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I Do Not Want to Lead

Traditionally, most employees wanted to grow into leadership positions in their career.  A measure of your value to an organization related to how quickly you moved from doing the work to overseeing those that do the work.  Although different generations … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Talent Management

We are all in the people business.  Several years ago I worked with a group of managers to develop new methods of managing their talent.  After a few minutes of discussion, a high level manager raised his hand and said … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Communication

How many times have you heard “just because you can talk does not mean you can communicate?” Early in my career I worked for a manager that loved this expression.  As a junior level employee, I would find that I … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Leadership

An organization cannot be successful without leadership.  Regardless of personality, background, or education, employees desire effective leadership to inspire, motivate, and provide role models for them.  A successful leader has the tools and motivation skills to accomplish great things through … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Performance

Most of us discuss some form of performance on a regular basis. When we talk about our automobiles, sports teams, or even retirement accounts, performance forms the basis of the conversation.  In our minds, there is typically a standard we … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Innovation

When my youngest was small, she was completely mesmerized by marine life.  She loved television shows, books, magazines, or just about anything that had to do with whales, dolphins, turtles, or other large sea animals.  Curiously, she did not have … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Workplace Culture

Like other organizational characteristics, we talk a lot about workplace culture without having a clear definition of what it really is. It is something that we know it when we see it, but have a hard time identifying its length … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: Engagement Connection

It has become part of accepted business wisdom that engagement plays a role in how well an organization performs.  Most of us accept that as the workforce becomes more engaged, it performs at a higher level thus increasing the overall … Continue reading

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The Road to Organizational Effectiveness

Most things do not just happen from spontaneous creation.  There is imagination, planning, and effort that goes into creation and transformation.  Several years ago I worked with a consultant who usually introduced himself as an “idea guy.”  He would sit … Continue reading

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Organizational Effectiveness: What Makes An Organization Successful?

Effectiveness is often thought of as part of the “all good things” that a successful organization desires to possess.  Just like an individual wants to be “healthy, wealthy, and wise,” we describe how our organizations aspire to be efficient, effective, … Continue reading

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