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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t. Absolutely not!

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How to Keep Your Pulse on the People Side of Organizational Change

Organizational Talent Consulting

And as the world changes, leaders and businesses must change too. Too often, organizational change management is simply a series of communications where executives or project managers inform the business that change is coming. What is the real change management challenge for you?

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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. Shifting metaphors, shifting mindsets: Using music to change the key of conflict. Bridges, W. Bridges Transition Model. link] Hull, A. White Cliffs Media Co.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

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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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How To Get Really Good at Facilitating Change

Nash Consulting

Add to this the fact that nearly half of the organizations on the 2018 top 100 list by revenue were not on that list in 2008. The world is changing, and it’s changing quickly, and organizations need to get really good at change or risk failure, which involves understanding and managing resistance to change.

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4 Steps to Develop More Motivation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Intrinsic motivation can change depending on the situation, how we feel, or what we have been doing. Here is a short video from leadership and behavior management expert Dr. Daniels on productivity and the Premack Principle. But if you just finished reading a lengthy book, you may choose to go for a walk. New York: McGraw-Hill.