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3 keys to improve your employee engagement, featured at CIO online

ReImagine Work

What project or assignment was the favorite they’ve ever had? A version of this post ran originally at CIO online, August 19, 2016. It can be a different cadence for every employee. Your interest in your employees should go beyond status reports. Get to know what makes them tick at work. Ask what they like best about the job.

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How to Respond To Employee’s Wacky Ideas (Tool & Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

” Or, “I can tell you really care about this project, thank you for thinking about how to make it better.” You may also enjoy this feature (and interview with Karin Hurt) in CIO Magazine, 5 Myths of IT Culture Change (on pages 23-27). Start with gratitude and thanking them for their contribution. ” Or, simply.

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Welcome to Strategic Planning 2.0

N2Growth Blog

It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. project and program plans as they evolve over time. Data Analytics Project. Corporate Re-Branding Project. CIO Search/Selection Project.

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How To Break Through Barriers And Up Your Success

Eric Jacobson

She’s also a corporate board member who has held CIO and other leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. Think and behave like an active project manager of your career--calling your own plays an not watching your career from the sidelines.

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Seven Critical Needs for Sustained and Successful Organizational Change

Great Results Team Building

According to Gartner , 46% of CIOs feel that culture is the most significant barrier to the success of their change plans… and it is the gap in understanding between C-suite and entry-level employees that contributes to lack of their commitment to changed behaviors. 6 Need clarity of a metric to measure the progress and results.

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Change Reboot: How to Recover When Your Project Gets Off to a False Start

Change Starts Here

Working behind the scenes through coaching, we designed the concept of a Business Process Improvement (BPI) initiative to reboot the system implementation project. In a note to department chairs and managers, the project sponsor acknowledged that the change so far had “undoubtedly caused stress, confusion and frustration.”

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Are You A Bonus Delivery Officer?

Rich Gee Group

Or a CMO, COO, CIO, CTO or any other C-Level title. Your primary role in your position is not to deliver on projects, motivate the team, present information, or hob-nob with the hoi-poloi. You’re not a CEO. You’re not a GVP, AVP, MVP or VP. You’re not a Senior Director, Partner, Manager, Owner, etc.

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