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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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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. This leads to more engaged, more motivated workers which develops a more resilient and adaptive organization.

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

Successful Independent Consulting

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Translation: change management for IT projects. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Translation: turnaround expert.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

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). Am I vilifying business owners and executives?

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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).

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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2021, Dr. Casey DeBruyn recommended, based on my interests and the content of my schoolwork, that I consider organizational development (OD) and change management as career paths in consulting. In 2020, I enrolled at Purdue Global to begin my academic journey in I-O Psychology. That’s a lot of bending!

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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.

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