Rick Conlow

APRIL 23, 2023

Servant Leadership is an unstoppable force for positive change that can transform toxic workplaces. Current leadership approaches fail to realize employee potential and the connection to business success. Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2022

Understanding the rapidly changing business environment will be essential to ensure efficient and effective leadership going forwards. COVID-19 has revealed that systems we thought had reached a point of relative stability can suddenly become volatile and unpredictable. Change 1: From engaging to inspiring. The bottom line.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. And managers don't realize inspect-and-adapt is a necessary part of an agile culture.). Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

You've probably experienced this to some extent before, and maybe now you're in a leadership position. Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How Unwritten Rules Shape Corporate Culture Corporate culture stands as the heartbeat of any organization. Corporate culture influences everything from employee engagement and retention to customer loyalty and profitability. These hidden forces represent how unwritten rules shape corporate culture.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 17, 2023

This is the fourth installment in our blog series, Taking up the Leadership Challenge about James M. Posner’s classic work The Leadership Challenge. This blog is about the third of their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and goes by the name Challenge the Process. Leadership Challenge: Are you Anchored or Adrift?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. How can you see your system and your culture?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 11, 2022

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The new Proqis BTOES Insights report on operational excellence is out, and by a landslide margin (55% to 37%), the most critical challenge for respondents is “improving the company culture.” Anytime I read that culture is a stumbling block for companies pursuing continuous improvement, I go back to John Shook’s reflections on NUMMI.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. Holding others accountable isn't easy, but it significantly impacts your leadership and business results. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Are You Leveraging Your Corporate Culture Mechanisms for Change? Organizational culture matters. And when Deloitte looked at culture through workers’ eyes, they reported that 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe that an aligned and clear company culture is key to a company’s success.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 28, 2023

That’s where leadership development programs come in. Through courses, coaching sessions, and training modules, they can improve their leadership skills and become the manager they need to be for their business. Why is Leadership Development Important? However, knowing where to begin can feel overwhelming.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2021

See the Insubordination vs Caring About the System post for more information.). The SM might not realize the SM's job is to create a culture where everyone can do their best job. See the series about Organizational Culture ). Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). You might need other questions.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2022

If you don't know about congruence, how we balance the self, other, and context, please read Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture.). However, our systems of paying for “individual” performance demand that we try. Money decisions reflect your culture. They think that fairness is part of their culture.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 2, 2022

Leadership Team Alignment Matters Just as poorly aligned tires can cause your car to drift off course, poorly aligned leadership teams can send your organization in the wrong direction. A major factor is the lack of leadership team alignment. The question is “how can you create leadership team alignment.”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2021

Your Preferred Workplace Culture Most leaders, especially those with new teams or at early growth stages, work hard to create a meaningful organizational culture they want for their organization that makes sense to them and their teams. But they then ask, “How do you reinforce your preferred workplace culture?”

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LSA Global

AUGUST 5, 2022

Are You Confusing “Communicating Change” with “Leading Change” to Shift Cultures? Change management consultants know that corporate culture change is not easy and can be frustratingly slow ? Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some ideas: Streamlining the build and deploy systems, to reduce lead time. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Seeing bottlenecks in the team, to reduce cycle time.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2022

Refresh or Reset Corporate Culture? Your culture can either help or hinder your business and people strategies. The combination of COVID, the great resignation, and high inflation has caused many leaders to focus on their organizational culture. and employee engagement. and employee engagement.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That's how you can create the culture you want.). And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? And, you work on the system, the environment, not the actual product work itself. Get Paid to Lead, Not to Deliver.

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LSA Global

MAY 7, 2021

Are you aiming for culture change and coming up short time after time? Any kind of organizational change is challenging; but culture change can be especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors regarding how work gets done. You need to understand why culture change fails. You’re not alone.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2022

Where Corporate Culture Fits For some, workplace culture can be overwhelming. Savvy business leaders understand the importance of culture in terms of business performance and employee engagement. To create an effective foundation, you need to know how to shape your corporate culture.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 4, 2018

Culture Defines Your Company. When we ask experienced leaders what matters most, 7-out-of-10 say “Establish your culture.” Companies can be defined by their leaders, by their products, by their services, by their industry, or even by their performance, but culture touches everything. The Definition of Workplace Culture.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

.” - Patrick Lencioni If you’ve engaged with us before today, you're familiar with one of our favorite soapboxes: Organizations can only be as healthy as their leadership team is healthy. Check out our Managing with Mind & Heart leadership development program.] We need to establish a clear and consistent leadership culture.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Worldwide corporate leadership became more aware and interested in employee opinions and satisfaction, sparked by incredible competition between organizations to hire the best and brightest. Leadership & Succession. However, there is no measurable data to confirm this belief.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). See Insubordination vs Caring About the System. See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead. Why Do You Make Decisions For Others?

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Other salespeople follow this pattern of behavior, and the company’s integrated systems cannot update information in real-time, meaning people do not receive the right message at the right moment to make important sales and marketing decisions. The following examples of leadership styles have their uses and their weaknesses.

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LSA Global

MARCH 4, 2023

Consistency of Your Corporate Culture We know from assessing organizational cultures that the way people think, behave, and work can either help or hurt your business and people strategies. In terms of business and people performance, the importance of workplace culture cannot be underestimated. Should they?

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LSA Global

JULY 6, 2022

Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? At a recent HR Strategy Retreat , the Chief People Officer asked her team, “Is our corporate culture too nice to execute our growth strategy?” Certainly, treating your colleagues politely is a good thing but can you and your workplace culture take “niceness” too far?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at TOMS. ———— History & Culture. Continuing to expand, in 2014 the company took on a new goal: to bring clean, safe drinking water to cities in need while creating a sustainable system therein.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

“We have a great culture.” Culture is often referred to as “the way things are done around here.” A great culture is what you get when all three of these are aligned, and line up with the organization’s espoused values. How, then, do we repair a flagging culture? We have all said it.

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