Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Recently I’ve been learning how to handcraft leather goods and have taken workshops on data visualization. Alan has spent his learning budget on books about agile development and software team management. million students were enrolled in at least one distance learning course in fall 2014 – up 3.9

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Execution Education Learning-by-Doing Technology 247

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

What’s the best and most effective team you ever served on? Think of a team – at work, school, sports, neighborhood, wherever – where you genuinely contributed to the team’s goals and you were treated with trust, respect, and dignity in every interaction. I ask what that team was like for them.

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Power Audience Bond Workshop 150

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Recently I was helping run workshops on leadership at Texas Christian University (TCU), a university of just under 10,000 students based in Fort Worth, Texas. Andy Dalton, a 2011 TCU graduate who is quarterback and a member of the Cincinnati Bengals’ leadership team, is another fine example.

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Motivation Supply Chain Workshop Learning-by-Doing 326

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I love hearing that because it means we’re making an actionable difference for leaders, their teams and their organizations. I remember one Fidelity Investments program manager back in 2006 or 2007 who had multiple opportunities to watch me deliver one of my early workshops on leading at the next level.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2016

I wrote this post for another publication in 2014, but it appears they have deleted it. I’m preparing to do a workshop on how to nurture high potentials and found it in my archives. Follow these steps, and you’ll be sure to end up with nothing but a team of underperforming, lazy, C player slackers. Still looks relevant to me!

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Follow-up Micromanagement Mentor Workshop 120

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Set Clear, Specific Goals – Starting a BPM Project successfully means creating a Project Charter with the Process Owner, Executive Sponsor, Project Lead and Team Facilitator. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Start with that number and use them. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. One popular activity is the fast session – a short, structured workshop to address a specific problem.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 12

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Co-inventor of darifenacin (Enablex ).

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. You and Your Team Series. So who can actually help? What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job?

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Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In early 2014, they established a “catalyst fund” – a pool of money that internal innovation teams could use for doing rapid proof of concept on new ideas. The fund was announced on the company’s internal website and teams from anywhere in the businesses were invited to submit their suggestions.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

And both the managers and their new veteran team members may be unaware of the problem because they often lack an awareness of or appreciation for the cultural and language differences. ERGs help build connection, initiate conversations, and promote learning between veterans, and in many cases, their non-military team members.

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Company Commitment Agility Report 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 28, 2015

In Tindell’s excellent book, Uncontainable , he describes how he and his leadership team went on to shape The Container Store’s outstanding “employee first” culture in ways that reflect love. The first time I heard the word “love” uttered in a corporate context I was teaching a workshop on leadership for Lockheed Martin Aerospace.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Stress Airlines 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options. One example comes from the R&D division.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a 2014 survey from Deloitte , 86% of business leaders know that their organizations’ future depends on the effectiveness of their leadership pipelines — but a survey of 2,200 global HR leaders found that only 13% are confident in their succession plans, with 54% reporting damage to their businesses due to talent shortages.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

One proven method is investing in specific training for frontline managers, who often are promoted quickly into that position and have never managed a team. HMSHost will be launching workshops on engagement across the entire company. How can companies help their managers become more effective?

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Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

” You and Your Team. But there were many others — from the completely unstructured (communal tables for snack and lunch breaks and narrow corridors between presentation areas, which had everyone literally rubbing elbows) to the very structured (labs, masterclasses, workshops). Attending a Conference.

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Conference Microfinance Creativity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. And we convened two dozen investors and investment professionals from around the country in a unique, closed-door Financial Innovations Workshop to see the growth first hand and then to invent financial instruments that would help them profit from financing the growth.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Yet scaling is also a problem of less.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

This would be the case if the culture was authoritarian and it tried to use employee process improvement teams. There is no Process Owner who is designated and steps up to guide this effort, setting the goals, vision, measures, scope, and selecting and providing the necessary team resources. Overburdened team members.

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Project BPM Critical Success Factor Process 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. The BPM Team Facilitator provides this guidance during the charter meeting. What’s in it for Me?

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. More flexibility about making changes to ideas as they progress from concept to “minimum viable product” to finished product.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

” Created by the CU&I team and designed to inspire creative professionals, marketers, and researchers, the exhibit, which more than 600 Hallmarkers toured over a three-week period, featured an array of interactive, sensory-rich simulated areas of a consumer’s home.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But none articulates the workforce of the future as well as the observation of HR executives in a series of recent workshops we’ve led in in Hong Kong, Western Europe, and Silicon Valley. Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014.

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Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8