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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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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. Challenges in Achieving Change Readiness Organizations often face hurdles in developing change readiness. Is your organization ready for it?

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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. Amid good times and bad times, workplaces can choose better interventions toward organizational development and motivation of employees to work hard and remain loyal to their work. Picture a fall Friday morning in a downtown office.

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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

Additionally, I began a mentee relationship with Alan Landers, from whom I learned much about organizational development and change leadership through a certification course offered by The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Enable Others to Act  — Build teams, develop others, and make future leaders.

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Management Consulted West Coast Tour – Fall 2014

Management Consulted

Masters of Organizational Development) were anything but peppery. If you are considering partnering with us in 2015, don’t hesitate to book in a 30 minute session with us to discuss how we can bring our A-game or tailor our courses to suit your group or school! ” Our Pepperdine students – MBAs and M.O.D.s

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Meditation is What You Do When You Meditate

Brimstone Consulting

Some of these techniques are thousands of years old, while some are very recent, having been developed out of recent brain science findings. Some meditations have the intention of awakening and developing our loving-kindness and compassion for ourselves and others. There are meditations for becoming more aware of the present moment.

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Don’t Call It the “End of the Siesta”: What Spain’s New Work Hours Really Mean

Harvard Business

For example, in 2015, with the support of the European Union, a number of Spanish regional governments conducted a survey to evaluate the extent to which companies allowed employees to work from home (one of the more common and popular work-life balance perks). The boss’s influence.