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STRATEGY: Why HR Should Have a Seat at the Corporate Table
Awhile back I was talking with an HR colleague who had been through the worst three years of his long career, having closed several plants and laid off over 1,500 people. He talked about how utterly...
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LEADERSHIP: Open Door Policies: Do They Help or Hinder
You’ve probably heard this statement before; in fact, you’ve probably even said it yourself: “my door is always open.” Chances are you said it to someone, whether it be an employee, customer or...
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Is Residual Resistance Killing Your New Change Initiative?
We have often mentioned David Gleicher’s change formula – D X V X F > R – as an important sequencing of tasks when building a change initiative. When so many leaders jump into the F – First Steps –...
View ArticleEFFECTIVE MEETINGS: Using 6 Thinking Hats For More Productive Meetings
The article from New Directions focuses on using the Six Thinking Hats model as a way to get more productive meetings in less time.
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EFFECTIVE MEETINGS: Put On Your Yellow Hat and Decrease Meeting Time by 50%
Guestblogger: Leslie S. Schreiber, M. Ed, is owner of Schreiber Training, a corporate training company designed to decrease stress and increase productivity through improved workplace communication...
View ArticlePresident of CAP COM Federal Credit Union Endorses Survival of the Hive Book
Paula Stopera, President of CAP COM Federal Credit Union, endorses the Survival of the Hive book written by Deborah Mackin and Matthew Harrington and talks about why she “thinks it’s one of the best...
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What Employees Really Want to Know that Only Leadership Can Answer
Every organization today is going through some sort of change, whether it’s technological, growth, diversification, globalization, or just the transformation of the workforce generations. Employees...
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The Façade of Teaming and What Real Teaming Looks Like
No matter where we go or who we talk with about implementing a team-based organization, there is usually the “we’re pretty much teaming now” or “our teams are really at a high performance already”...
View ArticleTrending: Employee Engagement (If not now, soon)
Every so often we try to take a step back here at New Directions and analyze the landscape of organizational development. Where are we at and where are we all going? What will we be talking about in...
View ArticleSidecar Leadership and the Need to Build Your Leadership Bench
According to a recent 2014 report from DDI and The Conference Board’s Global Leadership Forecast, the challenges CEOs see as most critical in the near future are human capital, customer relationships,...
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