Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Welcome to the December 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! Jon writes: “ With the crazy 2020 economy, all of my clients have restructured in some way. Marcia shares: “ How do you create a vision and set goals when the future is uncertain? Communication. ” Find Joel on Twitter at @JoelGarfinkle.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! In this post, Robyn shares the importance of making time for reflection—as individuals, as leadership teams, and as organizations—and offers guidance on discerning the past to create what we want moving forward, so that we can continue to be the leaders we most want to be.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing, and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Develop leaders!

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Welcome to the May 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! A good business-sense, extensive life experience, having a good judge of character, and the ability to see-through-the-fog towards the intended goal will help most people make the ‘right’ call as needed – when needed. Communication. It’s lonely at the top.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2020. The Innovation Ultimatum helps leaders understand the key technologies poised to reshape business in the next decade and prepare their organizations for technology-enabled change. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Last year innovation group Solverboard published their first Innovation Blockers Report to help shed some light on the main challenges organizations face in growing innovation to scale. The post 5 Barriers To Innovation In 2020 first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For most organizations, 2020 was heavily tilted toward understanding – understanding COVID-19 and its impacts to daily life and business, causes and solutions to racial problems, and how to find certainty in uncertain circumstances. Strategies are the bundling of chosen activities, and not to be confused with goals or objectives.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Abilene : Loneliness and Belonging in Organizational Life by @edbatista Organizations frequently take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purposes they are trying to achieve. How did 2020 position you for 2021? Here’s a Goal: Set Better Goals by @MichaelCanic.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

What’s clear today is that each organization is traversing a series of temporary normals – brief chapters in their company’s story, accelerated as conditions change. Holding this dynamic perspective helps leaders synchronize their organizations with the reality of fluidity. Resilient cultures survive. Practicing Strategic Resilience.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 8, 2020

2020 has been challenging for all of us. It has been especially challenging for leaders trying to navigate their organizations through it. Yet, as I reflect on some of the decisions I have personally had to make this year, I realize some things 2020 didn’t change about leadership. That includes pastors and the church.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Despite the challenges of 2020, it’s essential for leaders to engage in year-end reviews as a way to celebrate accomplishments, extract learnings, and enhance trust and connection. Diana Peterson-More shared Communications in 2020: Three Tips for Year-End & Forward to 2021. Is 2020 yet “in the books?” Engagement.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 12, 2020

The Ken Blanchard Companies recently unveiled the results of their 2020 HR Learning and Talent Development Trends Survey. Over 800 Learning and Development professionals participated in the survey, comprising a wide cross-section of roles, age, and level of responsibility in organizations. 2020 L&D Trend Survey: 4 Key Takeaways.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. So how do you find those top performers and disrupters that can take your organization to new heights? With demand for top executives outstripping supply choosing the best search firm to partner with can have a critical impact on the future of your organization.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

They are fighting for what they want, and organizations that don’t meet them in the middle will simply be left behind. Droves of women left the workforce in 2020. Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2020. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the current environment, you’ll need to do more than present the goals and expect execution. Seidman, founder and chairman of an ethics and compliance company and an organization promoting values-based leadership, honed in on what the best leaders have in common: trust, hope and humility. Are you optimistic about the future?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available starting August 18, 2020, the authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. It’s impractical.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Positioned at the heart of an organization’s strategic activities, the CCO is critical in determining its commercial direction and aligning it with overarching business goals. They promote a customer-centric culture within the organization, increasing brand loyalty and profitability.

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Coaching Ourselves

JUNE 30, 2022

This is the realization a concerned group of academics and business people came to prior to founding the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Initiative in 2020.The In 2015, the UN laid out the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an urgent call for action providing a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030.There

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The need for organizations to be attuned to their workforce’s values and needs has never been more critical. But this may be easier said than done, as organizations that are looking to compete in today’s competitive talent market feel compelled to match competitor moves and respond to workers’ expressed preferences as quickly as possible.

