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From Clashes to Collaboration – 7 Steps to a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger

Great Results Team Building

Conduct focus groups where employees from both sides can share their concerns and aspirations. A targeted culture-change plan defines desired behaviors, implements training, and establishes feedback mechanisms. Develops collaborative behaviors through facilitated exercises and challenges, fostering trust and open communication.

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9 Must Haves for Business Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Hire for attitude and train for skill. Know your culture, have clearly written job descriptions, and train your managers to interview so they can find people who will be successful in their jobs and in your organization. Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day.

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Leadership Team Dynamics: Culture Change Begins Here

The Practical Leader

We did a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys within a division of a large company to help Chris, the division manager, determine why their culture wasn’t performing at the level he wanted. Each manager opened the folder and looked into a large mirror inside. Change begins here.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. .”

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This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization

The Practical Leader

” They identify five ways leaders can provide stronger change leadership: Don’t just set up training programs — create a learning culture. Leading change was a key focus that emerged from reader feedback on the main topics over 600 readers said they’d like to see in my latest book project.

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Your Process SUCKS! I am NOT a jerk & tell me the behaviors you want.

Mike Cardus

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Make decisions & Solve Problems Within a Time Span…TeamBuilding & Leadership Process Category: Buffalo NY , Management , creativity , innovation , manager training Comments 14 Responses Nina Tuesday, 2nd.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

After reading his book Culture Spark , I reached out to talk about his work and his research. “If You share six myths about culture in your book. Approachability means not only having an open-door policy, but also demonstrating that it is more than lip service. Be open and honest. Jason Richmond. 6 Culture Myths.

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