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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being. Hal Leonard. Stubbers, J.

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Episode 29: Stakeholder Engagement in Change Management

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Communication is key to successful change management, but even with clear, concise messaging, you’ll always have that one person who says, “This is the first time I’m hearing about this!” ” To avoid this, organizations must be intentional about engaging stakeholders throughout the entire change process.

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Episode 30: The Importance of Flexibility in Change Management

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Whether it’s driven by new technologies, evolving markets, or internal reorganizations, organizations must be able to adapt and change to thrive. But change can be difficult, and one of the keys to successful change management is flexibility.1 1 What Makes People Inflexible?

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Stay Grounded with a Simple Change Management Framework

Harmonious Workplaces

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A few data points illustrate the amount of change people are facing at work: All of that change is overwhelming employees and middle managers: These data come from two surveys1,2 conducted in the first half of 2023 and reinforce our own […] The post Stay Grounded with a Simple Change Management Framework appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces. (..)

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Strengthen Your GenAI Rollout with Established Change Management Principles

Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 8, 2024

How Change Management Will Benefit Your Artificial Intelligence Implementation Generative AI, or genAI, is quickly moving from the bleeding edge of innovation to a proven technology across entire organizations.

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Blues Harmonica Parallels to a Harmonious Workplace

Harmonious Workplaces

JUNE 24, 2024

Some may recall that I play a little bit of harmonica as a hobby.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. This leads to more engaged, more motivated workers which develops a more resilient and adaptive organization.

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Clarity Consultants Named to Training Industry Top 20 Learning Services Company List for the 7th Year in a Row

Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 3, 2023

For over 30 years, we’ve provided consulting talent for every element of learning and talent development including Needs Assessments, Learning Strategy & Planning, Instructional Design & eLearning Development, Training Facilitation & Delivery, Learning Technology Strategy & Support, Organizational Development & Change Management.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

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.

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Why Doesn’t My Software Work?

Harmonious Workplaces

MARCH 23, 2024

If so, the problems may stem from a lack of organizational change management (OCM). Your tech likely functions; you need better OCM Have you ever implemented a piece of technology and deemed it a failure? When I came aboard a firm, the CEO proudly stated that the company adopted Salesforce like many larger competitors.

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Clarity Consultants Named to Training Industry’s Custom Content Development Watch List for Second Year

Clarity Consultants

MAY 25, 2023

For over 30 years, we’ve provided consulting talent for every element of learning and talent development including Needs Assessments, Learning Strategy & Planning, Instructional Design & eLearning Development, Training Facilitation & Delivery, Learning Technology Strategy & Support, Organizational Development & Change Management.

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The Significance of Flexibility in Organizational Structure

Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizational Development Consultants Describe the Top Benefits of Having Flexibility in Organizational Structures Flexible Organizational Structures Enhances Adaptability to Changing Market Conditions Adaptability is the key to survival for a business. That’s a win for everyone involved.

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How to Keep Your Pulse on the People Side of Organizational Change

Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 3, 2023

Why you need an organizational change framework Benjamin Franklin suggested that the only certainty in life is death and taxes. I would add change. And as the world changes, leaders and businesses must change too. Leading change is more than communicating the features, advantages, and benefits of Change.

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Episode 20: Stories of Organizational Change

Harmonious Workplaces

JULY 23, 2024

20: Stories of Organizational Change Welcome to our 20th podcast for today’s milestone podcast. We’ll be talking about some of the best and worst change management experiences we’ve seen. Well, any of these tales of organizational change management resonate with you?

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Podcast Ep 14: Leadership Buy-In for Successful Change

Harmonious Workplaces

JUNE 17, 2024

What’s the one thing you can do to ensure your leaders are fully bought into any change before it’s too late. Welcome to harmonious workplaces, a podcast about corporate culture, organizational change management and workplace behavior. Keep listening to find out.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

My affinity for working with business owners and executives stands as one of the main reasons why I chose to study Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Purdue and to make consulting, organizational development, and change management hallmarks of my career.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. What problems do you solve?

