HR Needs to Make Big Changes to Boost Effectiveness
Innovation and agility are critical to thriving — or even surviving — in today’s fast-changing world. Balancing speed and quality is now a vital leadership skill. First used in software development,...
View ArticleHelp Us Distill Today’s Vital Leadership/Organization Development Topics
Which leadership/organization development topics are most critical to you today? How can you cut through all the clutter to quickly find and apply practical applications to boost effectiveness? Can we...
View ArticleWhat Are Today’s Most Vital Leadership and Culture Development Topics?
Early in his career, Thomas Edison invented a vote recording machine for use in legislative chambers. Politicians could vote yea or nay from their desks. This would replace the time consuming process...
View ArticleReadersourcing: The Highest Voted Development Topics
Workplace stress is rising while employee engagement and performance is sinking. A major cause is mediocre managers and bad bosses. The poorest leaders are often the ones who need leadership...
View ArticlePosition versus Persuasion Power
Joel’s a high IQ manager with strong analytical skills coming from a deep technical background. He hates meetings (“they get in the way of real work”) and resents having to sell changes or get people...
View ArticleHardiness and Resilience: When Giving In Can Give Us a Lift
When you experience failure, loss, or a serious setback do you see it as temporary or permanent? Is failure an event or who you are? Is it a learning or crushing experience? Does it traumatize you or...
View ArticleWebinar: What to Do About the Performance Review?
What’s your experience with performance reviews? How energizing and helpful are they — to give or receive? Do you look forward to performance discussions with excitement or dread? Do performance...
View ArticleAre You Doing it…To…For…or…With…Your Team?
Many studies have shown the impact that control of our situation has on our health, happiness, and effectiveness. In one experiment a white-footed deer mouse was placed in a brightly lit cage. The...
View ArticleIn Your Dreams: See It to Be It
A senior leader was determined to strengthen her organization’s culture. She recognized that getting her executive team to work together more effectively was a key first step. In preparation for an...
View ArticleIs Your Team Coughing Up a Culture Hairball?
Recently, I reposted an article on cultural assumptions often being wrong because leaders don’t understand how their current culture is perceived. A reader posted a comment asking if it’s realistic to...
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