Archive for August, 2007
Change Management: The High Cost of Change Failures
Thursday, August 30th, 2007You win some, you lose some. Lest we imagine that a failed change initiative is a victimless crime, however, let us count the victims, and the aftereffects of a false start.
1. Loss of jobs. People lose their jobs when change fails to achieve hoped-for results. In the case of many initiatives, lost jobs is the hoped-for [...]
Change Management: Seven Unchangeable Rules of Change
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Mark them well. In 40,000 years, they have not changed one iota. When designing any change initiative, it is important to keep these rules in mind
1. People do what they perceive is in their best interest, thinking as rationally as circumstances allow them to think. We call this the law of PUSH.
The New Why Teams Don’t Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Many teams run into trouble, say Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, because teams themselves fail to think through the human implications of teaming. This practical guide teaches team members and team leaders how to maintain the highest level of team intelligence – providing the skills, attitudes, and emotional flexibility needed to get the most out [...]
Team Building: The Myth That People Like Working Together
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Say you have just been to a galvanizing seminar on high performing teams, or read one of the excellent happy team books that abound on business bookshelves. You are excited about the potential teams have. You decide to “GO TEAM” with your colleagues.
You think, if we are to be a team, we must live, eat, [...]
Workshop: Interpersonal Skills Training
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007What is it?
The INTERPERSONAL SKILLS Training Workshop is one of the most powerful two days you can spend learning how to better understand and get along with others. It is also offered as a one-day format. The Interpersonal Skills Training workshop is designed to help participants discover and value the interpersonal differences between people and [...]
Workshop: Change Management Strategies Training
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007What is it?
Merger – acquisition integration, Re-engineering; Total Quality Management; Value-based Disciplines; Benchmarking; Transformation. Companies are encountering the forces of change management brought on by the changing nature of global competition. As a result, they have embraced dozens of new change management initiatives in recent years. Yet, despite well-intentioned efforts, the bottom line remains the [...]
Workshop: Team Leadership Skills Training
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The economy has stalled. Smaller companies are either being gobbled up or cobbled down. Larger companies are undergoing the largest merger-fest in U.S. history in order to stay globally competitive. Business strategies have been painfully twisted and squeezed to bolster the bottom lines of too many companies with too few customers. The result of all [...]
Workshop: Leadership Skill Training
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007What do successful leaders actually do? They drive results, maximize people, communicate vision and goals, and leverage systems. Leadership Skill Training is a workshop about understanding and using your natural talent to succeed in these leadership arenas. It’s about enhancing your leadership skills and leveraging your natural personality.
This workshop discusses the two sides of leadership [...]
Workshop: Team Building Training
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007What is it?
Today’s companies are fast turning to team building as a means for organizing and doing work. In theory, teams increase productivity; they improve communication; they make better use of resources; they are more creative and more efficient at solving problems; they make and implement higher quality decisions.
In reality, however, many companies and managers [...]
Team Building: Team Tyranny
Monday, August 20th, 2007One of the worst and most expensive decisions organizations make is to establish a high performing team system, when all they are really after is an atmosphere of greater collaboration.
Collaboration is a misunderstood commodity. There are managers out there who still associate it mentally with the negative collaborations (collaborating with the enemy) during World War [...]
Team Building Activity: The Team Biosphere
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007How do you create a great high performing team atmosphere?
First ask, whose job is it to do this?
It is everyone’s responsibility to create a high performance teaming atmosphere, by fulfilling their roles within the team. I use the phrase “organizational karma” to describe this shared responsibility for climate control – karma being the wheel of consequences, with [...]