Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Ensure that Ways of Working and Thinking Are Aligned with Your Strategy Once your strategy is clear enough to act, the next step is to ensure that your workplace culture how people think, behave, and act is purposefully aligned with your strategy. Is your culture helping or hindering the achievement of your strategic objectives?

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LSA Global

APRIL 11, 2024

A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. Change management consulting experts define agility as the capacity of an organization to anticipate, respond to, and capitalize on internal and external changes.

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LSA Global

JUNE 13, 2024

Done right, effective change leaders ensure that goals are met in a way that ensures both the business and the people emerge stronger and healthier than before. Can your leaders articulate a clear and compelling enough vision for change?

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2023

Change Management Traps to Avoid Sand traps in golf are designed to penalize wayward shots. Change management consulting experts feel the same about change management traps to avoid. Change management consulting experts feel the same about change management traps to avoid.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2022

Agile Organizations In general, agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. We need more agile mindsets at work. What are its trademarks?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers. Leaders also have an outsize impact on the collective mindset — meaning the organizational culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Culture identifies what is essential and reinforces communication norms and behaviors for leaders—cultural forces impact leadership communication effectiveness and, ultimately, organizational effectiveness.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? But if that organization does not also have a healthy degree of cultural flexibility, they may not survive. Do you have an adaptable enough corporate culture to thrive during times of change? How people think, behave, and work matters.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile. The effectiveness of change management. Organizational culture. Leadership support, collaboration, and openness to change can influence the speed of adoption and the ability to achieve expected results.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2024

How to Create Successful Change Partnerships at Work Organizational change must go through your culture and your people to be successfully implemented. The ability to create change partnerships at work is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of successful change. Regular check-ins (e.g.,

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Ben de Haldevang

MAY 10, 2023

The latest podcast in the Agile Gorilla Collective series. This is particularly relevant given the fact that DeepMind was acquired 9 years ago with some very clear conditions…the appetite for change is going to be limited!

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Do You Leverage Change Friction to Change Behaviors at Work? Experienced leaders know that organizational change is a constant and vital force that either propels strategies and people forward or stops them in their tracks. New strategies and changes must go through your culture and your people to be successfully implemented.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

When to Change Business Strategies: The Top 5 Reasons We know from organizational culture assessment data that the way work gets done must change when strategies change. When to Change Business Strategies? Strategy retreats and new business models take precious time, effort, and resources to get right.

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LSA Global

JULY 18, 2024

Tips to Mitigate Confirmation Bias Encourage psychological team safety and a culture of constructive debate where team members feel comfortable voicing and challenging assumptions. Tips to Mitigate Overconfidence Bias Foster a culture of humility, benchmarking, continuous learning. It can also lead to complacency.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

It demands aligning top leadership for change to guide those affected by change through the inevitable ups and downs of organizational transformation. The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

This is due to consultants being submerged into different teams and cultures. This is where agile methodologies come in. Consultant, Nadia Kondrup, says “agile project management is the way forward for developing”. Nonetheless, countless companies have already implemented the process of agile methodologies.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Organizational Alignment Lens Corporate strategies must go through people and culture to be successfully implemented. Once strategic opportunities are identified, leaders must invest the time and effort to fully align their culture and their people to the new strategic direction.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2020

Assess Change Readiness to Know Where You Stand. We think of change management as the proven tools, techniques, and processes to effectively manage the people side of change. We think of change readiness as how ready an organization is to undertake a change. Where Are Your Change Blind Spots.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

We know from change management simulation data that successful teams are built on a foundation of clearly defined roles that ensure efficiency, accountability, and collaboration. Team culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing teams. Tricky and often shifting stakeholder expectations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Mindset: Companies will create a profound shift in culture and ways of working. Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

When behavioral change in the workplace is required, change management consulting experts know the reaction of those affected by change is often one of frustration and resistance. So the question is: How can you help those most affected by change to embrace new ways of working required to get where you want to go?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

Yet, the traditional approach to strategy typically assumes modest shifts in markets, competitors, partners, strategies, cultures, and talent. Invest in Creating a Resilient Culture Your strategy must go through your people and your workplace culture to be successfully implemented.

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LSA Global

APRIL 13, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an Emerging Leader Training. Net Promoter Score. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

“He hates change.” This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. That’s the agile way to do it.” “I can just hear Erkan saying that,” Sophie said. ” “Or hates everything I touch,” Sena replied. “So what?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

96% Job Relevance 97% Satisfaction 92% Net Promoter Score These experienced leaders were charged with project management , program management, and portfolio management across previously siloed functions and departments that were used to doing their own thing and being successful within their own span of control.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 28, 2016

Where credit unions have the advantage is that we are agile and first to market with many things such as ATM’s, pictures of checks etc. We need to be agile and ready to adapt to the ongoing disruptions. The culture at Starbucks was one of acceptance of the diversity of leadership styles and there was opportunity to succeed.

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Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”! ” (from a global customer experience subject matter expert) “Organisational and cultural transformation – be it through M&A or otherwise – remains a ever-present part of business life.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Understand the Current Customer Experience Just like any transformational change effort, successful customer experience redesigns start by doing a current state analysis to determine how employees and customers fully experience buying from and being served by you.

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Cheryl Cran

AUGUST 21, 2016

Organizations are faced with managing change at a faster rate than ever before and the fast pace of change requires agile and future ready leaders. Leadership development programs need to be a combination of online, video, case studies and coaching.

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