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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).

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Foundations of Consulting ? Part 1 - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. The highly collaborative and facilitative internal consultant or leader does not always exercise direct control and often is quite successful in guiding change. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. Here, the rubber met the road when I could take how I learned to train others at St.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Without a good implementation strategy and effective implementation, scenario planning is nothing more than an intellectual exercise. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. Chermack, T.

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