Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. Human Resources'

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. Next, we’ll explore how to convey this experience such that it opens the doors to a management position within one’s organization.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Once upon a time, a manager had a frog named Fred working on his team. ” Disappointed at Fred’s lack of commitment, the manager told Fred, “That negative attitude could be a real problem. .” On the first day of flying lessons, the manager could barely control his excitement. I am a frog, not a bird.”

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

David Grossman shares Change Management Communication: 5-Step Plan + Template. David says change management communication is an essential component of building awareness and support for organizational change. We all know we need to take time away from work but we often resist. Diversity, Language & Miscommunication.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Episode 1 – Standing Out Among Professional Peers, part 1 of 3 focuses on the need to stand out among professional peers and challengers both within your organization and when applying for external positions. how to communicate a desire to be considered for an open position to the hiring manager. Additional Information.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. In other words, culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement. Culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement.” Jason Richmond.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Some just get too attached to a position or a particular set of data. Human resource managers might not see and fully appreciate these savings, but our clients do. Our clients also appreciate the resistance we offer because their team members are often unwilling or afraid to provide it.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. We struggled for the first couple of years with having people in key positions that were either not prepared or not on board.”.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2011

Jennifer Miller offers us her most popular post of the year, and asks if people really care about leadership development, or if they just can’t resist a free offer. For me, the answer is both. (-: Check out her list of 25 free leadership development resources, at Do People Care About Leadership Development? posted at Bret L.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 17, 2013

You strive to make a positive impact , and you want to be known as someone who can get things done. They figured out how to get leaders to properly support the change and how to reduce resistance of those going through the change. Learn change management methodology and influence techniques through real-life application.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s easy to get stuck, wondering why what you’re doing isn’t working, lamenting all the resistance you face, and not knowing for sure what to do next. In 2008, I started Enclaria to help change agents like you make a positive difference in your organization and for the people who work in it. What is included?

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

While some businesses still resist this trend, modern technology has leveled the playing field for telecommuters and in-office staff. Moreover, employers can hire recent graduates and groom them for executive positions through sponsored MBAs or other advanced degrees. Telecommute Option. A Friendly Office Environment.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 17, 2012

If things go wrong for a customer initially, do a grand job of getting to the other side of that challenge and you may create a positive memory that literally supplants the initial unpleasantness. Strong company cultures are overwhelmingly knockoff resistant. If your customers feel at home. They’re unlikely to roam.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While our power base is growing it is vital to have our wisdom keep up with our positions of authority. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. This beginning part is about the women who have come before us, paved the way so we could move faster and with more assurance.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Survey employees, managers and department heads. HR is uniquely positioned in the enterprise to identify needs--individual, departmental, regional--and tie those needs to business goals. By bringing department heads and regional managers together with IT, HR can facilitate an implementation strategy that works for everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results. But we knew all this was just a starting point. ” Learning.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2009

So, if you are a leader positioned somewhere in the middle of the organizational pack or an individual who wants to make a tangible difference in your organization, how do you do it? What specific positive outcomes do I expect from it? What objections or resistance might there be to this change? How might I address them?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Given consistent research indicating CEOs’ disappointment with Human Resources, the call for change on the cover of last month’s issue of HBR ( It’s Time to Blow Up HR and Build Something New. Self-assessments of performance are more accurate than peer assessments but less accurate than a manager’s assessment.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Using nationally reported statistics from the World Bank (2011) , we found that nations with tighter cultures tended to have fewer female legislators, senior officials, and managers. For example, just 3% of leadership positions were held by women in Pakistan, but numbers stood at 38% in Ukraine. Cultural context matters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Analytically Resistant — This group tends to be skeptical and dismissive of the value of a data-based approach, preferring instead to rely on intuition. These expectations can be incorporated as explicit goals in performance management systems. Analytically resistant. Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Is it the responsibility of your company’s most senior managers, or should it be a more distributed responsibility? The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

I think much of the resistance to caring is about risk and having the confidence to take it! Specifically, in order to reward key personnel in our organizations, as well as to demonstrate how much we value their contributions, we end up ‘promoting’ them to leadership positions. To me, your comment says it all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. It even has management in the title. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. After two years in this position, I had an epiphany. My 22-year-old self thought, How cool is that ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Particularly if we are new to a job, low on the totem pole, highly dependent on the position, or wishing to make a good impression, we face a tough choice. Do we go along to get along or do we resist? The standard advice on conflict management suggests we try to find win-win solutions whenever possible. Broadcast no.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

HR seems to have become every manager and employee’s favorite corporate punching bag, vying with IT for the dubious title of most-irritating function. Second, we rank-ordered 49 leadership behaviors for all those in HR from the most negative to the most positive behaviors. Building positive relationships. Role modeling.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. To attract Nike’s business, Silver Star created a new set of human-resource policies, including the minimum-wage guarantee, health and old-age benefits, and an implicit promise to continue employing workers made redundant because of technological changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

On the positive side, Greece has tidied up its balance sheet (at least the privately held debt), and nearly balanced its budget, excluding interest payments. The fact is that Greece is monstrously inefficient as a manager of public services. Change management is the current imperative for Greece. It is past time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) Senior management should establish criteria for choosing the model cell. The expansion, which took three years and affected several hundred beds, required a full-time manager with assistance from the education department and human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Too much transparency can spark resistance. Managers can reap the benefits of transparency while minimizing its risks by doing four things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Resist, at all costs, any temptation to participate in idle gossip or rumour mongering. I hadn’t thought of it in quite that way but it makes me think that casual conversation can indeed create environments where unexpected and positive things can happen. Thanks for coming by! Reply Rich G. I just can’t handle it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

We can transform the way people work to achieve change on a mass level, and every manager can encourage sustainability by making one modification that would benefit the environment. Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability.

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