It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Your expertise in organization development can help solve many of the problems that today’s leader cares about: improving culture, increasing engagement, high performing teams, diversity, succession planning, innovation, strategy development. But when you try explaining what you do, they just don’t get it. And to complicate …
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This month’s OD Innovator Spotlight features Al Cini, founder, and managing partner of BCAT Partners, as well as co-host of RVN TV’s CEO Chat streaming video program. For more than 30 years, he has helped organizations promote successful business outcomes by lowering the behavioral barriers to open communication and willing …
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You want more collaboration. You want teams performing at their highest level. And you want to build a culture of success. But because the organization is steeped in hierarchy it’s difficult to build consensus on how to do that. Leaders think leaders think they’re already collaborating, and you know they’re …
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In today’s dynamic world, organizations must continuously adapt to stay relevant, which requires embarking on projects to deliver innovation and improvements. Despite the fact that an entire industry revolves around project management, most organizations lack the tools and skills to succeed at this critical function. An organization’s most valuable work …
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Leaders talk a good game about when it comes to collaboration. They’ve watched competitors out-innovate them and suddenly get religion around cross-functional collaboration. So, they collect inputs from stakeholders and collect those inputs to make a decision, which then gets shared with the team. But that’s not collaboration. It’s merely …
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This month’s OD Innovator Spotlight features marketing veteran JP Laqueur, co-founder of BrandFoundations, a New York-based consultancy that helps organizations align culture with the larger brand story. He is the author of the article “Mission, Vision & Values Are Dead,” which has been shared thousands of times on LinkedIn. How …
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For many people, the new year represents opportunities for both professional and personal growth. January 1 ushers in new strategies for organizations where fiscal and calendar years coincide. And who hasn’t made at least one New Year’s resolution at some point in their lives? Whether implementing a new inventory management …
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I believe we are reaching a tipping point where organizations are finally moving away from the command-and-control structures on which they were founded because that’s what has been holding them back. It’s being driven by a powerful undercurrent of “New Power” that’s changing the nature of work, and the innovative …
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What is a culture of success? Well, it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It's a culture in which everyone feels successful. Where the organization is a success–it's achieving its strategic goals, which, by the way, very few organizations actually accomplish. It's a culture where teams are high-performing and …
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What does it mean for organizations to practice corporate social responsibility (CSR)? It seems there’s no time like the present to depose companies for their shady business practices. Too often, either a whistleblower or disenfranchised worker is revealing how their employer is mistreating their workforce, taking advantage of consumers, or …
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