Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

When we are led by our ego, we see ourselves at the top of a pyramid, supported by people, policies, processes, and profits. Collins advises leaders to “channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.”.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. Not only was I going to have an Open-Door Policy, I was going to ace it! The Open-Door Policy did exactly what it was supposed to do. As I witnessed the economic effect of this Open-Door Policy in action, it made no sense to me. That was easy.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Policies – While necessary guidelines (or guardrails) for conduct, your company policies may impede the internal and external effectiveness of the organization. You may have to do some fact-finding to find the original germ of each policy and why they were instituted. Are there areas where this is shortchanged?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

You have an “Open Door Policy” so the two of you meet. Posted in Leadership Development A key employee on your team asks to speak with you about a sensitive issue in which you have a role. When she explains the issues from her point of view, your impatient response is: “I’m sorry you feel that way.”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

If your business has held onto strict 9-5, Monday-Friday working patterns for many years, this might be a tough nut to crack, but once it’s addressed and a more modern policy of flexible working introduced, any gender inequality issues should begin to subside. Why not make it a policy to ensure a 50/50 gender split within your business?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 11, 2020

We are too concerned with processes, systems, structures, and policies, instead of focusing on the people and how they communicate with each other. Why is this so? It’s because our focus on effective teamwork is overly technical.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

David Dye of Let’s Grow Leaders provided Three Problems with Your Open Door Policy and What to Do Instead. David summarizes: “ The intent behind your open door policy is good but the reality is more complicated. In fact, your open door policy may be causing your team more harm than good and limiting your leadership.”

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There tend to be rules, policies, procedures, or contracts in place to prevent one party from taking advantage of the other. Perhaps you’ve met them a few times, may know their names, and occasionally interact with them such as the clerk you regularly see at the grocery store, your plumber, or the teachers at your child’s school.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

So, for many years to follow, soldier after soldier engaged in a round the clock meaningless act in strict obedience to what quickly became a completely absurd policy. No one challenged the policy; they just did what they were told. Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

To address work-from-home burnout, reframe your company culture and policies from remote work as an emergency mindset to remote work being the new normal. Start with education about basic needs. Next, use the data from your internal surveys to pursue what seems to make the most sense. Conclusion.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Lauren mentioned that the business was able to reduce the threat of COVID-19 infections as a result of their strict policies when working onsite. It finally set the business back onto a productive course. This led to a lowered risk of accountability in case of an episode in their office.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What policies exist? If you don’t know what’s next, gear up for the future by figuring out all the resources you have onboard today. Who works here? What plans are in motion? When did that strategy start and why? How does the budget really work?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Save the you should directives for clear-cut policy or procedure violations that warrant disciplinary action. Helping, learning, and change only happen when there’s a willingness—from both parties—to explore without the certainty of rightness and wrongness.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2016

Not so far back on the calendar, I left a stable job as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor in Congress to take a dream deferred out of storage and put it into the world. Prior to that, she was a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor in Congress, co-founded a school in India, and briefly raised pigs in Italy. Maybe you would, too.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Your transformation zone. Your transformation zone sits where these three factors intersect, and how you respond to them defines your success. Successful businesses change their business strategy in response to market challenges.

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MAY 31, 2019

To build and maintain trust with followers, leaders need to exhibit fairness through the distribution of organizational resources and application of policies to all team members. It’s helpful to understand exactly what “fairness” means in an organizational context.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

So, they spend time looking at products and services, hierarchies, technologies, job descriptions, roles and responsibilities, rules, and policies, which are the tangible things that are easily grasped and wrestled with to make improvements. However, these are all impacted by human interaction—the glue that holds organisations together.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

I had a co-worker many years ago who told me, when I inherited a service he had previously led, that the service had no policy because then it could not be held accountable for its actions. I still encounter too many organisations that operate by the seat of their pants – no vision, no values, no mission, and no strategy.

