HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I wanted to work with a mature diversity, equity, and inclusion management practice and bring it to the next level. Jon Muñoz: Most recently, we completed an independent assessment of our DEI management practices. It’s also important to create development programs to support different workforce segments.

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HR Digest

APRIL 29, 2023

Human resources (HR) management has long been a popular career choice for individuals seeking a challenging and fulfilling job that involves helping organizations optimize their workforce. Careers for HR managers have also been more prevalent in recent times. Are there any second careers for HR professionals? These include: 1.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

However, the key lies not in avoiding conflict altogether, but in effectively managing and resolving it. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the intricacies of conflict management, exploring practical strategies and techniques for handling conflict at work.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever. Understanding these vulnerabilities is the first step towards effective crisis management. Proactive Debt Management A crisis often necessitates taking on additional debt.

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Decker Communication

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Videotaping is ubiquitous in the development of world-class athletes. Better communication has a virtuous impact on everything that leaders and managers touch, not just events. Rarely are leadership communications as closely scrutinized as during restructuring announcements and the reorganizations that follow. Absurd, right?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. There are several ways that leaders jeopardize and undercut their team’s development. Teach and coach – Development is an active job.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Understanding the importance of change is the first step to understanding HR’s role in change management. Image: Freepik HR’s Role in Change Management: What Is Change Management? Change management begins and ends with HR. Change is undoubtedly the only constant in the modern business landscape.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

23andMe is in pursuit of a strategic shift away from its research business wing and the development of new therapies, and will instead focus its attention on genetic testing and selling its existing products. Genetic testing company 23andMe has announced layoffs at its organization, with plans to bring down its workforce by 40%.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Most change-management ventures fail. But it’s essential to differentiate the use of coaching for development from coaching for change. What’s the difference between coaching for change versus coaching for development? The Difference Between Coaching for Development and Coaching for Change. Strategic intent.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 1, 2024

But the failure points often lie in the gray zones between departments: Going Sideways: Processes Need to be Managed Horizontally Most organizations are structured vertically, but customers experience them horizontally. Key reasons horizontal process management is needed: Functional silos and chimneys create errors, delays, and waste.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Leading through a layoff is one of the most unnerving challenges you can face as a manager. And, I had lost some of my best managers- – many of who had become close friends. We managed to sustain momentum, but it wasn’t easy. If you’ve moved on to the rebuilding stage, here are a few tips that can help.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 16, 2023

This discourse ventures into the heart of adept change management, spotlighting four pivotal realms that form the cornerstone of any triumphant metamorphosis. This metamorphosis often necessitates tailored training and development initiatives, equipping team members with the requisite skills and insights for the new order.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

In my experience, the most effective long-term engagement strategies build a foundation on which front-line managers feel empowered to create an environment that promotes employee enrichment. In turn, it was the manager’s responsibility to help clear a path and coach their employees into a new position. Connect with them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Recently, I interviewed three human resources professionals from organizations where we partner to deliver long-term leadership development. Meet your experts: Jessica Schwaller, Senior Director of Associate Performance and Development at Kforce. Perhaps you make mistakes that sabotage your opportunity to transform results.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I currently mentor a close colleague, who has recently experienced probably the worst example of organisational restructuring and change management that I have witnessed in over forty years! Its mission is to help people and communities develop, grow and become sustainable. Oh, the irony! Focusing on the Long-term.

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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. General Leadership Leadership Lessons Organizational Development change management leadership leadership presence World Bank' Another goal is to reduce expenses.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. A leadership development plan also acts as a compass for navigating change.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Raising productivity Researchers conducted a study involving 453 college-educated professionals, including marketers, grant writers, consultants, data analysts, human resource professionals, and managers, to assess the impact of generative AI on worker productivity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2012

Is it ever OK to demote a manager back to their former position? Some companies or managers won’t even allow it, under any circumstances. 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. No one is being bumped to make room for the manager.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

While change management is sometimes couched as being all about “winning hearts and minds,” the truth is more nuanced: change comes with a cost — and is not necessarily positive for all stakeholders. Use polarity management as an avenue to address resistance. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Employers and policymakers are increasingly recognizing the importance of alternative routes to skill development and are exploring ways to better integrate and recognize these pathways in education and workforce development systems. However, as employers have come to prioritize degrees over skills, STARs have been displaced from 7.4

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

An organisation recruited me to help resolve an internal team issue arising from a budget-driven restructuring programme. They intended to remove management posts and re-shape staffing levels. As a result, I had to stabilise and lead the team, pending the recruitment of a new manager and some additional part-time support staff.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The study included a survey of 682 managers, wherein they were asked about the prevalence, nature, and perceived impact of chance events, as well as how their individual characteristics related to these events and career outcomes. The post How Chance Influences Our Career first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results. A management group of a struggling administrative section in a large bureaucratic organization, were discussing how well they’ve done in moving paperwork through their organization.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

They offer the advantages of increased information flow across boundaries, deeper development of expertise and knowledge, and greater flexibility and responsiveness. However, the disadvantages will quickly outweigh the advantages if leaders think this is simply a matter of restructuring or drawing dotted lines on an organizational chart.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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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. Someone who wants to manage others can still get there. Managing others is not for everyone. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders. The hierarchy worked – for some. Some rungs disappeared.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2023

A Strategic Approach to Conflict Management To truly address office drama and create drama-free workplaces , HR professionals need to embrace a strategic approach to conflict management. However, this reactive approach only adds fuel to the fire, further entangling HR in the drama and exacerbating the tensions.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

David Nielson brings over four decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training. David has helped guide large-scale change initiatives and business strategy driven by ERP, mergers, restructuring, and the need for cultural change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Or, you just went through a big restructure, and suddenly you’re leading a team of people who don’t know you or one another. Practice Celebration and Accountability. Does any of this sound familiar? Your business quadrupled in the past year and new people are everywhere.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. This assumption is pervasive: A recent study revealed that 76 percent of managers believed their organizations didn’t have the capabilities needed to move into the future.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 29, 2019

A management consulting firm. David Nielson brings over three decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training. He is the owner of David Nielsen & Associates (DNA).

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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. Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. The current process has been on-going for months.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2012

Esther Dyson reflects on one of those ways: restructuring institutional norms. The trick is to honor the past (or the present) while talking about the benefits of the new management. In Rippling , by Beverly Schwartz explores five strategic ways that social entrepreneurs change social systems. This can be hard to do.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Our bank management training group dwindled down as we became “leaders” and landed new roles. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors. Wish us luck!

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2024

Managers spend a significant amount of time – around 6 hours per week – dealing with it. Studies show that over 95 percent of people who receive training on conflict resolution training report it helps them manage conflict in the workplace, and those with adequate training are more likely to seek win-win solutions. Employees spend 2.1

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Lead from Within

MAY 21, 2019

That requires that you become strategic with managing your time and that you make coaching a consistent priority. Unlike most other learning and development processes, you are responsible for setting your own learning objectives, crafting session agendas and structuring the coaching schedule. Think of what you want to accomplish.

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