Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Bias mistake #2: Believing that training eliminates bias. Because the preference for competitiveness is ingrained and viewed as a positive, training about not discriminating won’t help because the inclination isn’t seen as bias but rather as just “fitting in.”. “An Groupthink says it’s brash extroverts that make the company thrive.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. No matter how much training you give them, you can’t really change someone’s personality. You’ve probably heard the advice: “Don’t hire for skills, hire for culture fit.”. But the reverse isn’t always true.

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HR Digest

MAY 11, 2019

The first step to addressing unconscious bias in the workplace is to acknowledge that it can be done by offering awareness training. Leaders at PricewaterhouseCoopers, for example, go through awareness training. A form of groupthink which prevents individuals from thinking independently. Bandwagon Bias. Conformity Bias.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions. The vast majority of senior leaders across nearly all organizations throughout the United States and Europe are white men.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Companies that want to help their employees become better stewards of cybersecurity need to go beyond regular trainings on password security and other basic protocols. The best way to train employees to defend against hackers is to teach them how to think like one. Alan king/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. Jenny McConnell, Deputy Head of School at SERC – Training Provider of the Year 2. In 2023, many fell below those standards. Are you on track to become Chartered?

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

” A team leader keeps an underperforming employee because of the time and money spent on their training. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2012

These formed after reading a great article by Susan Cain in the New York Times called "The Rise of the New Groupthink." It proceeds the way my marathoner friends tell me their winter training runs go: with a lot of initial discomfort and why-am-I-doing-this? If and when you get into a flow, solitary work becomes fantastic.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

” A team leader keeps an underperforming employee because of the time and money spent on their training. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict. Also know as “throwing good money after bad money.”

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

This may require a little cross-training, but that’s a good thing. But after a while, even the best ones can descend into groupthink and lose their creative edge. The change will add depth to your team and build a greater appreciation for how everyone contributes to team success. Shuffle the team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. His logic was simple. We all prize it. Learn to Deal with Ambiguity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, Amazon encourages disagreements to avoid groupthink and leverage the benefits of cognitive diversity. The implications are obvious: if you want your team to embrace, or at least keep up with, the current data revolution, and approach work in a more evidence-based way, you will need to train them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While there are no right or wrong types, having too many people with similar personalities tends to lead to problems and groupthink. If they are self-aware and can demonstrate that they love learning new things, we can train them tactically on the ins and outs of the job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Their report found that the pilots, although well-trained, had fatally misdiagnosed the reasons that the plane had gone into a stall, and that their subsequent errors, based on this initial mistake, led directly to the catastrophe. What — or who — was to blame?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Groupthink is a real thing. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012. Though written millennia ago, most of it sounds like something you would say this very day to someone you were counseling to keep them from making a big and costly mistake. DAN COOPER.

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