Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. Soon team members began popping their heads into my open door. “Do During my time as an Open-Door Policy devotee, I don’t recall team members ever tattling on themselves. Do you have a minute?” they asked.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 22, 2015

Leaders should focus now on coaching their teams to take action on the best information they have available, for the event of having perfect data to make decisions will never occur. A simple remedy to inspire action is a 2 X 2 approach that focuses on changing our mindset to embrace change and stop waiting for perfect circumstances.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

2010: Mom has been “stepped down” from assisted living into memory care. The walls and ceiling have huge holes in them, and a HAZMAT team has come searching for mold. Such was the case as I began my annual purge of old documents and computer files. I discovered an article I had written years ago during the holiday season.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

It’s a team of skilled musicians with shared values and common goals. We have formalized team values – citizenship standards – that we demonstrate in every interaction with each other, with clients, and with guests. Psychometrics Canada’s 2010 Engagement study surveyed HR professionals in over 360 organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

All of us are spending more time in meetings than we did five years ago, and this trend is expected to continue (Lee 2010). In the United States alone, there are 11 million meetings daily (Koehn 2013). You put a lot of time and effort into meetings. The problem is that the effort is often misplaced.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Tom Rath and Jim Harter, The Economics of Wellbeing , Gallup Press, 2010 and Shawn Achor, Positive Intelligence , Harvard Business Review, January-February 2012). They don’t have to volunteer as a team, though that’s a powerful relationship benefit. They are TEN TIMES more engaged. They generate 37 percent more sales.

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