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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. Why critical reflection matters Reflection is a powerful leadership tool. Biases are present in all leaders. Open-mindedness.

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2 Attributes of Great Change Leaders

Organizational Talent Consulting

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation.

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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. Using a leadership 360 assessment is one proven tool to improve critical reflection. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using. Biases are always present but not always visible.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

You have to transition into the new organizational structure: This is not only onboarding, but rather a change management process. The position in this scenario might also include functional responsibilities, like managing functional departments beyond Operation Management. Future growth will make a COO necessary anyway.

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Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience

LSA Global

Understand the Current Customer Experience Just like any transformational change effort, successful customer experience redesigns start by doing a current state analysis to determine how employees and customers fully experience buying from and being served by you. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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The 3 New Rules of Engagement For Leaders

Cheryl Cran

This rule requires leadership that is focused on ‘seeking the positive’ and ‘rewarding and recognizing positive contributions’ by the team members. #3- Employees increase their engagement when they see that leadership is driving change forward for the benefit of the company, the customers and ultimately the employees.

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Interviews with Asian Leaders – what did we find?

Ben de Haldevang

My friend Ben de Haldevang and I spent a fair bit of time over the spring and summer of 2016 talking to a number of Asian senior executives, across several sectors, about their views on how Asian business practices, decisionmaking, and organizations worked in comparison to those in the west.