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HR Digest

MARCH 1, 2024

A Gallup employee engagement survey has raised concerns regarding the significant decline in Gen Z employee engagement since March 2020. The low levels of Gen Z employee engagement are also inevitable as they appear the easiest to replace for most organizations, with little hope for building “careers” in this economy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2024

This broad knowledge will empower you to influence change in the classroom, whether helping teachers implement new curriculum standards or improving how they help students meet established academic goals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects an 8% growth in this role between 2020 and 2030.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2021

2020 was a hugely stressful year for most small business owners, not least due to the challenges involved in ensuring that staff were kept as safe as possible from the virus. The researchers hope that their findings will encourage organizations to take health and safety more seriously, given its clear implications for employee wellbeing.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

These organizations are often resource-limited, which creates an incredible focus on only doing what really matters. They’re limited by the people available to them and the culture of the parent organization. To get started, take your current organization chart and delete the vice president positions. Beware of C-level fever.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His Eudaimonia Machine has the lofty goal of helping workers reach their full potential. When there isn’t a clear goal or a shared language, it’s near impossible for a culture to gel. JONAS ALTMAN is the author SHAPERS : Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future (Wiley, Sept 2020).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

Many organizations have been blindsided by the implications of social distancing. Some of these businesses are proving resilient though, pivoting to new ways of packaging value, going digital, doing delivery, and rethinking the way they can serve their organizations. They are not disproportionally more expensive to serve.

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The Office Blend Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

We all engage in goal setting. Yet goals can either help & hurt us, depending on their inherent ability to energize. They are essentially goals wrapped in a loaded, time-stamped, end-of-the-year package. As a coach, I’ve harped on clients to refine or even lose goals that no longer serve them.

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HR Digest

JUNE 23, 2022

Experts admit that the last two years have had a lasting impact on the future of work and human resource personnel must take them into consideration while setting compensation goals. As organizations plan their way forward, it is imperative that their goals align with the latest compensation trends.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Lorrie writes: “ We often work with clients who aim to improve communication within their organizations. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in organizations. Jay Jamrog explains How 2020 Changes What it Means to Be a Leader. Follow Lorrie on Twitter at @ohmyHR. Five themes emerged.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let Go to Pick Up : Those great mojo plans you have for 2020 likely include picking up some healthy and productive new routines or reinstituting old ones that have helped in years past. Here’s what I’m doing to maintain my mojo. A lot of my clients tell me their own versions of these routines are working for them as well.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” The researchers examined data from a pool of employed people via Mechanical Turk during October and December 2020. “These cycles have implications for organizations as well as for the employees themselves,” the researchers explain. That is pretty concerning as we recover as a nation from the COVID 19 pandemic.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2022

In cases where organizations have similar median monthly salaries, the company with the most salary reports takes first place. Remote work was mentioned unfavorably by 70% of 2020 summer interns, up from 50% in 2020. Remote work was mentioned unfavorably by 70% of 2020 summer interns, up from 50% in 2020.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 24, 2020

Most organizations want to enhance innovation; to achieve this goal they invest resources in new methodologies, technologies, training, physical spaces, and furniture. This is great… However, they often forget that they also need to invest in internal communication. Read more >>

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 4, 2021

Fred Dust -- Author of Making Conversation: Seven Elements of Meaningful Communication “There’s been a surprisingly joyful outcome of 2020—quite simply, leaders are seeing those they lead as humans. This will have a significant impact on the way your organization and your people move forward into a hopeful 2021.” 2019 is gone for good.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

This is where we find ourselves now in April of 2020—a true crisis. Dutch says organizations need to approach the crisis with a more “ entrepreneurial, innovative, and forward-looking leadership stance and convene a process to solve these problems in real-time. He adds, “That’s a fundamentally different kind of human challenge.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If we can take charge over those, we can lead our organizations, and our lives, to our own vision of success. Then, you need to direct your thinking and feeling patterns, and the behaviors that result, to evaluating reality clearly, making the wisest decisions, and accomplishing your goals. So how do our minds work?

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In certain aspects of work and life, it suddenly seems like 2030 instead of 2020. That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations. or “What’s supporting and what’s getting in the way of your goals?”

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