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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

Also, leaders must ensure that all staff proactively commit to their performance and values goals. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. When employees believe their bosses have behavioral integrity, their commitment goes up. ? Their research methods and analysis discovered: ?

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6 Ways to Build Trust During Organizational Change

Lead Change Blog

Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. Ken Blanchard is fond of saying, “People without information cannot act responsibly. Once employees lose trust, it’s hard to regain it, which handicaps future change efforts. Address people’s concerns.

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Values in Dynamic Tension

Great Leadership By Dan

Behaviors: Formalize my commitments with clear agreements. Keep my commitments. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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How Clear Is Your Vision for 2019?

Lead Change Blog

That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. This maintained and, in many cases, enhanced their commitment to the organisation. Squeaky wheels’ did not win the day!

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RIP: Retired in Position

Lead Change Blog

“Retired in position” refers to an unengaged employee, a term which I first heard used by Ken Blanchard. employees are not showing up to work fully committed to delivering their best performance. These individuals are just going through the motions, showing up to do the minimum, and would rather be somewhere else. Well, it should.

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work

Lead Change Blog

Traditional carrot-and-stick techniques may result in temporary gains, but once the bribe or the threat is gone, people’s commitment flags. His eight books, two coauthored with Ken Blanchard, have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. However, Mark’s influence has not been limited to chicken.