Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Zachary share about improving the mentoring process within a diverse workplace. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have a limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. Listen in as Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 19, 2021

During the hour webinar, they discuss: Emerging trends of relationship building, complex group work, diverse workforces, and cultures in which everyone feels psychologically safe. How to achieve the creativity, adaptiveness, and agility that organizations will need to survive and grow.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The workplace has become more diverse: mentors and mentees come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the diversity gaps in your mentoring relationships, this webinar is for you! Learn more and register here.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The workplace has become more diverse: mentors and mentees come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the diversity gaps in your mentoring relationships, this webinar is for you! Learn more and register here.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With today’s diverse, globalized workforce this culture of collaboration absolutely crucial; yet it often doesn’t happen because people and groups typically believe that the problem is always outside—the other team member, the other department, the other company. Can this be changed? Learn more and register here.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The workplace has become more diverse: mentors and mentees come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the diversity gaps in your mentoring relationships, this webinar is for you! Learn more and register here.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The workplace has become more diverse: mentors and mentees come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the diversity gaps in your mentoring relationships, this webinar is for you! Learn more and register here. The post Refire!

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you enjoyed this video, you may also enjoy our upcoming webinar with Ralph Brandt, organizational development consultant and managing partner at RDR Group, exploring whether diversity training really changes people. When we encounter others who are a different race or gender, it registers biochemically as a “stress response.”

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 21, 2019

As much as you may have a put together a diverse team, you need to be diverse in how you, the boss/leader-of-the-team/ employer/lead dentist, handle your people. You need, then, to constantly work on the diversity of your thinking. You certainly are going to find plenty of them if you hire a diverse staff.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

Diverse and inclusive workplaces have proven to outperform workplace cultures held back by fear. If you enjoyed this video, you may also enjoy the upcoming business masterclass with Timothy R. Clark, Founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, as he discusses The Path from Inclusion to Innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentiality, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. I’m richer for the diversity and love it that way. Self Leadership diversity introspection tolerance'

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. Diversity creates dissent, and you need that. Neither takes precedence over the other because both elements are needed for success. Malcolm Forbes. Isaac Newton. easy to do.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting shared 4 Exercises to Enhance Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts. Mary writes: “ We’ve always focused on intentional leadership and team development, but the last year has brought about a hyper-focus on making explicit how it ties to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Diversity of thought, opinion, and perspective yields richer and more productive outcomes. Self Leadership differences diversity inclusion' If acknowledged and taken into consideration, differences make us better.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership [link] Diversity is finally getting beyond discussions of race and gender to include experiences, talents, and ways of thinking. I’d like to add another type of diversity to the conversation — virtues. More than 2,500 years ago, Aristotle “created” the Virtues as a guide to leading a “happy life.”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Have you pinpointed all the ways you are driving diversity out of your enterprise? Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Is your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

They are more diverse, culturally, and generationally. Increasingly, leaders exist in diverse networks. There is no doubt that we live in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Leaders work in increasingly flatter and leaner organisations. We need to redefine which leadership capabilities matter most.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The book makes a compelling argument for exposing ourselves to and investing in diverse networks. But this isn’t a book about diversity. In contrast, our weak ties often build a bridge from one cluster to another and thus give us access to new information.” David Burkus , Friend of a Friend.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership Development diversity grow comfort zone inclusion tolerance' BIG works with individuals and organizations to create cultures of constructive dissent, respectful irreverence, unrelenting empathy, character-based leadership mavericks, and unparalleled performance.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 22, 2019

Examples include climate change, income inequality, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, stress and anxiety and lack of purpose and meaning. TEAMS collaborate & communicate well and cultivate diversity & inclusion. The current challenge for leaders is how do they navigate this new landscape they find themselves in it.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

This diversity stuff doesn’t work. Feeling internal and external pressure to have more diversity, some companies define diversity as “making the numbers,” and task Human Resources (HR) with hiring more women and minorities. That’s typically the beginning and end of attention companies give to becoming more diverse.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Instead, turn teams of people with diverse backgrounds and skills loose on the problem and see what happens. Bring together teams of diverse people with diverse skills, and understand that the users of your innovation will come up with uses that you never imagined. He called them the “Muckers.” Users Come Up with New Uses.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Leadership Development diversity inclusion micro inequities Pat Harris' BIG works with individuals and organizations to create cultures of constructive dissent, respectful irreverence, unrelenting empathy, character-based leadership mavericks, and unparalleled performance.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

In a word, diversity. Established in 1975, Centennial is a respected recruiting, coaching and career development company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The post is about the difference between simply hearing and truly understanding others.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2012

This past week, we had another Lead Change Tulsa breakfast dialogue and the topic was Effectively Leading Diverse Organizations. Posted in Self Leadership Sometimes, a description of what something is not helps to also describe what it is. Over 40 people, many new to Lead Change, joined us for this discussion.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Chris Edmonds of The Purposeful Culture Group provided Culture Leadership Charge: Diversity, Inclusion, and Voting. Priscilla Archangel of Archangel & Associates provided You Role in Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Shelley provides three mindset shifts needed to transform from technical professional to a manager.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 30, 2018

For questions that promote diversity, innovation and challenge, consider asking: Have I included everyone’s opinion, even those that are dissenting? Leaders who need to manage conflict, identify what customers value, negotiate, and leverage diversity will be more successful in complex organizational settings. What am I missing?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 21, 2013

With no prior supervisory experience, as one of a small handful of female staff in a mostly male prison, and with a highly diverse and contentious inmate population, she had been placed in charge of creating a clothing factory. Posted in Leadership Development Trial In a state correctional facility, Christine had a problem.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

She values diversity, novelty, and creativity; yet, she tunes out when she detects tunnel vision or monotonous repetition. Value diversity. Your appreciation of differences in feelings, perspectives, thoughts, and actions promotes a deeply diverse culture. Alaina prefers the Imaging style.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

He delves for diverse conclusions and the reasoning behind this diversity. He believes that only after fully grasping other points of view can he make an informed decision to accept or reject. Dalio suggests approaching any disagreement with thoughtful curiosity rather than antagonism and defensiveness. Being a Humble Learner.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Great leaders leverage diversity and appreciate talent. They actively seek out and leverage diversity of every type. They bring together the powerful forces of empowerment, accountability, and communication to build the foundation for a healthy culture of collaboration. Great leaders develop others and encourage them to be more.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Companies have done this by requiring employees to have lunch with someone outside their organization, fostering diversity, and establishing the office as a community through deeper connections. Encouraging employees to interact with others inside and outside the company can allow the chance for new ideas, and serendipity, to spark.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. Imagine how boring, constraining, and frustrating it would be to go into the ice cream parlor and find that vanilla is the only flavor available. Yet that singularity is what many bosses and employers make available to their employees. “We

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2013

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Team Dynamics As a leader I have encountered a diverse number of leaders each characterizing certain leadership styles. Some of these leaders have been effective, some not so effective, and some have been extraordinary. What type of leaders have I encountered?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skilled leaders build diverse teams for success and do not work in a vacuum. Posted in Self Leadership Team Dynamics Alliances are a key part of what a leader does. They are critical whether you are an employee, business owner, consultant, or volunteer. Alliances provide a network of trusted sources.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

Parker Deborah is Principal and Founder of the DPJ Training Group, which specializes in client result focused seminars on leadership, 360 assessment, diversity and communications for public and private sector audiences. Author information Deborah L.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture shared Culture: Diversity and Inclusion. Marcella asks: “Diversity and inclusion lift the financial bottom line, but: It only works if you work it. Check out this exercise to foster the awareness, appreciation and adoption of diversity—and include all people at work.”

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