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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

He began his career in sales and sales management with a division of a Fortune 500 company in the aerospace and defense industry. From Loma Linda University in marriage & family therapy, where his concentration was in organizational development and systems consulting. His formal education includes a Ph.D.

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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. Jossey-Bass.

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Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective By Jim Smith on August 16, 2010. We need just a bit more theory before we can take the next step, which is broadening this monologue on systems from theory to principles of re-design and change.

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Designing and Building Real-Time Learning Systems | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Designing and Building Real-Time Learning Systems By Jim Smith on May 17, 2010. ” The response to the second question is on the one hand, “isolated problems,” and on the other hand, “whole systems.”. Translate This. Library Blogs Home.

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How a Remote Australian Mine Became a Gender-Balanced Workplace

Harvard Business

While many industries have struggled to reach — and sustain — gender equality, progress has been particularly slow in mining and other traditionally male-dominated industries.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

This group of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology practitioners took turns sharing how they found their way toward our aligned passions of how people think and behave in the workplace. I started working at the age of 16 in 1992 as an industrial cleaner on nights and weekends with my friend Mark.

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

Successful Independent Consulting

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. I have never heard a client say, “We need someone to come in and do some organizational development.” What was the industry?