Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He works for a large national, not for profit organization in the UK, and it is mired in yet another major restructuring process, driven, as ever, by dwindling funding. The current process has been on-going for months. Why so much change with so little apparent effect? Then act on that feedback. What to do now?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2021

In your international expansion timeline, you should try to add in as many short-term goals as possible. Try to make these goals as clear and quantitively accessible as possible. Doing this will mean that you are able to measure goals as you go, which will allow you to evaluate progress and restructure if necessary.

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

These conflicts can manifest as process conflicts, task conflicts, status conflicts, relationship conflicts, or personality clashes. Effective conflict resolution in the workplace is vital for meeting organizational goals and maintaining a positive company culture.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals. As HR leaders, it is our responsibility to make the process as smooth and respectful as possible. You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. Transformation processes demand risk taking, the development of new staff capabilities and a strong focus on innovation. Assessing your organizational immune system.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

The number of objectives the team was responsible for and the goals for each objective were increasing. We could analyze every part of our current processes and look for opportunities to improve our efficiency. Our restructure was different: It took some time for the team to warm up to the idea. Failure was not an option.

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HR Digest

MARCH 28, 2024

Despite how intimidating it sounds, once you summon the courage and take a chance on yourself, the process should start to feel more natural to you. Depending on the situation surrounding when you choose to ask for a promotion, you might have to alter your approach a little to ensure it suits the tone of the conversation.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team. What is Agile HR?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Up – the promotion path and perhaps even a ladder or two – may still exist and could still be a goal – for some. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. The hierarchy worked – for some.

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HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2023

“Why Good Employees Get Fired”— Every employer dreams of having a team of high-performing employees who can help the organization achieve its goals and objectives. Downsizing or Restructuring This can lead to the departure of top talent, even if they are good performers.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Employment termination is the process of ending a job contract. This type of termination of employment occurs either because the company needs to lay off some employees due to a lack of financial funds or business restructuring. This could be a result of finding a new job, personal reasons, or a shift in their career goals.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

All of our efforts to advance our goals are futile if we don’t have new leaders ready to jump onboard. Our director or board members recommended someone that they knew to join us or we scoured LinkedIn for prospects, and the process began all over again. Mark’s parable about a leadership journey was very relevant.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

Organizational Changes: Significant changes within an organization, such as restructuring, mergers, or layoffs, can trigger conflicts as employees grapple with uncertainty, fear, and changes in roles and responsibilities. Mediators can help facilitate open dialogue, guide the resolution process, and ensure fair and equitable outcomes.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. The whiplash from tech layoffs this time feels sharper as these roles are being swallowed up by AI-powered hiring tools that may have the potential to de-bias the recruiting process.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

They found “on average, 69% of employees don’t believe in the cultural goals set by their leaders, 87% don’t understand them, and 90% don’t behave in ways that align with them.” We designed and use the Commitment Continuum to assess behaviors showing how real that commitment truly is.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 31, 2020

.” “…provides senior management a huge opportunity to develop a trust-based culture rapidly…” “…working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how communication happens, how socialization happens, and how coordination happens.”

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels. As organizations seek to adapt to changing times, senior executives realize they can’t rely on change through simple restructuring and re-engineering.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring. Do they clearly reflect your top goals and priorities? He had no time left to look after his health and fitness. ” “I agree,” the HR director nodded.

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LDRLB

JUNE 23, 2010

Goldratt that is geared towarding help organizations continually achieve their goals. The theory contends that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints and that there is always at least one constraint. Subordinate all other processes to above decision.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

Examples: “A list of 3-5 three year goals”, “A shared vision”, “a shared understanding of each other’s concerns”. A restructuring? This is a creative process, where you begin to come up with ways to accomplish the desired outcomes. Ask: “What are the desired outcomes?” For example, is there a pending downsizing?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. If a team’s allegiance is only to procedures, its members lose out on what really matters–the process and the people that make it work. Confusion about goals. High turnover. Inflexibility in procedures. Failing to take initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. As the head of the U.S.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dozens of studies have shown that 50 – 70% of organization improvement initiatives like customer service, leadership development, performance management systems, restructuring, quality improvement, etc., And the entire process is transformed from development to evaluation. have failed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Examples: “A list of 3-5 three year goals”, “A shared vision”, “a shared understanding of each other’s concerns”. A restructuring? This is a creative process, where you begin to come up with ways to accomplish the desired outcomes. What’s the “desired outcomes”? For example, is their a pending downsizing? A new team member?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Or, commiserating with anyone who will listen about ALL THE THINGS (how they dislike a co-worker, a policy, customer, change, or process). I once had a client call me and say, “My boss just told me that there is going to be a major restructure and a significant downsizing. Being Overly Transparent. I may or may not have a job.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Streamlined processes lead to cost savings over time, while real-time data insights help leaders to make informed choices. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I later discovered they had a list of 37 urgent goals and objectives. They hired consultants and launched a series of restructuring and improvement projects in warehouse and shipping logistics, branding, renovating stores, revamping product lines, customer service training, IT systems, and the like.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

If you answer yes to any of these questions, then start the process of understanding why you don’t have an invitation. How will you advance the goal of the meeting? Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. Assess Your Value.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s possible to analyze the metadata for content themes and frequency of contact between departments, and to correlate this data with more traditional indicators of process effectiveness, cycle time, right-first-time, and so on. What this gives us is hard data on how processes fail in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Achieving goals was everything. Poor processes serve customers and manage people badly. Leaders who are intimidating can use their muscle to implement difficult changes that past leaders avoided — for example, an organizational restructure that disrupts an existing power hierarchy. He ruled by fear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In their minds, shaking things up is a decisive way to achieve goals. So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured? As mentioned, reorganizations are usually orchestrated to achieve certain goals. Finally, take a process view of your new organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. If you think one of your direct reports is prime for job personalization, I suggest beginning the process with a true-north conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". In his work on responsible restructuring, Cascio discovered profitable alternatives to employee layoffs. This strikes us as a knee-jerk reaction and a bad idea.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The coach’s main mandate in this engagement is to support the employee in becoming a “change agent,” helping the leader to anticipate and overcome the hurdles that come as the company restructures its customer experience. When the goal is organizational change, then the coach and the coachee work in tandem to go in one single direction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.” “I needed to trust the process.”

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Lead from Within

MAY 21, 2019

Make a list, create goals and then put in the effort, because you are the one who is going to be driving this process. Unlike most other learning and development processes, you are responsible for setting your own learning objectives, crafting session agendas and structuring the coaching schedule. Put in the effort.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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