Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Make it safe. Death and taxes have traditionally been viewed as the two guarantees in life, but I think a third item has officially made the list: change. The pace of change accelerates with each passing, day, month, and year. Yet research has shown that 70% of all organizational change efforts fail, cost more, or take longer than expected.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

Can you feel their pain? You did a fantastic job thinking about your culture and engaged the entire organization to define the values. He says culture is simply “People like us, do things like this.” Let’s say two of your values are “Quality” and “Speed.” We worked together to define our values.

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Leading Blog

JULY 30, 2021

While we spend a good deal of time preparing our kids for success in the physical world, Richard Culatta says, “we have put surprisingly little effort into making sure our kids are prepared to be safe and healthy” in the digital world. For all the good the virtual world has to offer, it is also filled with wicked problems.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2017

In most work environments, employees perform their tasks in a team structure. But if you’ve worked in a team setting, whether that be in school, sports, or the modern workplace, you know this is easier said than done. Below are some tips on how to create psychological safety on your team. This can be very frustrating.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? David says, “Taking talent and turning it into performance comes down a lot more to the culture of the team.” What are the characteristics of a great team?

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When I asked, “Which works better for you? Not surprising necessarily, but how do you do it? Not surprising necessarily, but how do you do it? Here’s the best advice from each of the eight executives on how to build a go-to team: Create a Safe Environment. Make the Roles Clear. As Cynthia Horner, M.D.,

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

Also, when you need to lead into change. Whichever way you choose to look at leadership, leading change is one of your most challenging and, at the same time, essential tasks. When team members don’t do what (or how) you want them to do, you send them off to a training. Change requires a culture where change is possible.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. What do leaders say in such conversations? If you’re not a boss, what would you say and how?

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. While Boseman’s presence is missed in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, you can sense how much the producers, directors, and actors cared for their fallen star. She refuses and says she must find a cure. Boseman was hailed as the quintessential Black Panther.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now that we have a base of experience, it’s time to think about how we can create virtual teams that are truly effective and will serve us well in the long haul. Now that we have a base of experience, it’s time to think about how we can create virtual teams that are truly effective and will serve us well in the long haul.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the key change driver in his organization, Daniel highlighted the importance of having the support of the whole Executive Board to create an agile work environment to drive a successful transformation. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design. Boris Dragovi?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

President Franklin Roosevelt is credited with saying a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. The context for Strategic Resilience is dynamic fluidity in the operating environment. The context for Strategic Resilience is dynamic fluidity in the operating environment. Strategic Resilience. Leading through Multivariate Normal.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Jim Haudan and Rich Berens hope to help you uncover five common leadership blind spots by exposing the underlying assumptions behind the consequences we see played out over and over again in all types of organizations. If you have a clear purpose, there is usually a good story behind it. In What Are Your Blind Spots?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

– Female, 47 Dubai (from our World Workplace Conflct and Collaboration Survey) You would think by now, we’d be past the need to write about dealing with a workplace bully. If you’ve Googled this and are here. If you’ve Googled this and are here. You shouldn’t have to deal with a bully at work.

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Lead from Within

MAY 4, 2023

As a leader, it’s inevitable that you will be called upon to have difficult conversations. However, by following a few key strategies, you can make difficult conversations easier and less daunting: Be clear on the intent : Before you even start the conversation, it’s important to be clear on your intent.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Vision – the future state picture of what a business seeks to create in the world – informs leaders’ activity choices and serves as a conduit between the organization and its stakeholders. Warren Buffet has a terrific saying – it’s only when the tide goes out that you can see who’s swimming naked.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

Creating an LGBT-friendly workplace isn’t just the right thing to do, it makes business sense, too. “Inclusive workplaces ensure employees are safe, respected and able to fully contribute” says Jackie Ferguson, Head of Content & Programming at The Diversity Movement. According to Gallup, 7.2%

