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

Harmonious Workplaces

Provide the tools and train the members of the workforce to use the best possible techniques for clear, concise, and effective transmission, reception, and translation of communications. Organizations that invest in growth and learning opportunities promote hope, self-efficacy, reliance, and optimism among workers (Levene, 2015).

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs.

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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from a large-scale study revealed that training and development positively affected innovative performance by building employee competence and organizational commitment. Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. Doolittle, J.

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Transitions and Updates

The Nonprofit Consultant

I'm in the midst of wrapping up an Interim Executive Director position, and already beginning another long-term contract and scheduling trainings for 2022! My online courses in Grant Proposal Writing and Board Basics are continuing, and doing well, and have led to my first East Coast in-person training contract! First the Interim job.

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Chances Are, You Are Not as Good at Performance Management as You Think!

Organizational Talent Consulting

Generally, leaders find it challenging to achieve a higher level of awareness because they spend much of the workday rushing from meeting to meeting, having too much to get done, or taking shortcuts with decision-making for the sake of time. Conduct performance calibration meetings. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Korteling, J.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

No board meetings? Athletes are trained to visualize themselves successfully achieving their goals before events. The reality of a volatile work environment is that it is impossible to train for every potential cross-cultural leadership situation. When science meets mindfulness. No productive conflict? No aligned goals?

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I'm Back

The Nonprofit Consultant

In 2015, there were only had about 50 members who were actually participating in their Recovery Circles regularly. In 2015, the Cafe had a handful of Circles, and a few drop-in activities. million renovation of the Cafe itself, financed through CDBG funds, and all the delays, bureaucracy, endless meetings, and hard work that implies.