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Planning Ahead: Addressing Crucial Risks of Remote Work

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Fortunately, there are many proven best practices related to remote work, since it has been around for decades. In our current situation, however, many organizations have been thrown into remote work and were not ready. From the documentation related to remote work, we know it has the potential to greatly lower costs for your business while increasing employee happiness and productivity, and you may be seeing stark advantages already! [Read more…]

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Is This an Opportunity for Purposeful Change for Businesses?

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Is This an Opportunity for Purposeful Change for Businesses?

There is no question that we are in a crisis. This week, I have spoken with several organizations that are either laying off or furloughing significant percentages of their workforces. The news is not good. More and more leaders seem to be close to panic as the situation worsens, revenues have diminished or ceased altogether, and the unknowns have grown. In times like these, leaders must lead and plan the path forward.

Times like these are always fearful because we know that businesses are closing and individuals are suffering incredible losses to their livelihoods, their families, and their health. However, there may be things you and your organization can do to try to survive and to navigate this time — and potentially emerge better than before.

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9 Tips for Effectively Managing Remote Work

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With the Coronavirus, more and more organizations’ workers are working remotely. Fortunately, remote work has been around for decades, so there is a lot of information about making it work. Today, however, many organizations are being immersed in remote work unexpectedly, and they may not be ready.

During 9 years of my career, I was a remote employee, and there were some high points and some low points.  Based on that employee experience and on my consulting experience in creating, implementing and supporting virtual teams, I offer a few tips on making remote work “work” for your organization. [Read more…]

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Can your leaders lead?

In a recent blog, I advocated for organizations’ developing a leadership pipeline in order to have the leaders they will need in the future. That blog item made the case for going beyond typical leadership training and development to understanding and building the competencies and skills leaders will need to have five or more years from now — and those skills might be very different from the ones required today. [Read more…]

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How Healthy is Your Leadership Pipeline?

At some regular interval, your organization refreshes its strategic plan.  Perhaps you did that in Q4 as you set this year’s budget.  Now that you are well into the new year, have you thought about one of the key factors that will help you meet the plan: your organization’s leadership pipeline?  Do you have that nagging question in the back of your mind that you may not have the leadership needed to achieve the near- or long-term plan?  Do you have a structure and process in place to develop the leaders you’ll need?  Current leadership development processes and programs in your organization may be doing a good job of developing today’s leaders, but what about tomorrow’s? [Read more…]

At some regular interval, your organization refreshes its strategic plan.  Perhaps you did that in Q4 as you set this year’s budget.  Now that you are well into the new year, have you thought about one of the key factors that will help you meet the plan: your organization’s leadership pipeline?  Do you have that nagging question in the back of your mind that you may not have the leadership needed to achieve the near- or long-term plan?  Do you have a structure and process in place to develop the leaders you’ll need?  Current leadership development processes and programs in your organization may be doing a good job of developing today’s leaders, but what about tomorrow’s? [Read more…]

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Is It Time for an Organizational Vision Check?

From time to time, even leading-edge organizations find themselves with stagnant, ingrown environments impervious to innovation or with redundant and cumbersome systems. Many organizations come to a point where they find themselves experiencing frustration, risk aversion, mediocre performance, employee dissatisfaction, and low service responsiveness. Recently, a leader in a very large global organization reported to me what he is experiencing: lack of innovation, stagnancy, lack of direction, rampant internal conflicts, exceptionally poor morale, poor performance, and outdated processes. [Read more…]
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Four Key Leadership Principles for Developing a Climate of Truth

Every day I am inundated in information, articles, and social media shares about leadership and its relationship to organizational performance and culture. One thing we don’t hear as much about is leadership and the importance of nurturing a climate of honesty in the organization. It caused me to think about organizations and leaders I have known who have been the best at cultivating honesty. The challenge is this: in some organizations, the higher you are in the hierarchy, the less you know about the real truth related to processes and performance. (I know of one location where the off-quality product was hidden in the pond on the property to keep the CEO and other leadership from knowing about it.) [Read more…]
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