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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Ongoing project assessment of changes taken with defined early indicators. Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Mellinger, M.

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Workplace Diversity: 4 Ways to Lead Respectfully

Rick Conlow

We can meet new people from different cultures with ease. Yet, it is not quite so easy to melt away the distrust and prejudice that sometimes accompanies cross-cultural interaction. Cultural norms. This added depth of perception and ingenuity in organizations improves customer service and productivity. For example.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

Trying to improve productivity in a process by 25% on first try is (generally) a recipe for failure and frustration—notwithstanding Byrne’s success with that approach. The data on change management are consistent: about 70% of change initiatives fail, despite the plethora of books, conferences, and scholarly papers dedicated to the subject.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

Cultural change requires a nucleus of organizational catalysts who are insiders with outsider cultural beliefs. A control group completed an assertiveness skills exercise.) Second, they show genuine understanding of the cost of inequality for everyone (not to mention the organizational bottom line).

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Leaders Focus Too Much on Changing Policies, and Not Enough on Changing Minds

Harvard Business

More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers. One of the most successful began with a simple exercise aimed at helping the leaders to define their three highest priorities.

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A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions

Harvard Business

Consider the experience of one of the world’s largest footwear manufacturers, whose leaders engaged in an exercise that others can use to revamp the way they make decisions. In its fast-changing industry, big challenges loomed on many fronts. Disagreement emerged about which decisions fell within the specified time frame.

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How Atrius Health Is Making the Shift from Volume to Value

Harvard Business

The team used an outside consultant with experience in automotive product design to train and coach the leader and team members in the new capability. For example, through a patient-journey-mapping exercise, the Care in Place team noticed that some of the senior patients being sent to the ER did not need to go.