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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. The executives, who huddled behind closed doors in the corner office, anticipated the typical buzz of energy with the promise of free pizza. Picture a fall Friday morning in a downtown office. Around 10:30 a.m., Others simply disengaged.

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The Power of Mindfulness

Brimstone Consulting

The costs to our productivity and our personal wellbeing of this involuntary attention are enormous. All distractions disappear, and we feel a sense of focus, energy, and aliveness. He is a former corporate executive with extensive background and experience as an organizational development specialist and executive coach.

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A Quiet(er) Mind

Brimstone Consulting

Even a few minutes of mindfulness practice daily allows the mind to rest, leaving us refreshed and able to lead with more energy, clarity, and focus. He is a former corporate executive with extensive background and experience as an organizational development specialist and executive coach. The Power of Mindfulness.

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The Power of Mindfulness: Remember, Recenter, Re-engage

Brimstone Consulting

Now, having remembered the present moment, and having recentered, we can re-engage with the fresher, calmer energy that we are experiencing. He is a former corporate executive with extensive background and experience as an organizational development specialist and executive coach. The Power of Mindfulness.

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Building Organizational Muscle

Kates Kesler

Both muscles in the body and capabilities in the organization: Turn energy into motion using positive tension. The challenge is to build the necessary components to ensure successful organizational development through several cycles to ensure the muscle is conditioned and developed to deliver.

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Put an end to the “Eternal Wednesday” and the “New Normal”

Brimstone Consulting

In the emergency phase, there is energy and a sense of urgency and purpose. Collaboration and productivity increase as people instinctively pull together. In the regression phase, people are tired, they lose their sense of purpose, and they start to fight about the small stuff—productivity and engagement decline. Burned out.”

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business

Organizational Development Book. They then experimented with transforming their own production line using the new techniques. In two weeks, the production team made lean manufacturing their own, reducing internal defects by 30% and improving productivity by 25%. We feel more alive. Adapted from. Alive at Work.