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The CEO must create a vision that inspires others. The CEO must create a uniquely fertile organizational culture in which people are encouraged to work together. Tell us what you think. To say the least, this is not an easy transition. Do surgeons have a God complex? Are doctors stubborn, control freaks? Sometimes, yes.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In my post Once You Understand Emotion, Motivation Is Easy , I laid the link between Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory and current emotions. When people feel safe, connected and autonomous they generally experience a sense of well-being. Self-Determination Theory and the basic psychological need for safety.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2020

Are you working from home now? If you or your team have never worked this way it can certainly be a challenge for anyone, whether you are an employee or a leader this can be a frustrating change. as if you are going into the office, to jumpstart your day. as if you are going into the office, to jumpstart your day.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

As we continue to anticipate and prepare for a post-pandemic world, it’s safe to say that the working world, as we knew it, won’t return. Creating a team environment with the tools available. During the pandemic, not only did the concept of “office” shift dramatically but so did the needs and preferences of workers.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

After all, if you need to pivot your business model and set yourself up to succeed in whatever environment presents itself next, you need to have those two qualities embedded in your culture. Some companies have been successful in pivoting quickly, while others have found it more challenging. As in: Why this initiative?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

To achieve culture change, you don’t want to be scared of the conflict between values. When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. Culture Change Not Working? 00:20 Hey, welcome to the show.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Great questions break down assumptions and create possibilities. In the rapidly changing environment, we are in today, it is imperative. In the rapidly changing environment, we are in today, it is imperative. Until you ask different questions, you can’t move beyond the incremental progress most of us find ourselves in.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 13, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety, ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

I’m not in the camp of it’s all about your strengths and you should focus on finding roles that allow you to just optimize them. But, if all you focus on is “what you need to fix,” you’re missing a lot of the opportunities available to you by leveraging your strengths. Big mistake. Don’t get me wrong.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Did I say hello to a stranger in the cafeteria? When the brain performs its neural magic, it creates a pathway that can quickly become our default way of thinking. These neural pathways and leadership formulas make us feel safe, and we become comfortable and confident with our expertise. But are we leading? Truly leading people?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2024

I had already toyed with the idea of skipping my icebreaker question, “What music lyrics mean something to you?” I had already toyed with the idea of skipping my icebreaker question, “What music lyrics mean something to you?” How do facilitators consistently create the right environment for learning?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2017

I know more than you. But Ed Hess and Katherine Ludwig say that in the new Smart Machine Age, that’s losing game. Are you ready? In short, say the authors, we need to acquire and continually develop four fundamental NewSmart behaviors : Quieting Ego. S MART used to be a quantity game. “I I get more things right.”

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

What is the first emotion you feel when you receive an email, text, or phone call from your boss that says, “I need to speak with you?” We are constantly assessing our environment for threats and making determinations about potential impacts to our well-being. What’s driving leaders to create this culture of fear?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2017

Charles-Guillaume Etienne is said to have penned the phrase, “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” Because brain development and growth occur throughout one’s lifetime, it is safe to say that it is possible to build good leaders in an organization. How can you make opportunity knock?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Focusing on the color of the speaker’s eyes is a good trigger to help move your concentration toward the person speaking and away from whatever is distracting you at the moment. If it feels almost impossible to keep your mind on the person speaking, you won’t be able to build trust. People want to be seen and heard.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The pillars of diversity and inclusion are aimed at providing a view of inclusion using common elements to create a diverse and inclusive environment. Inclusion in the workplace is also more than the physical, it also about the feel of the work environment and culture put in place. That’s where the pillars of inclusion come in.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead. You don’t begin this journey to authenticity and vulnerability by giving away the store. Some environments carry more risk than others. Creating a safe space for others involves: 1.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

Children who form secure attachments feel loved and safe and, as a result, are more likely to set out to explore the world knowing that they can return to their parents for comfort and protection if they feel unsafe or threatened. The principles are relevant for individuals, community groups, sports teams, nations and even families.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2018

While you can’t learn everything in 30 minutes, a new hire will at least have one friendly face in each department to go to and a starting point for exploring further. One of the best parts of my job is when I get to sit down with new hires, welcome them to the company, and talk with them about what I and my department do. Of course I can.

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