Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This year, the theme was “Skills for Life”. Towards Flexibility and Productivity ; ran a panel event, Shaping the Future of Apprenticeships ; and hosted a skills roundtable in Huddersfield, where West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin acknowledged the value of apprenticeships for career development. That work continues. Play clip ].

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Groupthink: The Consensus Conundrum The Trap: The desire for group harmony can lead to unchallenged decision-making and potentially flawed outcomes. Assess Competencies Separately: Evaluate individual skills and traits on their own merits, rather than being influenced by a general positive impression.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. But what is groupthink? Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink? Understanding what groupthink is and taking measures to avoid it is essential in any workplace.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

These are questions that require you to challenge groupthink, conventional wisdom, and your own biases. For example, you can make more money but will have less free time; you can fix the bottom line but will have to lay off workers; you can liberate a country but will cause damage and death. What do you hear?

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You’ve probably heard the advice: “Don’t hire for skills, hire for culture fit.”. The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. But the reverse isn’t always true. No matter how much training you give them, you can’t really change someone’s personality.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

While experimental innovation can require years or decades to accumulate the requisite knowledge and skill.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. We are probably more like the experimental innovators that move through idea after idea, learning and evolving as they go.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You’ve probably heard the advice: “Don’t hire for skills, hire for culture fit.”. The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. But the reverse isn’t always true. No matter how much training you give them, you can’t really change someone’s personality.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

The report highlights that while welcome progress has been made on the ethnic and gender diversity of organizations, and especially in leadership roles, they can still succumb to groupthink when people share excessively similar backgrounds and perspectives. ” The best decisions. . Struggling to diversify.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. Campbell held a very special place in his heart for the people who have the guts and skills to start companies. There isn’t a head at the Round Table , but there is a throne behind it. Lead Based on First Principles. Build Relationships Whenever You Can.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

The trick for managers is to cultivate belongingness and uniqueness simultaneously, focusing on diverse talents and experiences without stereotyping or alienating employees, or making them reluctant to share ideas that set them apart and lead to groupthink. . Inclusive leaders are humble. Related articles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2022

A research-backed guide to challenging groupthink.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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Kate Nasser

JULY 13, 2019

by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. If you dismiss arrogant leaders' arrogance because they produce results, you will be blind to serious problems they create. The post What Arrogant Leaders Really Do to Organizations | #Leadership #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Overconfidence Effect This cognitive bias leads leaders to overestimate their knowledge, skills, or abilities, often resulting in rash decisions without adequate planning. Groupthink In an environment where conformity is valued over critical thinking, leaders may disregard their own views or skepticism to avoid conflict.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. The CMI Apprenticeship has been fundamental in equipping Will with the skills and experience to take the next step in his career.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

This doesn’t mean groupthink. Inclusive leadership also requires an emotional skill-set: the ability to recognize emotion, to understand what’s being felt and why, and to use emotion effectively. Proactively address those problems and be receptive to feedback from every employee. Create a shared identity. Be attentive to emotions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

.” Many leaders choose team members purely on the basis of functional skill — treating them, essentially, as fungible assets or the individual components of a machine. Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

That means learning two key skills: To do something the crowd isn’t doing, you must think something the crowd isn’t thinking. Learn about and watch out for confirmation bias , overconfidence , survivor bias , and groupthink. But the strategies that performed the very best were also loners. What could go wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Subsidize Your Skill Development. My day job not only afforded me the capital to make albums, but it taught me the skills to succeed as a producer. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. Instead, a more revealing query would be, “Why do you have multiple careers?” Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

In business, this is a sure recipe for groupthink. Recognizable when you look around a room and see yourself, your beliefs, your opinions, your experience, your culture, and your skills all mirrored perfectly back at you. A colleague of mine, Rob Mathias who runs our D.C. There is no hurdler without a hurdle. The box of strong ties.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not only can it change the way employees view and value cybersecurity, which leads to better security across the entire organization, but it can also help your workforce become more curious and resourceful — two of the most valuable skills in a future with widespread artificial intelligence and automation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The more diverse your team, the more likely you’ll have the toolkits necessary to solve the challenges outside your experience — and the less prone you’ll be to the perils of groupthink. Some protégés bolster your brand through their technical expertise or social media savvy, valuable skills in today’s ever more connected world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. For example, Amazon encourages disagreements to avoid groupthink and leverage the benefits of cognitive diversity. But human curiosity and critical thinking are needed to identify the main problems that AI and data can help to solve, and this process starts with you. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

You can get trapped in a version of groupthink, with a single set of shared relationships. Either way, you can end up without the bandwidth to seek out your own projects or skill development. It can also happen if your colleagues try to use you as a conduit to get their requests or concerns to the boss.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While there are no right or wrong types, having too many people with similar personalities tends to lead to problems and groupthink. When a longtime employee wanted to take on a role we didn’t have at the time, we helped him transition to a different company that we knew could use his skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Inventive thinking in a team setting is fueled by a blend of talents, skills, and traits that rarely all exist in a single person—such as an ability to see problems through fresh eyes, a knack for understanding a frustrated customer’s complaints, or a flair for turning a creative idea into a profitable innova­tion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day. Knowing when to speak is an art, and like any art, requires skill. But it's a skill worth pursuing. When great debacles get dissected, very often the underlying tension of why the issue went wrong was that no one spoke up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I want them to be known for their skills. Nothing bad will happen, but some good things will happen: the individuals I interviewed all mentioned reduced groupthink, better listening, and more enjoyable interactions as a result of having more women on the board. Our members weren’t appointed because of their gender.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

It’s teamwork that keeps people with a diverse set of skills, knowledge, information, and perspectives working together effectively and efficiently to achieve their common goal. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Common Purpose. Diverse Group. Diversity is the power behind collaboration.

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