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Mentoring Circles for Professional Development
Mentoring is defined as professional development support provided by experienced colleagues. While this sharing of wisdom and experience is generally focused on the needs of the mentee, the mentor is...
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Engagement: A Key Ingredient for Successful Organizational Change
Engagement by the senior leader and the leadership team is a key ingredient in successful intentional change work. When we work with clients in an intentional change process (sometimes called change...
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Effective Change Efforts – Our Experience
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing with you key elements for consideration whenever an organization is about to begin intentional change process. Wrapping up this series on change, today we’re...
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Using Whole System Meetings to Achieve Change That Works
Organizations need to change in order to meet the challenges of these times, meeting new requirements created by global markets, changing economics, expectations for quality and customer satisfaction....
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Organizational Change Barriers
Formal leaders and the individuals in organizations can usually get into quite a story of what is wrong in their organizations. They may have different opinions about the cause. There are usually many...
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Death By Email…Of Performance, That Is
Death by email is becoming increasingly common. The average business person sends or receives 120 emails per day. Per day! And that number is only going to grow. The challenge with this volume of...
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Consider the Importance of a Healthy Terrain for Your Organization
You might ask, “what does a terrain have to do with an organization?” I am not sure about other words to use as a terrain is greater than a system, greater than a culture, greater than a structure,...
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Medicine Wheel Tool: A Simple Yet Powerful Tool for Organizational Development
The Medicine Wheel Tool is one of the most simple yet most powerful tools we work with in our organizational change and transformation work. Indeed, this model is used as a foundation for nearly all...
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Organizational health and balance is an important foundation for organizational success. It is the pre-condition necessary for all parts of the organization to function at peak performance. Achieving...
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Measuring Leadership Capacity via Units of Energy
Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself 3 simple questions. These questions help me to look after my energy management, so I have what it takes to get through a busy day. The 3 questions that I ask...
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Organizational Compass or Medicine Wheel Tool?
The beauty of this simple tool is that by learning one tool, it will work for you in so many team, organization, community, family and leadership situations. Keeping it simple is one of our guiding...
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Mastermind Groups and Mentoring Circles
The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose." ~ Napoleon Hill, Think and...
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Is a Focus on Learning Organization as Useful as a Focus on Mentoring Circles?
An Executive Director of a local Non-Profit organization asked if I could mentor his leadership team to become a learning organization. For clarity, I asked him whether he was intending the Learning...
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Mentoring with ‘Out of the Box’ Strategies
This morning, sitting on our front porch, listening to the wind chimes, sipping a cup of coffee, I was engaged in one of my favorite daily activities. I love reading science fiction fantasy and I was...
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Creating an Operating Matrix to become Strategy Focused
When we teach about the operating system, or operating matrix, for an organization, we use the metaphor of a computer's operating system. We ask "when was the last time you updated the operating...
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Is Borrowed Anger Affecting You or Your Organization?
It is a very simple question: "Are You Borrowing Someone Else's Anger?". These days, I am noticing a lot of people expressing a lot of anger. I notice this in the media, social media, and in the...
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Something is Wrong but I Can’t Put My Finger On It
As a leader, you sometimes find yourself knowing that something isn't quite right. There aren't any obvious problems. Just a sense that there is something out of alignment in your organization. Maybe...
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Emotional Pain as an Unavoidable Consequence of Doing Business
In his book Toxic Emotions at Work (2003, Harvard Business School Press), the late Dr. Peter Frost wrote about emotional pain as an unavoidable consequence of doing business. He said that while the...
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Be In Your Power – What does it mean?
To be in your power. What picture does it bring up? Speaking up for yourself. Standing firmly for what you believe. Being clear about who you are. Speaking your truth. Or maybe something else. Maybe...
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It is Possible to Turn a Toxic Organization Around
First, the good news. It is possible to turn a toxic organization around. It can become a healthy, vibrant organization. You will notice measurable greater employee engagement. See a measurable...
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