Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. Here’s the link: [link] I could not help but to reflect on my personal experience in my last executive role where I needed to stand up to a bully boss. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams.

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Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 9, 2024

Antiquated Hiring Philosophy May Hamper Growth Recently, I applied and interviewed for an open executive position at a well-established company in the construction industry. Despite its success and expansion, my experience with their hiring process raised serious concerns.

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Harmonious Workplaces

AUGUST 30, 2024

Ignoring ethics can risk damage to life and limb, not just profits and reputation I once worked for a crane company — a business that rents large construction equipment to move heavy loads. Even though I served as the marketing director, I underwent the same on-the-job workplace safety training as anyone in the field.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Development, on the other hand is a constructive conspiracy. Jim Smith has over 40 years of organization development experience in a wide range of organizations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Organizational Development Book. Your team should know that skillfully convening and leading group conversations is an important competency, and that your expectation is to always have constructive, useful meetings. You might want to even encourage people to include meeting facilitation skills in their development goals.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2023

While many industries have struggled to reach — and sustain — gender equality, progress has been particularly slow in mining and other traditionally male-dominated industries.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In practice, this mean setting up what I call “living laboratory” leadership development. In its place, switch to constructing self-directed experiences for participants that replicate the precise contexts they need to lead in. Make no mistake, attending to all four of these factors is a sizable challenge.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) — “Prehistoric OD” By Carter McNamara on March 5, 2012. The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

How you position the meeting and what you say is essential, but how the team responds to the constructive conflict will determine if there is safety. How Can You Accelerate Leadership Development? Leadership development is best viewed as a system and not an event. Henry Ford Development Readiness.

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