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Change Management – Is There Enough Dissatisfaction with the Status Quo?

LSA Global

No Pain, No Gain The exercise training adage advocating that there is no gain if there is no pain can be adapted to organizational change theory. We used to think that a compelling vision for change combined with a strong drive to achieve was enough to motivate and propel change in an organization.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. Holiday, 2016) By these stoic virtues exercised by great historical figures throughout history, managers go beyond management to more adequately deliver results and reduce counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Not necessarily.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a verbatim snippet from her résumé at the time: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND SERVICES Senior consultant with professional experience in Organization Development and Change, Leadership and Organizational Communications and Coaching , as well as internal and external Corporate Communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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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. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." link] Performance Accelerator 3: Strategic Leadership.

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How to Help Build Employee Resilience

LSA Global

Employee Resilience Matters In our leadership action learning programs , we define employee resilience as the ability to respond in a healthy way to pressure, to deal with difficult situations, and to overcome challenges. We know from change management simulation data that employee resilience is important.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. That’s a lot of bending!

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).