Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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Nash Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

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. It’s not just significant changes that meet resistance. It’s about helping them accept the change. It’s a process.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

link] Culture Change Strategy #4: Deliberate role modeling and training How leaders act and behave outside of training is more significant than what is said or demonstrated within training events.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of their change story, they developed a unifying internal communications campaign called the “Nature of Next” that articulated the reasoning and vision for the acquisition. Change events are often uncertain, unstable, stressful, and risky. Find creative ways to involve employees in the change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking. It is comparable to breathing.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Another common strategy we’ve seen is firms rushing to train internal talent. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. It was a highly valued change. What did we do? This has paid off dramatically.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business. Minimize the need for multiple layers of sign-off. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. During this stage, Margaret also worked with staff to develop a quality improvement plan. Next was the launching stage.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

People are selected, evaluated, and trained on how to embody them. For months, the organization’s attention is consumed with the perception that things are really changing and that we are “all in this together.” I spoke at an event where a company had completed such a campaign about six months earlier.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

If you think of it as this one-time event, you’re doomed to failure. That example you shared about going to an event or a conference, investing $20,000 or even if it’s $1,000 or $5,000 in hoping that’s going to somehow create the big win for you. Maybe, maybe not. Focus on the relationship first. Click To Tweet.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

For example, in one of our studies we talked to people participating in athletic events that raise money for a charitable cause (e.g., “My definition of a yoga teacher is just someone who helps people to develop a full spectrum practice in their life. a bike ride for a children’s hospital in Israel).

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