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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. The Misuse of Fun Perks Before we dive into the heart of improving culture, let’s clear something up.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. One of the more impactful moments in the course involved the resistance to change by most people at most times.

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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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How Humble Leadership Really Works

Harvard Business

Organizational Development Book. This type of top-down leadership is outdated, and, more importantly, counterproductive. This is how servant leaders create a culture of learning, and an atmosphere that encourages followers to become the very best they can. Adapted from. Alive at Work. Add to Cart.

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Attributes of an Effective Learning Leader

LSA Global

Robert Half found a strong learning culture correlates to a 30 to 50 percent higher employee retention. Without a clear alignment to strategic business priorities and a learning road map to address the most pressing organizational opportunities and challenges, the training and development function is doomed to fail.

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6 Signature Traits of Inclusive Leadership - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE DIGITAL

Harvard Business

We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world. This report makes the point that people in leadership roles are facing new demands because the context for leadership is changing. Does this new form of leadership that you call inclusive leadership demand a whole new approach to leadership?

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.