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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. Hal Leonard. Stubbers, J.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. Appreciative Inquiry: A Double-Edged Sword In dialogic organizational development practices, appreciative inquiry has emerged as a powerful tool.

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

Successful Independent Consulting

I have never heard a client say, “We need someone to come in and do some organizational development.” Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues. Best regards, These two exercises will help you identify your particular sweet spot. What problems do you solve? That’s the hard part.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Holiday, 2016) By these stoic virtues exercised by great historical figures throughout history, managers go beyond management to more adequately deliver results and reduce counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Am I vilifying business owners and executives?

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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. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself."

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

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2021, Dr. Casey DeBruyn recommended, based on my interests and the content of my schoolwork, that I consider organizational development (OD) and change management as career paths in consulting. Today’s exercise with the group and working with this Career Crisis card deck have illustrated that I have been placed on the right path.

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