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Change Management in Business: Overcoming Resistance and Optimizing Limited Resources

CO2

Two of the most pressing are change management and the constraints of limited resources. Understanding Resistance to Change Management: Stakeholder Concerns : Change resistance often stems from stakeholders’ fears and uncertainties. Human Resources Limitations : Talent is a finite resource.

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Embrace the New Norm by Listening to Your Employees

Leading Blog

Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure. Our nation’s workforce is undergoing a major transformation in attitude and priorities. What motivated someone 5 years ago - even two or three years ago - is not the same thing that motivates that same person today.

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Is Your Workplace Plagued by Disrespect? Take This Step to Disarm It

Leading Blog

Some organizations respond with well-meaning exhortations to “just get along,” or they encourage private chats with human resources or senior management. Strong, negative feelings make some people resistant to seeing offenders in anything but a negative light. Yet quite often, there’s no action taken at all.

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Instead of Making People More Anxious. Make the Learning Easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. This proved to be counter-intuitive to the Human Resources person that was working with me. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit. Make the learning easier.

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It Is Helpful to Listen, Agree, Cooperate. Discover Different Viewpoints :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. I was called back in for an emergency meeting with the managers + their managers + the Human Resources director. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit. How to work with this?

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Full-Spectrum Thinking

Leading Blog

Bob Johansen describes full-spectrum thinking as “the ability to seek patterns and clarity across gradients of possibility—outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories—while resisting false certainty.”. In an interesting chapter on Human-Machine symbiosis , he reimagines the human resources function.

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Help I Have a REALLY LAZY Coworker! How Do I Stay Motivated?

Let's Grow Leaders

” Start With You: What to Do When Your Coworker is Lazy Having spent many years in human resources, then leading large teams, and now working with leaders around the world, let me start here. Resist the urge to do all the things. It can be difficult to stay motivated. And might be dealing with it.