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Disaster and Contingency Planning Lessons from the ICU

Lead Change Blog

In a hospital, lives are saved or lost long before patients’ treatment plans are written and implemented. Planning is Impersonal. Are you a leader tasked with planning for routine operations along with the response when routines are disrupted in ways big or small? When Plans Fail. Get on the planning committee.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Better Stakeholder Management: How to Turn Stress into Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. If you’ve been involved in stakeholder management for more than a minute, you’ve probably met a few of these well-meaning, challenging stakeholders. Sound familiar?

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How to Lead a Team That Suddenly Has to Work From Home

Let's Grow Leaders

This week we’ve received so many calls from leaders trying to figure out remote working contingency plans and from managers faced with implementing these new work from home policies. If you’re also trying to make the best of a new work-from-home scene, perhaps […].

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Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. The post Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You can become […].

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Managers: What’s Your Plan B?

Lead Change Blog

Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.

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Navigating Employee Leave and Absence Management

HR Digest

Employee leave and absence management can be a complex and challenging process for many organizations. Managing workplace leave and absences can have significant impacts on productivity , staffing, and overall business operations. Why is managing employee leave and absence important?