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Episode 16: Leadership in Times of Calm and Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

JULY 3, 2024

What crucial action can change leaders take during a crisis situation within an organization? Welcome to Harmonious Workplaces, a podcast about corporate culture, organizational change management. Keep listening to find out.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. In the following video, Dr.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2021, Dr. Casey DeBruyn recommended, based on my interests and the content of my schoolwork, that I consider organizational development (OD) and change management as career paths in consulting. In 2020, I enrolled at Purdue Global to begin my academic journey in I-O Psychology. That’s a lot of bending!

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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. Career Management. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management.

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Foundations of Consulting ? Part 2: How Do Consultants Work.

Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Implementation Phase (Change Management Phase). ————————— For more resources, see the Library topics Consulting and Organizational Development. Career Management.

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Technical and Interpersonal Skills Aren’t Enough for Consulting by Carter McNamara

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, faculty member of the Consultants Development Institute. The post Technical and Interpersonal Skills Aren’t Enough for Consulting appeared first on Consulting and Organizational Development.

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Strategic Life Planning: Jean St. Pierre’s $100 Million Journey

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

AUGUST 28, 2024

In the latest episode of the Strategy and Leadership Podcast, host Anthony Taylor sits down with Jean St. Pierre , the co-founder and chairman of the Rhombus Group. Jean shares his compelling story of building a $100 million business, losing it all, and then rediscovering his path through deep introspection and strategic planning.

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Why It Is Difficult to Change From Reactive to Innovative and What To Do About It

Cheryl Cran

MAY 14, 2014

I have been a student of consciousness principles for over twenty years in addition to human behavior psychology and organizational development. Think of Neo on the Matrix he was able to navigate the challenges of both worlds by ‘training’ his mind and his skills to mastery.

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How to get your clients to participate in their consulting projects (Part 3 of 3) by Carter McNamara

Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, is a faculty member in the Consultants Development Institute. The post How to get your clients to participate in their consulting projects (Part 3 of 3) appeared first on Consulting and Organizational Development.

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How to get your clients to participate in their consulting projects (Part 2 of 3) by Carter McNamara

Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, is a faculty member of the Consultants Development Institute. The post How to get your clients to participate in their consulting projects (Part 2 of 3) appeared first on Consulting and Organizational Development.

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I-O Psychology Concepts that “Bear” Highlighting

Harmonious Workplaces

JULY 8, 2024

Popular Hulu Series Presents Lessons on Workplace Culture My wife and I started watching the Hulu series “The Bear” a few months ago and excitedly anticipated the third season, which dropped on June 26, 2023. We blitzed through the eight-part series within a week.

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Implementing Technology to Support Change

Harmonious Workplaces

APRIL 4, 2024

What are some best practices for selecting and implementing new technologies to support change? Watch this video with the transcript below: Sometimes, to facilitate organizational change, we need to add another element—new technologies.

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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

If we look at organizational development and the organizational design as a technology of how a system is run, that is exactly the space where the next technological innovation can (also) take place. With the exception of change management projects or employer branding initiatives, where culture was indeed addressed.

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10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.

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10 Signs Your Company Is Resistant to Change

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Often that’s not clear to everyone – because people have developed a number of effective ways to tolerate the problem instead of fix it.

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10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. They argue that most big organizational problems deserve a more urgent response — a metabolic rate that honors the frustration, mediocrity, and pain of the status quo.

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10 Reasons Why Inclusion Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Researchers are identifying and quantifying the many effects of inclusion on firm performance — and the insights they’re generating are persuasive.

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How can I manage employee resistance to change?

Harmonious Workplaces

MARCH 21, 2024

During the ending phase of a change initiative – which is where the current state ends and change begins – people express unhappiness and discomfort. Morale declines, performance decreases, and managers may wish to quit. The best answer I can give based on research: listen to your employees.

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The AI Skills You Should Be Building Now

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A conversation with experts from Accenture on making the most of LLMs.

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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2023

A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 17, 2024

Leverage effective inquiry tactics to diagnose organizational needs As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), I belong to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC USA) and the IMC Chicagoland Chapter.

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