Lead Change Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

She looked inside all your kitchen cupboards and drawers and couldn’t believe how neat and organized they were. She was amazed by how all the flatware was organized. All we are is organized. Mindy wasn’t the first person to say something about the organization in our home, but she was the first to call me OCD. We were imprinted with the benefits of orderliness early on and understand there’s no secret sauce to being organized. “You never told me you’re OCD.”. “I

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. In other words, you have impact on the organization. When organizations send clients to me for executive coaching, the work usually focuses on one of two things: How the leader thinks about their job, and how they do that job.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a previous blog , I wrote about why you should transform your organization into a network organization and promised to write about how to lead that transformation. To recap, a network organization is all about communities based on connectors and content. Connectors come from all layers of your hierarchy, know who’s who, know many people, have contacts throughout the organization, and get things done by connecting people to each other.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

In The Fearless Organization , Amy Edmondson explains what psychological safety is and what it isn’t and how we can create in our organizations. And it is this fear we have of looking bad or retribution that organizations must reduce or eliminate if we are to help people to bring their best to work. Without it, people will withhold thoughts, ideas, and contributions that are vital to your growth, renewal, and the overall health of your organization.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 8, 2021

Has your organization stopped growing? You may look around and wonder why the organization isn’t growing. Are they at a standstill for growth? You may lead a church, a small manufacturing company, or a large business. There will be times when growth doesn’t happen.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

The post What is drama costing your organization? Listen in as Next Element Co-Founder and CEO, Nate Regier discusses how drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Are you a High-Creative leader, capable of rapidly growing your organization while simultaneously transforming it into a more agile, innovative, adaptive, and engaging workplace? Proliferate high-achievers throughout your organization’s leadership system.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 25, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton How transformational is the power of trust in organizations? It improves work satisfaction and quality of life: Context Ethical Organization building trust ethical leadership development high trust culture positive leadershipIt increases capacity and improves performance.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 15, 2021

The post Is Your Organization Ready for Hybrid Work? At the start of the pandemic, chances are your work life changed. If your role remained, you likely moved from working in the office to working from home. That was a big change for many people to adapt to working apart from each other.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And because they’re interesting candidates, they’re the ones who’re easily snapped up by other organizations, leaving you with the leftovers. And this while your formidable organization is innovative, offers excellent salaries and the best perks! Seems like you’re suffering from a neglected organization. So, you and the entire leadership of your neglected organization decide it’s time for change. Yet, even if they stay, does that make your organization excellent?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2015

Recently, some great books have been published about “new organizations” for the 21-st century, such as “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux and “My Steam Engine is Broken” by Mark Powell and Jonathan Gifford. I’ll discuss them in a later blog post, but the point is: reinventing organizations takes time and some people may be discouraged when they think of applying this to their workplace. It is not easy to be kind in our organization.”

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Every day it seems to get harder and harder to find a topic or subject that hasn’t turned into a divisive issue, separating people into the proverbial us vs. them camps. Whether it’s on the news or even in our various social media channels, there seems to be more emphasis. Click to continue reading.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 21, 2013

The Leading in Context Manifesto addresses the importance of respect and care, and helping each individual become their best: Ethical Leader Ethical Organization By Linda Fisher Thornton What is it that ethical leaders do that has such a powerful positive effect on people? What can be the long-term impact of inspiring groups of people to greatness and ethical behavior?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2015

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I was in charge of an unfamiliar organization, one in whose mission I was not well versed. However, a true leader can be successful in any organization. Whether the leader grew-up in the organization or was transplanted into a new ecosystem, they can utilize sound leadership principles to guide the organization to success. The difference is the time it takes to build a framework upon which to hang those leadership principles in an unfamiliar organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

Do you know what everyone in your organization does? Just as I turned that picture over to see it more clearly, I recommend you flip your organization chart to see it for what it really is. You’ll rediscover what the organization was designed to do and test the necessity of the ancillary functions. It reminds you that most of the organization was designed to support critical functions that existed long before anyone said, “I think we need a CEO.” By Brian Layer.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

N INCOMPOOPERY is the crazy stuff we do (or don’t do) that drives our customers crazy and makes life difficult for employees and keeps organizations from getting what they want. But when an organization is driving people crazy, it’s a nincompoopery problem. Usually, the organization knows what’s wrong; it’s just that nobody has the courage to overcome the tradition, the inertia, or the apathy to fix it.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Big organizations are prone to communications breakdowns not only due to having a large number of people or departments, different locations, and poor management but also because of diverse personality traits.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

