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Manage the pain of change

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I like condensed exformative blog posts about leadership, especially if they are about "organizational change management". So, I was very pleased when I found a link in my Intra to the post "How leaders can handle the pain of change ", written by Melissa Lanier in the Linked 2 leadership blog. Melissa states "Very quickly, the people in an organization can go from positive and committed to actively disengaged . Change will fail if it is executed by disengaged people who are going through the motions to collect a paycheck. Leaders must connect with people and communicate through the pain of change to drive commitment". She clarifies the 7 questions every leader must answer in order to properly handle the pain of change in your organization: Where are we going?  As a leader, you must paint the picture of where this change is going to take your organization.  Tie your change initiative to organizational vision and values so that all it makes sen

Moderna Mållgan goes IT

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Det finns många sätt att marknadsföra sig på. Knowit har valt att via Computer Sweden och DI köra olika "serie-strippar" under temat "Dom kallar oss IT-KONSULTER". Jag tycker nedan strip - " Moderna Mållgan " är klockren;

SCARF - smörja sociala hjärnor

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Jag gillar små modeller. Sprang på en för mig ny alldeles nyss i en artikel om hjärnan via chef.se : SCARF-modellen ( läs hela artikeln i chef här ). Jag citerar: För att nå goda resultat i en organisation är det därför helt avgörande att chefen förstår hur man bäst smörjer medarbetarnas "sociala hjärnor". Det menar Marie Ryd, vetenskapsjournalist och tidigare forskare vid Karolinska Institutet. Numera arbetar hon med prenumerationstjänsten Holone ( www.holone.se ), som informerar om just kognitiv och social neurovetenskap . Modellen SCARF står för: Status ( Status ) - handlar om att man som chef måste förstå hur man med enkla medel kan höja sina medarbetares status. Förutsägbarhet ( Certainty ) - handlar om att alltid, även under större förändringar, tydliggöra förväntningar och ha hög transparens på arbetsplatsen. Självständighet ( Autonomy ) - handlar om att lita på medarbetarna, eftersträva hög autonomi, dvs en känsla av att medarbetarna kan påverka sin egen s

Network leaders changing company tribes?

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How do you perform change management in large organisations? How do you use the power of organisational tribes within large organisations? How do you boost the network leaders in a company? I have more and more come to believe that units of about 100-150 people are a reasonable size in order to be effective. Many companies have implemented their organisations using this size and the evidence for this "group size being effective" goes back to the ancient tribe societies many thousand years ago. In a large organisation with many thousand people - how do you really support these tribes ? When having identified the existing tribes, you should understand the value of using the tribe leaders within the company. Top management who are steering the company towards a new vision, making new strategies and rolling out transformation plans should always remember that the cultural change will still be headed by the tribe leaders. And, in all organisations you have persons that a

Think the opposite by Paul Arden

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As part of a mentoring program in Tieto, we got the opportunity to choose a leadership book as inspiration. Myself and my mentee chose " Whatever you think - Think the opposite " by Paul Arden . The cover page explains the focus of the book: This book explains the benefits of making bad decisions It shows how risk is your security in life And why unreason is better than reason It´s about having the confidence to roll the dice I love the book. It is exformative , condensed, sharp, raw, honest, bold... Full of inspiration and passion. Well, some sample quotes from the book : There is no right point of view There is a conventional or popular point of view. There is a personal point of view. There is a large point of view which the majority share. There is a small point of view which just a few share. But there is no right point of view. You are always right. You are always wrong. It just depends from which pole you are looked at. Advances in any field are b

Magic7 musicvideos October

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Another exformative magical and passionate music-video mix, featuring: Petra - Fun - P!nk - Nickelback - Maroon 5 - Kylie - Usher - Stooshe Via YouTube :