Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 21, 2010

OD vs. Training – Or Is It? For example, many Organization Development practitioners almost look down on training as scoped to working only with individuals and not the broader context of organizations as does OD (by the way, we OD’rs prefer that you capitalize the name of our field. Are You Doing OD? Consulting? All of These?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

The initial phase has been referred to by a variety of names, for example, Start-Up and/or Entry. NOTE: The client might refer to the need for the project as an “issue,” if there is a current, major problem, or as a “goal,” if the project is to make good things even better. If so, what did they try?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Executive coaches commonly use an hourly, value-based, retainer, or productized pricing. A good executive coach is trained and qualified. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is a globally recognized association with evidence-based competency and code of ethics certification requirements. References: Ahrend, G.,

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

90% of them reference ethical behavior or use the word “integrity,” 88% mention commitment to customers, and 76% cite teamwork and trust. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The types of services provided by these consultants are often referred to as technical assistance. They help leaders and managers be more productive at planning, organizing, leading and coordinating resources in the organization. Some people refer to specialists and generalists as overall, major types of consultants.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? References.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 30, 2012

The term “paradigm,” especially in the broad field of human and organization development, refers to our overall way of seeing things – our overall way of thinking about something. The adult development theories include the solution-focused therapy, which is often referred to by the field of personal and professional coaching.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

After the study was published, media reports began to refer to Modafinil as the world’s first safe smart drug. That said, faking might not be necessary if a doctor deems your desired productivity level or your stress around a big project as reason enough to prescribe medication. The Big Questions.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2012

Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid looked at the role of management in integrating concern for people with concern for productivity, using a system-wide approach. — Reference List of Books from This Series. References List of Books from This Series. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Read more.]. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

” The former phrase refers to the nature and scope of change in organizations, i.e., the change is to the entire organization or to a significant portion of the organization. The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. Read more.]. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A major advantage of this approach is that it gives a strong sense of order in an otherwise chaotic situation and provides a common frame of reference from which people can communicate in the situation. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Training and Development. Verify if the problem has been resolved or not.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

The world as we experience it is the product of perception not the cause of it. I referred to this two posts ago. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

” The former phrase refers to the nature and scope of change in organizations, i.e., the change is to the entire organization or to a significant portion of the organization. The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. Pre-Historic OD?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Sometimes it happens that a candidate who had the right credentials, seemed to fly through the interview process, and had lovely references turns out to be an unexpected problem after hiring. We developed an intensive training program to equip him for the new role and ensure a smooth transition. Catherine Lane/Getty Images. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2018

Scaling to group settings can have an Orwellian feeling: Concerns about privacy, creativity, and individuality have these experiments playing on the edge of ethical acceptance. More importantly, adequate psychological training for the people in power is required to interpret the emotional results, and to make adequate adjustments.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

Marvin Weisbord, my long-time ODN colleague and friend (also steeped in the Lewin/Lippitt school), shared his research with me both in his marvelous book, Productive Workplaces, and in personal conversations. Meanwhile other individuals and groups in the plant doing the same work had no appreciable increase in productivity.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 26, 2012

Rice Institute, trained in Bion’s ‘Group Relations’ work, connected with people trained in the emerging ‘applied behavioral science’ work of Lewin and his followers, Ken Benne, Ron Lippitt, Warren Bennis, Ed Schein and others. — Reference List of Books from This Series. References List of Books from This Series.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. And then there are ethical challenges. But what are the ethical issues of potentially collecting photos of barely dressed consumers?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 14, 2012

.” NOTE: Most of what I have learned about Frederick Taylor I received from my long-time OD colleague, Marvin Wseibord, both in personal conversations and from his marvelous book, Productive Workplaces. No one in our long chain of OD ancestors is as controversial as Taylor. Consulting Engineer. a Specialty.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Robust training programs and fun company social life take the edge off hard work and long hours, but it’s “up or out” for consultants (“up or out” refers to the mentality that a consultant needs to reach a certain level in the company by a certain time or they could be let go).

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within change management, we learn that when people resist change, we should let them vent and express their negative emotions in a safe and productive way. Complain to an AI, and you may train it in a biased manner because of its inability to reason, think, or feel. References JRE University. link] Purdue University.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. Finally, check those references! People who are fired for breeding distrust are serial job hunters.

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