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

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?
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Stop Multi-Tasking

Are you a multi-tasker? I wore the ability to multi-task as a badge of honour for many years, I even chided my husband for not being able to do multiple things at once. That is until I discovered his approach of mono-tasking was better. Multi-tasking gives you the illusion of productivity when it, in reality, makes you less productive.

How to Maintain Culture in a Virtual Environment

Organizational culture change is a big topic. I usually work with organizations that want to change their culture. Like the professional services company that used a physical move as the catalyst toward a more team-based, collaborative, and cross-functional culture. There is another aspect of culture that doesn’t get much attention—what do you do to maintain culture? That was a question a senior executive in a major law firm asked when we were talking about leading and managing in a virtual environment.

Four Words Every Leader Needs to Know to Lead and Manage Organizational Change

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Leading and managing change is not always easy and it can be challenging to know what to do in every situation, even when you have a change management methodology. For several years now I have been a fan of finding and using key words to help keep me focused and guide my thinking.

We’re Proud to Announce our New Partnership

Turner Change Management is proud to announce that we have partnered with Calibrate Legal as their change management service provider.

A Conversation with Entegra Credit Union

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Today we are going to share how one company is taking change management from just another item on a to do list to integrating into their leadership practice.

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