agreed to a $18B merger. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING KEY STATS.