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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

An organization’s systems are the outcroppings of the organization’s bedrock values and culture. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness. Who Are Your Systems Serving?

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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process. Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. How does responsive design make products more valuable to their customers?

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Should L&D Teams Provide Training on Well-Being?

Experience to Lead

This makes sense, as employee wellness has a direct correlation to productivity, profitability and talent retention. Consider technology, for example: many employees struggle to disconnect from the office because they get constant notifications from coworkers on their phones.

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Strategies to Create a Positive Working Environment

HR Digest

Foster a Comfortable and Supportive Work Environment Creating a physical and virtual work environment that promotes comfort, focus, and well-being is essential for employee satisfaction and productivity. Establishing guidelines for respectful and constructive communication to ensure that discussions remain productive and inclusive.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Running the business. About the Author.

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Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

Harvard Business Review

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). One organization might identify teamwork behavior as “collaborates effectively through helping others.”