It’s What You Can’t See That Drives Momentum and Motivation During Change

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One of the 10 simple rules for getting employees ready for change is celebrate your successes. When I first introduce this rule most leaders think about the celebration of tangible outcomes and key milestones.

Tapping into Collective Intelligence to Drive Innovation and Enable Healthy Organizational Change

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Active involvement is an essential element for healthy organizational change. Active involvement enables you to capture and harness the collective intelligence of your team, employees, and leaders.

Modelling: A Necessary Ingredient for Building Commitment During Organizational Change

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Every day in your organization vicarious learning is happening—negatively and positively. You see it when that new employee begins to emulate some of the same undesirable traits of another employee or as team members quickly learn the social cues for using the lunchroom or talking to “the boss”.

What To Do To Avoid Your Conversations Dying a Slow Death in the Communication Desert

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Today, communication as come to mean giving information. In my experience, when a leader says she has communicated or had a conversation with her team she usually means she as given them information.

The Myth of Rational Thought

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To capture and use the emotional energy that is part of every change, stop asking, how do I avoid the emotional stuff? And start asking, how do I help me and my team channel our emotional energy without letting it be the driver?