There are a ton of benefits to establishing a culture of mentoring within your organization. This post will share those benefits with you and explain how to cultivate the mentoring culture within your organization. Within any organization you have your mentors (the ones who give information) and the mentees (the recipients of information). In a culture with mentorship, information flows freely throughout the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Organizations come to be managed as a result of a long series of small and large decisions, decisions appropriate to the needs and the challenges at the time. Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development [link] It’s critical to recognize that “You get what you got until you decided to create what you want.” But over the years, the accumulation of these decisions [.]. Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development decision making employee engagement

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

The post 8 Most Frequent Change Needs of Any Organization appeared first on Lead Change. For the past sixteen years, I have worked as a transformational business coach across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. In that time, I have frequently experienced the eight change needs described below. I hope that, reflecting on my list, you might identify one or more needs for you, your team, or your organisation and respond accordingly.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, let me give Pastor Rick South […] The post Rebuilding Your Organization Looks Like Destruction (But It Isn’t) appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. Leadership Abundant Life church church Organizations rebuilding Rick SouthI sat in a church service recently where my former youth pastor was honored for 30 years in ministry. That’s a long time to serve in ministry. Statistics show 50% of pastors will quit ministry within the first 5 years.

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General Leadership

JANUARY 16, 2015

Quote from “Top Gun” Every organization has a leader whose job it is to produce results: combat aviators, increased sales, on time deliveries, or increased profits. Study after ponderous management study confirms what common sense already tells us: while the CEO sets broad strategic guidelines it is the lower ranking subordinates who do much of the real work of an organization.… Curator Posts art culture Leadership lessons organization Top Gun

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In many organizations, it can take up to 10 years before new leaders get leadership development training, leaving most to figure things out on their own.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 20, 2021

And, to often, these individuals do not understand the organization’s top priorities. These discoveries encouraged Berman and Bradt to write their new book, Influence and Impact , which provides an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 7, 2017

Losing an employee can land a damaging blow to you and your organization. Most employees will live an organization at some point. Employees are beginning to learn they’re more in control of their future than the organization. But that doesn’t mean your organization needs to be a revolving door. To stop the bleeding of people leaving your organization, let’s look at the reasons people leave. Why Employees Leave Your Organization.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 28, 2017

All of … Continue reading → Knowledge Leadership Learning Uncategorized application culture discovery improvement JTBD learners learning organizationAmazon, Intuit, Airbnb, Disney, FedEx and Uber…what do these companies have in common? They know their customers. They don’t just know about their customers, they know why their customers ‘hire’ them and their products to do specific jobs.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The authors have sought to highlight those lessons that leaders of other organizations can learn from these institutions to put into practice themselves. POWERHOUSE provides a four-pillar approach to developing high performance: Plan Establishing and maintaining a vision/mission for the organization. Priorities Establishing short-term, organization-wide focus and milestones for achieving progress. People Defining a behavioral code for the organization.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. Therefore, leaders must grow as the organization grows. . In those seasons, I am personally challenged as much as the organization.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I N OUR WORK training and consulting organizations across the globe, we have found misalignment to be at the heart of most organizational dysfunction. People assume the organization’s goals are clear to everyone and that employees’ roles and priorities are aligned to support those goals. Here are 5 steps to create this alignment in an organization: 1. Too often, people in organizations primarily identify around their separate, individual roles.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 13, 2012

Are there characteristics that cut across all great organizations? Our research* into organizations that sustained high levels of productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction over time, revealed six common traits. In high performance organizations, affirming the purpose and values and reviewing the vision is an ongoing process. In many ordinary organizations, the systems and structures often derail people. High performance organizations account for both.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Why does an organization exist? It means providing high quality products and services at a reasonable cost (to the organization, the employee, the environment, and society). As an organization, you want everyone to perform and produce optimally. The sustainable qualities a team member brings to the table in a 21 st century organization boil down to: Analytic qualities. The ability to organize.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

How To Destroy Your Organization. Bad leaders destroy organizations. Bring poor leadership into your organization, you’re going to have issues. The organization has ineffective leaders steering the ship. See how it can apply to your organization. But taking care of yourself first can be detrimental to your team, and your organization. How did they damage your organization?

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Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The “prison experiments” by psychologist Philip Zimbardo show “that ethical problems in organizations originate not with “a few bad apples” but with the ‘barrel makers’—the leaders who, wittingly or not, create and maintain the systems in which participants are encouraged to do wrong.” The post Ethical Problems in Organizations appeared first on Tony Mayo. Tony Mayo Executive Coach.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

E very leader wants to see their organizations become successful. We weren’t… So, how can complacency damage your organization? Let’s check it out: How Complacency Damages Organizations. Question: What are you doing to break complancency in your organization? The post 4 Ways Complacency Will Damage Your Organization appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. There’s a problem that comes along with success: Complacency.

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