I worked with a senior manager named Bill in the mid-80’s who thought that fanny patting demonstrated a positive climate of team spirit. Needless to say, eventually an employee filed a complaint. To say Bill was unrepentant at my our first meeting is like saying a pit bull can become mildly annoyed if provoked.
I began to quote [...]
Posts Tagged ‘leadership changes’
How Leaders Can Connect People to the Need for Change Part 3
How New Leaders Connect People to the Need for Change Part 2
Is a picture worth a thousand words? And if so, how a leader use this principle to connect people to the need for change? John Kotter, noted Harvard professor and author of such books as The Heart of Change and What Managers Really Do, wrote that there are eight steps to leading an organizational change [...]
How New Leaders Connect People to the Need for Change
Effective leadership changes accelerate when a newly hired or promoted leader achieves 2-3 critical wins within their first three months in their role. These “small enough to win, big enough to matter” wins are generally dependent on their team becoming aware, accepting, and actively engaging with the need for the status quo to change. We all know [...]
Nature or Nurture? What You Believe About Your Talent Capacity Is True!
I read an interesting article in the Business section of today’s New York Times entitled, “If you’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow”. The author, Janet Rae-Dupree asks the question, “Is it possible to shift from a fixed mind-set to a growth mind-set?”. To answer this question, Rae-Dupree quotes Stamford psychologist Carol Dweck’s three [...]
Onboarding Tales from Newly Hired Leaders
I presented the topic: Best Practices for Making Leadership Changes Effective from Day 1” at the monthly meeting of the Human Resources Management Association of New Mexico last week. Over a third of the 150 attendees were engaged enough in the topic of onboarding and leadership transitions to complete an online pre-meeting survey. One of [...]