HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I wanted to work with a mature diversity, equity, and inclusion management practice and bring it to the next level. Jon Muñoz: Most recently, we completed an independent assessment of our DEI management practices. It’s also important to create development programs to support different workforce segments.

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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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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 16, 2023

This discourse ventures into the heart of adept change management, spotlighting four pivotal realms that form the cornerstone of any triumphant metamorphosis. This metamorphosis often necessitates tailored training and development initiatives, equipping team members with the requisite skills and insights for the new order.

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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. If you’ve moved on to the rebuilding stage, here are a few tips that can help.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Raising productivity Researchers conducted a study involving 453 college-educated professionals, including marketers, grant writers, consultants, data analysts, human resource professionals, and managers, to assess the impact of generative AI on worker productivity.

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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. A leadership development plan also acts as a compass for navigating change.

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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

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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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. Perhaps you make mistakes that sabotage your opportunity to transform results.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Employers and policymakers are increasingly recognizing the importance of alternative routes to skill development and are exploring ways to better integrate and recognize these pathways in education and workforce development systems. However, as employers have come to prioritize degrees over skills, STARs have been displaced from 7.4

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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. General Leadership Leadership Lessons Organizational Development change management leadership leadership presence World Bank' Another goal is to reduce expenses.

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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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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

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. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The study included a survey of 682 managers, wherein they were asked about the prevalence, nature, and perceived impact of chance events, as well as how their individual characteristics related to these events and career outcomes. The post How Chance Influences Our Career first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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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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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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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2023

A Strategic Approach to Conflict Management To truly address office drama and create drama-free workplaces , HR professionals need to embrace a strategic approach to conflict management. However, this reactive approach only adds fuel to the fire, further entangling HR in the drama and exacerbating the tensions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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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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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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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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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

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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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. Practice Celebration and Accountability. Does any of this sound familiar? Your business quadrupled in the past year and new people are everywhere.

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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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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

From ensuring DEI initiatives in the workplace to helping the rest of the workforce with change management to keep up with the changing times, the presence of a Human Resources team is essential for the entire organization to thrive. Job cuts and reorganization aren’t the only aspects of the need for change management either.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

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. Our bank management training group dwindled down as we became “leaders” and landed new roles. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors. Wish us luck!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

When a business has too much liquidity risk, it might not be able to cover its short-term bills or liabilities and will need to restructure, sell assets, file for bankruptcy, or go out of business. These taxes serve various purposes, from providing revenue to aiding the development of the economy.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

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. Managers and supervisors are held accountable and rewarded for their contributions to the efforts.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The method developed by the team takes any nonpolite corporate communications, such as a directive from a manager, and restructures them so they’re more well-mannered. New research from Carnegie Mellon highlights how such automated methods could also help to make our communication more polite.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Fortify Development. Although most small towns want to remain small, which is the bulk of their charm, as time goes on there needs to be some kind of development. It’s in small towns’ best interests to develop a plan where new industries can set up shop. Strengthen the Police Force. Make the Town Walkable.

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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 Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Originally designed for software development, Agile has gained traction in various business functions, including HR, due to its adaptive and iterative approach to work.

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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. Each stage develops out of the previous stage and into the next.

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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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