Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

An organisation recruited me to help resolve an internal team issue arising from a budget-driven restructuring programme. They intended to remove management posts and re-shape staffing levels. As a result, I had to stabilise and lead the team, pending the recruitment of a new manager and some additional part-time support staff.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Recently, I interviewed three human resources professionals from organizations where we partner to deliver long-term leadership development. Meet your experts: Jessica Schwaller, Senior Director of Associate Performance and Development at Kforce. Abdicating Leadership. Your HR partners can’t replace your leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. There are several ways that leaders jeopardize and undercut their team’s development. Teach and coach – Development is an active job.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Leading through a layoff is one of the most unnerving challenges you can face as a manager. And, I had lost some of my best managers- – many of who had become close friends. We managed to sustain momentum, but it wasn’t easy. Leadership is often about restoring hope and doing what feels impossible.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. The LCP is built around the stage framework.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I currently mentor a close colleague, who has recently experienced probably the worst example of organisational restructuring and change management that I have witnessed in over forty years! Its mission is to help people and communities develop, grow and become sustainable. Oh, the irony! Focusing on the Long-term.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 28, 2014

As reported in the New York Times this week, the World Bank is in the midst of a two year restructuring effort. The basic goal of the change is to shift from the Bank’s decades-long regional structure to one that is organized around areas of functional expertise. Another goal is to reduce expenses.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Most people grapple with multiple disruptions, from hybrid teams to restructuring, digital transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Lack of trust in leadership. While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Fear of failure.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You can accelerate team commitment by focusing on critical leadership behaviors that answer key questions your team is asking. Or, you just went through a big restructure, and suddenly you’re leading a team of people who don’t know you or one another. Cultivate team commitment with answers to deep questions. Start with Shared Purpose.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2012

Is it ever OK to demote a manager back to their former position? Some companies or managers won’t even allow it, under any circumstances. Major league players are “sent back to the minors” for further development, and sent back up to the majors if and when they are ready. No one is being bumped to make room for the manager.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 29, 2019

A management consulting firm. David Nielson brings over three decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training. He is the owner of David Nielsen & Associates (DNA).

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

Today we are pleased to share a post from Lisa Kosak of Green Thumb Leadership. When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Trust me; our leadership was in name only. The stories that I could share!

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

David Nielson brings over four decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training. David has helped guide large-scale change initiatives and business strategy driven by ERP, mergers, restructuring, and the need for cultural change.

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

Managers spend a significant amount of time – around 6 hours per week – dealing with it. Studies show that over 95 percent of people who receive training on conflict resolution training report it helps them manage conflict in the workplace, and those with adequate training are more likely to seek win-win solutions. Employees spend 2.1

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. Those companies are much less likely to find the best and most comprehensive leadership qualities and candidates, because they are limiting their view of the world. My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2012

Esther Dyson reflects on one of those ways: restructuring institutional norms. The trick is to honor the past (or the present) while talking about the benefits of the new management. In Rippling , by Beverly Schwartz explores five strategic ways that social entrepreneurs change social systems. This can be hard to do.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Someone who wants to manage others can still get there. Managing others is not for everyone. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. The hierarchy worked – for some. Some rungs disappeared.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. This assumption is pervasive: A recent study revealed that 76 percent of managers believed their organizations didn’t have the capabilities needed to move into the future.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. The other solitude – managers and staff – rated how the leaders lived each core value at 1s and 2s.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He works for a large national, not for profit organization in the UK, and it is mired in yet another major restructuring process, driven, as ever, by dwindling funding. Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. The current process has been on-going for months.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic? People Analytics.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Brian felt that unreasonable customers, managers, and co-workers were speeding up his hamster wheel just to stay in place. Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 11, 2017

Our book, “ Work Without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success ”, describes the Challenge of Change Resilience Training™ program that Derek Roger developed from research on stress and resilience that he began over 30 years ago. Going back to our scenario, this time the manager discusses the proposal with you privately.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 23, 2020

Roundtable Mentor, Chad Crago, Senior Manager, Leadership Development at Walmart, shared his advice for keeping a team motivated and confident after a stressful restructuring. “Being aware and honest with yourself around your own reactions allows you to prepare, and to be intentional in your approach.”

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. Used effectively, they become a roadmap to dramatically higher leadership effectiveness. have failed. have failed. 3. One Size Fits All.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The importance and value of leadership training and coaching came out clearly in the survey results.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 31, 2020

This issue reflects the balanced leadership approach we need in these tough times, providing an open environment for straight talk and planning for the worst infused with hope, optimism, and positive possibilities. .” That feeds a vicious circle of pessimism and helplessness that reduces our action and makes the problem worse.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

This post recently appeared on Smartblog on Leadership : To start off the New Year, a lot of leaders will take their teams “off-site” for a day or more. An off-site meeting can be a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. Is it to develop a 3 year strategy?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 25, 2020

times as likely to progress into leadership roles after graduating than men who were in the wrong networks. times more likely to graduate to a leadership role after leaving school. times more likely to graduate to a leadership role after leaving school. The research reveals that men who were in the right networks were around 1.5

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

To deliver higher value to customers, business leaders implement complex strategies, restructure the organization periodically, lay out new initiatives, improve upon they existing processes, focus on sales, training, people etc. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Taking a leadership team off-site for a few days is a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. To develop a 3 year strategy? For example, the manager of the meeting leader is a key stakeholder. A restructuring? Develop the detailed agenda.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Some fair dismissal examples under this reason include: The organization is restructuring, so certain offices are no longer needed. This should be done after the proper performance management process has been taken. However, it might be considered unfair if an employer does not take the right measures in letting such employees go.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

And in the worst cases, dislike and rivalry can develop into a full-blown office war. Sometimes people in leadership think that constant tinkering with an organization’s structure is the way to fix any issues. Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Pouting and yelling.

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