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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. Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. The Misuse of Fun Perks Before we dive into the heart of improving culture, let’s clear something up.

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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. Flexible Organizational Culture: A culture that promotes openness to new ideas and approaches fundamentally fosters success.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I believe that leaders must: Face the obstacles to success for their group (Holiday, 2014) Have the courage to do the right thing (Holiday, 2021) Possess the discipline to see their way through doing the right thing (Holiday, 2022) Remove their own ego from the equation. Click the link below to try it out. References Holiday, R. Ehrhart, K.,

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

How Can You Accelerate Leadership Development? High-quality investments in leadership development motivate leaders, create a strong culture , and increase organizational commitment. Many leadership development programs are missing the mark because they are event-driven. Henry Ford Development Readiness.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. Appreciative Inquiry: A Double-Edged Sword In dialogic organizational development practices, appreciative inquiry has emerged as a powerful tool.