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3 Approaches to Culture Change: What Works

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Trying to change culture by decree or through training programs won’t affect people’s beliefs. That really shakes things up and gets change going – especially if you replace them with new people who come in with a different attitude about the company and the work. One way to change the culture is to fire a lot of people.

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Stewardship Is an Alternative to Leadership

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” According to Peter Block, author of the seminal bestseller Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest , “A few companies like Harley-Davidson and some Silicon Valley companies like AES are doing it differently. Here in the United States, the answer is, “not so well.”

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3 Tips for Career Conversations That Energize and Engage Employees

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The article concluded with these suggestions: “offer more training and education. Companies can and should offer targeted programs for employee growth, but the real power in employee engagement remains in the relationship between the employee and their boss. This is not good news if employers want an upbeat and engaged workforce.

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Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential

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Bill is also the author of the bestseller Courage Goes to Work and Courageous Leadership: A Program for Using Courage to Transform the Workplace, an off-the-shelf training toolkit that organizations use to build workplace courage.

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Does Your Organization ASPIRE?

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For example, when the organization had a vision that involved teamwork, it had also developed systems that rewarded people for team accomplishments and trained people in effective team skills. However, in high performance organizations, systems and structures are supportive. Perpetual learning. High performance organizations account for both.

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The Value of Vision Series – Ken Blanchard

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Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. Ken is the cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies , an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, began in 1979 in San Diego, CA.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

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In Why Your Employees Are Not Working Efficiently , he points out it’s not just a simple matter of proper training. Miller of The People Equation explores how coaching, training and 360 degree feedback is a key strategy for creating an organization that’s responsive to change. Do KRA’s and Rewards Help in Quality?