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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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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

When my turn came to address the group and deliver my reports, in answer to the question posed by the VP, “Why aren’t any of you speaking up in this meeting?” I submitted the report to the internal legal counsel because the organization does not have a human resource department. The president did nothing to stop the yelling.

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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

Additionally, I began a mentee relationship with Alan Landers, from whom I learned much about organizational development and change leadership through a certification course offered by The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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How to Align Executive Development with Organizational Values

Consulting Matters

When I was an organizational development consultant for Disney, I worked with the Imagineers and Operators. Culture happens, and values happen when people make decisions. Speaking of what's measurable, you have to look at things from the top down to evaluate organizational values and executive development.

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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. Gallup reports that learning opportunities are among the top three factors in keeping millennials engaged in their work. That means they should either report directly to the CEO or Chief Talent Officer. The Bottom Line.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. Improving your company's organizational change resilience is also connected to company culture. Culture mediates the knowledge and information-sharing capability. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

A talent calibration meeting is to review, assess, adjust, and agree upon a direct report's performance and potential within the organization and make development decisions. The leader of the direct report being reviewed should also identify the areas where the leader being reviewed should continue to develop.