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APRIL 6, 2018

As they analyzed those relationships, they discovered patterns, behaviors, and practices they could implement as policy. When they did, they discovered many such relationships already existed and people were anxious to talk about them. It changed the way they worked across the whole organization.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Local politicians and the corporate management team know there is a need to move on, invest in their primary resource—staff, improve policies, procedures and processes, innovate, celebrate, and learn, and create a culture of empowered people, who are dynamic and customer-focused. “We We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

For example, we have limits on the financial value of a gift, or a policy on what can or cannot be said in public about the firm’s strategic plans. Unfortunately, we don’t have simple rules of restraint to help us build capacity in an organization or a team. Rule #1: Focus Overrules Vision.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2021

You need to implement a wholesale strategic shift to reframe your company culture and policies from the “emergency mode” of working from home to remote work being the new normal. Conclusion. Work-from-home burnout and Zoom fatigue are much more complex than they appear.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

If you are in a position of power, you have the power to make changes in your organization’s policies and practices that will help other women. Help Other Women – We don’t need to wait for the next title or promotion to be able to help other women. Work harder to keep female talent in the workplace.

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JULY 24, 2018

Skills and knowledge development, good coaching and mentoring, and an internal policy on growing leaders will soon begin to put that right! Rather than being scarce, leaders are everywhere! Often, though, they are not leading as effectively as they might.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2017

That might mean, for example, from coordinating change activities, aligning necessary procedural or policy change, to initiating reskilling or other professional development actions. However, the change is always more significant than just one person, and as the leader, you need to achieve coherence for the whole picture.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2016

Displays Your organization may already have policies that either allow or disallow political displays (posters, banners, buttons or computer wallpaper) in the workplace. Lead from the front on the issue, and if your organization doesn’t have policies here, then help establish some.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Economic researchers point to evolving skill gaps, changes to immigration policies, and changing demographics as indicators that we are in for a sustained labor shortage. But an equally dangerous group is made up of those who stay but withdraw their engagement, motivation, and enthusiasm for the work. And all of this matters.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

I typically obey or comply with reasonable rules, laws, policies, and procedures. Well, I’m a lovely person and great to have as a friend. However, I will break the rules if I believe a higher principle is at stake. I tend to judge for myself what I think is right.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Being equitable means people receive what they deserve based on the circumstances, and being ethical means the leader’s behavior is aligned with the values of the organization and it’s policies and procedures. Check Your Leadership. I believe most leaders have positive intentions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Has an office policy changed? No matter what it is that you’re trying to communicate in writing, it’s important that you have a full command over the situation and understand how to present that information eloquently to the people who need it the most. Crafting the Perfect Memo. It there a training session coming up?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2018

It can also include things like the ability to drop to part-time hours (typically at part-time pay, of course) when needed, more vacation time, options for longer sabbaticals every few years, and other policies that give workers more freedom to live a life outside the 9-to-5 grind.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

I have an insurance policy. It is about “doing what you can do”. I loved it. And from the looks on faces, they loved it to. Be grateful. How can I forget this! I have a roof over my head. I have neighbors. I have a good place for Mom. I have loving caregivers. I have glorious family and friends. And yes, I can still sing.

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JUNE 16, 2020

The stakeholders brought up past cases of miscommunication of policy changes, citing that the same could also happen to the migration plan. Next, the participants gave reasons for the plan’s failure. When Ann read out the statements, the key theme that emerged was poor communication.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Given no substantive policy changes or various other sound explanations, the new strains of the virus are most probably to blame. The UK’s cases doubled within 2 weeks from 240 on December 10 to 506 on December 24; South Africa’s figures in a similar way saw about the same increase in that timeframe from 86 to 182.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

He or she can set the strategic direction, sign off on policies and plans, and encourage a professional and productive atmosphere, but significant change is implemented by managers and employees often far removed from the CEO’s corner office. The CEO is only one person.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2017

Involve more people in the policy- and decision-making process. So, how do leaders avoid the thinking trap that the extrovert-preferring boss fell victim to? Leaders can: Be mindful of always listening to their gut. Quick decisions and impressions can unconsciously be shaped by bias.

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JULY 12, 2019

Having a “Dogs At Work” policy will make your enterprise look good, as well as providing workers with a valued perk that will reinforce their loyalty towards the company.

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