Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our Universal Model of Leadership helps explain how extraordinary leadership develops and how to accelerate its development. Our Universal Model includes five stages of progressive leadership development: Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive. The LCP is built around the stage framework.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2023

Employee turnover is a common issue in most organizations. It refers to the rate at which employees leave an organization, either voluntarily or involuntarily, and must be replaced. While a certain level of turnover is inevitable, high turnover rates can be detrimental to an organization’s performance, productivity, and profitability.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Introducing 5T Leadership. Ron (and his strategic partners) coach and consult churches, organizations and leaders in 5 critical areas of leadership. The way you begin and end a leadership position often determines the degree of success you will have in the position. Healthy teams build healthy organizations.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 28, 2014

As reported in the New York Times this week, the World Bank is in the midst of a two year restructuring effort. The basic goal of the change is to shift from the Bank’s decades-long regional structure to one that is organized around areas of functional expertise. Another goal is to reduce expenses.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 5, 2014

The life of a modern leader brings challenges of leading, innovating, motivating, growing, developing, evaluating, communicating, and risking. The end of your comfort zone is where your leadership begins. But effective leaders know that leading from their comfort zone means they’re not learning, growing, developing, or getting results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you’re still neck deep in downsizing, read my article, 5 Mistakes to Avoid During a Restructure, to avoid these sadly all-too-frequent mistakes. Help them develop and expand their competencies to make them invaluable as the company evolves. But I also know that in every organization, there is always redundant work going on.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. They move decisions as far down the organization as they possibly can and thus cultivate widespread engagement and accountability. People get promoted for having good answers.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. They move decisions as far down the organization as they possibly can and thus cultivate widespread engagement and accountability. People get promoted for having good answers.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Practice exercising your leadership skills within challenging situations in order to hone your ability to guide your team through the rough waters of change. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

Conflict in the workplace arises when individuals within a team or organization have differing opinions, interests, or approaches to a given situation. Leadership Approach Conflict: Divergent leadership styles within an organization can create tension and conflict.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Lack of trust in leadership. Due to neuroscience research, we understand that change often triggers a threat response in the brain. Change means uncertainty, which is an uncomfortable state for many. Job insecurity. Job insecurity.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. What are the chances that the typical current CEO, most likely a baby boomer, is well positioned to identify all the characteristics of the organizations’ future leaders? My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Just as the body’s immune system keeps it healthy, stable and tolerant of change, an organization’s immune system must be strong in order to handle the task of innovating. But in a rapidly changing world, many of the defense mechanisms organizations utilize are no longer appropriate -- and can even put organizations’ innovation at risk.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Most people grapple with multiple disruptions, from hybrid teams to restructuring, digital transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. Their functional experience provides little guidance, especially when objectives and stakeholders span across their organization. Managing Uncertainty. This will uncover things that you don’t know.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

Today we are pleased to share a post from Lisa Kosak of Green Thumb Leadership. Trust me; our leadership was in name only. Sadly, we lacked development and had not been mentored enough to be managers. Mark’s parable about a leadership journey was very relevant. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He works for a large national, not for profit organization in the UK, and it is mired in yet another major restructuring process, driven, as ever, by dwindling funding. So, how can your organization overcome this killer issue? The current process has been on-going for months. Why so much change with so little apparent effect?

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Whether it’s adapting to new technologies, shifting customer demands, or regulatory updates, organizations must continually evolve to stay ahead. As the gatekeepers of a company’s most valuable asset – its people – HR teams have a pivotal responsibility in steering their organizations through periods of change.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Organizations began to weigh breadth of experience against depth of expertise during talent reviews. Flattened organizations and limited career ladders don’t spell the end of growth OR careers.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2015

We could make a case for changes to be made to the new database and provide detailed notes to help developers. So we called one of our vendors and asked if we could come for a tour of their organization, deeply believing that answers existed. Our restructure was different: It took some time for the team to warm up to the idea.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. It is crucial to remember that layoff email should be tailored to your organization’s culture and style. Layoff due to restructuring. This is where a well-crafted layoff notice letter comes in handy.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute, Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. Assessment and feedback from the leadership team and managers and staff showed vast differences. Like most organizations today, the firm has a snappy, well-written statement of mission, vision, and values on their website.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

Accountability is a mess in many organizations. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

How do organizations use personal data accumulated by machines and make predictions of different types of intelligence? A little less than half of HR functions being applied across the world in organizations are using AI-based applications. What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies?

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CO2

JANUARY 8, 2024

This post will help you learn how leading with questions leads to great leadership that will change your business results. It begins with a fundamental leadership principle: Are you asking enough questions? This approach fosters engagement and accountability throughout the organization.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. If you have people throughout the organization with an ownership mentality, the odds of success go up dramatically.

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

Notably, 70 percent of employees believe managing conflict is a critically important leadership skill. Ignoring conflicts can have far-reaching implications for an organization’s productivity, morale, and overall success. Employees spend 2.1 hours per week in conflict, amounting to 385 million working hours.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. Used effectively, they become a roadmap to dramatically higher leadership effectiveness. have failed. How do we know we have the right competencies?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2012

Major league players are “sent back to the minors” for further development, and sent back up to the majors if and when they are ready. I’ve seen cases when moving a manager one level down in the organization has turned out to be a win-win for the manager and the organization. It happens all the time in baseball.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Leaders who want to make their team more effective often ask me for help with teambuilding, training in team skills or advice on restructuring. Teams are organized around real work, not who the individuals report to. In today’s complex organizations, you may find that you have several distinct teams reporting you.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Redundancy is usually due to no fault of the employee; rather, it concerns the organization. Some fair dismissal examples under this reason include: The organization is restructuring, so certain offices are no longer needed. The organization is shutting down. If the organization needs to move to a different location.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

At its worst, it can bring down an entire organization. And in the worst cases, dislike and rivalry can develop into a full-blown office war. Sometimes people in leadership think that constant tinkering with an organization’s structure is the way to fix any issues. The first step is recognizing the problem.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring. Clean up and organize your e-mail in-box, computer files, and your office to minimize distractions and time wasted looking for data or materials.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

Companies are working ways out to deliver more value, people in organizations are evaluated based on value they create and clients seek “value-adds” in products and services they purchase. Eliminating Waste” is the key to a lean and productive organization. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Tuning hierarchy and structure of the organization for better outcomes is just one part. I have said this before – any organization that aims to deliver high performance consistently cannot ignore the power of process. How would work flow?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

But too often we overlook the profound impact these changes have on our organizations. The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals.

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