Posts Tagged ‘CHANGE MANAGEMENT’
The Challenge of Making Balanced Decisions
We’ve all been there – facing a tough decision that feels like navigating a maze in the dark. Sometimes, our minds are buzzing with facts, figures, and data, while other times, our emotions surge like a rollercoaster ride. It’s the human experience, and it can be oh-so-complicated. We stumble, we fumble, and we occasionally find…
Read MoreCharting a Course For Change: What Pilots Can Teach Other Leaders About Change
Change is an inherent part of life. It presents itself in various forms and contexts, from organizational transformations to personal growth journeys. Change is the nature of life, no matter how much we may wish for constants, change comes with or without our will. It’s therefore worth acknowledging that navigating change can be a complex…
Read MoreThe Leadership of Guiding Change
Guiding change is described as managing, mobilizing, understanding, and leading change. It includes knowing how to mitigate consequences, overcome resistance to change, and deal with the reactions that team members may have to that change. Leadership itself IS all about change, not status quo – and guiding change takes some particular insight and care. “They”…
Read More#5 The Challenges of Leadership – Guiding Change
We’ve come to the 5th Leadership Challenge in our 6 part series – the challenge of Guiding Change. According to William A. Gentry, Regina H. Eckert, Sarah A. Stawiski, and Sophia Zhao’s whitepaper on the subject, guiding change is described as managing, mobilizing, understanding, and leading change. It includes knowing how to mitigate consequences, overcome…
Read MorePAUSE – and read this.
I’m often asked which, of all the Communication Tools I teach, is my favourite, and if there’s one that I couldn’t do without, it’s The Pause. There are poems written about taking time to smell the roses etc, and I’m all for finding those moments to be present and appreciative of the world as it…
Read MoreCharacteristics of a Team and Barriers To Effective Team Functioning
Back in 2010, I posted a short list titled, “Eight Common Problems Teams Encounter.” In it, I reposted the contents of what was shared on Harvard Business Review’s Answer Exchange (it’s now defunct). I was never happy with that original list and, after looking through the book (Leading Teams: Pocket Mentor [2006]) that was adapted…
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