Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

We’d expected that a new database was going to increase our efficiency. We could analyze every part of our current processes and look for opportunities to improve our efficiency. Our restructure was different: It took some time for the team to warm up to the idea. I was serving a team that was feeling a lot like that.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While AI applications can do a lot of things more efficiently than humans, like answering basic questions or guiding an employee through a self-directed training module, motivating and guiding people’s development isn’t one of them. Emotional intelligence will play a key role in helping any leader excel. Ingenuity.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2020

Be More Efficient. Maybe you are spending too much time answering emails in which case a simple day restructure will help you move more efficiently. You want to make sure that you and your employees are utilizing the work hours efficiently. Think really hard about how your business is running. Know When To Delegate.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Sincerely, Grace OPTION 2: LAYOFF DUE TO RESTRUCTING A sample layoff email to communicate a restructuring layoff with empathy and clarity. Layoff due to economic downturn.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

When people become tired and fatigued, they switch to a quicker, more efficient, and less energy-consuming form of decision-making. How will you restructure your leadership activities to leverage the power of decision-making fatigue? The challenge is that this is more fallible. The post Are You Suffering From Decision-Making Fatigue?

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

While AI applications can do a lot of things more efficiently than humans, like answering basic questions or guiding an employee through a self-directed training module, motivating and guiding people’s development isn’t one of them. Emotional intelligence will play a key role in helping any leader excel. Ingenuity.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence Core Competence Restructuring 156

HR Digest

APRIL 29, 2023

OD professionals are responsible for designing and implementing strategies to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Change managers help organizations navigate major transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions, or restructurings.

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Career Management Human Resources Restructuring 98

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

These standardized approaches help streamline processes, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance. Additionally, consultants bring proven methodologies and frameworks that have been tested across multiple industries and scenarios.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

Organizational Changes: Significant changes within an organization, such as restructuring, mergers, or layoffs, can trigger conflicts as employees grapple with uncertainty, fear, and changes in roles and responsibilities. Effective conflict resolution leads to increased productivity, efficiency, and overall success.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Absenteeism Construction 98

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

We acknowledge that we need to continually lead more efficiently on initiatives while mentoring new people to join us. Restructuring our organizational foundation has been a journey of sweat and examination. There have been bumps and some struggles, however, we have greater cohesiveness, and our culture has grown.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 1, 2022

This would improve productivity levels and create a more efficient working culture, which could ultimately lead to increased profits. In organizational change management, where restructuring or layoffs may be required, having an experienced HR team can help ease the transition and lessen its impact on employees.

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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. There are a few ways to use the agile HR structure to develop the process more efficiently. Let’s explore the concept in more detail. What is Agile HR?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 11, 2017

Even though it might not make you ill or miserable, there’s a significant efficiency cost involved until you wake up and take control of your attention. Your boss has lost it (and what she’s lost is control over her attention), but you know that she’s under enormous pressure dealing with a significant restructure.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). It is extremely important to have an efficient work-flow.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

Within the past three weeks with Coronavirus creating havoc around the globe, companies have switched to restructuring workplaces, with their emphasis on remote work. With the growing work from home situations, employers and organizations should be aware of the efficient practices of remote work, operational as well as legal.

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Rapid BI

MARCH 25, 2015

You have restructured to be as cost efficient as possible. You have implemented LEAN or other process based efficiency analysis strategies. […]. Cost effective customer service training Customer service training provision is often preceded by a lot of change in organizations. It’s a common situation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

After years of hearing that it was impossible to restructure jobs to make them more doable, guess what? According to The Wall Street Journal , when Goldman Sachs discovered it couldn’t attract and retain the most promising recruits with pay and perks alone, it woke up to the idea that you can actually restructure the way work is done.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations seek to adapt to changing times, senior executives realize they can’t rely on change through simple restructuring and re-engineering. Instead, they need strong corporate cultures that support efficiency, innovation, and agility to navigate the turbulent business landscape.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

But dysfunction–in any form and any degree–comes at a cost, keeping us from effective outcomes, efficient results and successful conclusions. Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Often the ones that are the healthiest think they’re the worst, and vice versa.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. It’s one of the biggest inevitables we come across in our short time on this earth – and something we must be willing to embrace and adapt to if we want to make the most of every moment.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Improving Efficiency/Productivity. Organizational Restructuring/Building. In their case, the biggest internal changes they identified were: Leadership/Culture Development. Sales Training/New Business Development. New Technology. Succession Planning/Generational Change. Customer Service. Adapting to Market Changes.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. The world of business is in constant transformation mode, so an adaptable company culture isn’t just nice to have, it’s necessary.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. This could mean exploring new markets, investing in technology to improve efficiency, or upskilling your staff to handle a broader range of tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. In addition to saving energy – and, as a result, costs – smart buildings improve the indoor experience for occupants.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Capabilities-driven strategy creates value through four levers: effectiveness, focused investment, efficiency, and alignment. Third, there is the simple efficiency argument. They deserve at least equal weight in strategy setting. SD : How does capabilities-driven strategy create value?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Perhaps one — in which she suggests restructuring job responsibilities to make sure they don't require more technical qualifications than they really need — might bear some thought today.). Kept in 'women-type' jobs, they have not efficiently used their aptitudes, intelligence, education, and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Right away, the senior management team converts its PowerPoint decks into a road show that explains the strategy, develops a comprehensive implementation plan, sets up a program management office, establishes steering committees, assigns roles, and even starts restructuring. But after six months the plan starts to falter.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. The years of the Great Recession saw many big mergers aimed at restructuring assets and cutting costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

For example, in one organization undergoing a major restructuring, each division designated a “transformation leader” as its point person for the work. That’s why thinking outside the roster of “usual suspects” can help you distribute responsibilities in a more even, efficient way. Delegation Leading teams Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. We’re going to restructure and move people around,’” Sid recalls. What steps should you take to protect your job?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

It can also help you stay grounded when you have grand ambitions, like an organizational restructuring. And it can make even your weekly meetings more efficient and productive, by keeping people focused on the right priorities. For example, it’s a useful way to simplify complicated situations, like sensitive personnel issues.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. Again, acknowledging reality might force hard, but timely, decisions on restructuring employee benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. That is one reason why conglomerates are still popular in emerging economies , but have declined in countries with more efficient capital markets.

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