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Leadership Lessons From LEGO
How many of us think of large-scale change as daunting efforts with missing pieces, risks, and unforeseen consequences? Engagement leader - Ken Perlman thinks otherwise in these 5 leadership pointers, inspired by an innovative LEGO-filled weekend. Want to have fun or read the manual? Ken relates coaching a client through transformational change, to building a complex LEGO set with his daughters!
Read MoreThree Questions to Assess Your Change Readiness
Situational awareness is knowing what goes on around you and responding accordingly. How do you increase such readiness to lead change in your team and organization? These 3 questions help you face opportunities and challenges of change. Read on for more ideas to build situational awareness!
Read MoreNegotiating to Win-win During Change
You are in the throes of negotiating organizational changes with high stakes and an aggressive timeframe. What can you do to ensure surety, even exit victoriously? Read these 4 actions that position you to win with a 'BIG W' while allowing the other team to also win with a 'small w'.
Read MoreHow to Handle Bewitching Temptations During Organizational Change
During organizational change, you can expect to meet many who hold strong views and who seem uninterested in anything but a monologue. How do we engage them in a dialogue? Here are 4 ways you can get yourself prepared to handle them.
Read MoreNow What?! Finding Grace in the Space
Organizational change disrupts predictability, and erodes our perceived control. What can we do as a leader or a member of the team undergoing change? Implement these suggestions among your stakeholders, to build positive responses, abilities, trust and support.
Read MoreTwo Ears and One Mouth: Use Accordingly During Organizational Change
Are you communicating during organizational change? Is there a difference between just hearing what people are saying and actively listening to them? Demonstrate 5 key elements of active listening to show your respect and understanding of the other person.
Read MoreWishing Y’all Lots of Failure During Organizational Change
No one is invincible. Yet failure may be one of the most uncomfortable feelings we experience personally or professionally. But just what value can we find in failure? Read these 5 perspectives for a paradigm shift.
Read MoreHow To Keep People From Feeling Left Out
During Organizational Change
Social rejection is hard especially during organizational change. As a leader, what can we do to encourage inclusion while our team adjusts to the change underway? Exercise these 3 conversational routines to build a team that’s comfortable and confident navigating through change.
Read MoreEmpower Employees: Try 3 Before Me
Team member empowerment can accelerate changes. How do we enable our team members to use the power and skills they already have? Apply these 3 principles of employee empowerment with the Try 3 Before Me approach.
Read MoreImpact of Holding Your Breath During Organizational Change
Change resisters can quickly erode any effort or momentum in organizationa change, and even stop change in its tracks. So what can we do to turn change aversion around? Employ these 4 tools to get people on board.
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