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Intentional Listening Creates a Healthy Dialogue for Organizational Change
Intentional Listening Creates a Healthy Dialogue for Organizational Change
By Chris Schmelzer
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Create Space for Unlearning to Enable Organizational Change
Create Space for Unlearning to Enable Organizational Change
By Chris Schmelzer
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Here's how you can successfully steer your team through organizational change.
Communication is critical during times of change. As a leader, when communicating information about change, work to share stories and tell narratives to connect with people emotionally, help them remember information and better understand the reason behind the change. Our brains are wired to look for patterns, and stories provide a clear narrative that is proven to help us better understand and retain information. Further our brains have evolved to create an emotional connection to stories which makes it easier for us to remember and connect with the information that is provided through them.
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Here's how you can embody the key traits of a resilient leader in today's competitive market.
Embracing change starts with a shift in mindset. Developing a ChangeMindset, can help you develop the capability to not only embrace change, but thrive during times of change. To develop a ChangeMindset the foundational step is heightening your awareness to your relationship with change. In other words, start to recognize the conditioned patterns and behaviors that show up for you during times of uncertainty. Recognizing your temperament of frame of mind for dealing with uncertainty and change, can lead you to seeing change as an invitation to innovate.
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Here's how you can stay informed about emerging trends and technologies as a future leader.
Experimentation is a great way to keep up with trends. The challenge though is our relationship with failure. In science, failed experiments are considered good data. In our organizations however, we fear failure, so experimentation is hard. If you want to apply the theory of 'experiment often' to keep up with trends you have reframe your relationship to failure. Even more so, you have to build an environment in your organizations where people feel and believe that failure is acceptable, failure creates good data, and most importantly failure is a sign of progress.
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Recently I’ve started practicing four activities that have allowed me to win back my time. The first, getting really clear on what I am not…
Recently I’ve started practicing four activities that have allowed me to win back my time. The first, getting really clear on what I am not…
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3 daily practices to unlock your ability to reprogram your brain for the future of work. Your ability to reprogram your brain is your way to…
3 daily practices to unlock your ability to reprogram your brain for the future of work. Your ability to reprogram your brain is your way to…
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Director Matt Shait and senior associate Emma (Guilfoil) Park co-authored an article for Utility Dive, published this morning! Read on for their…
Director Matt Shait and senior associate Emma (Guilfoil) Park co-authored an article for Utility Dive, published this morning! Read on for their…
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Experience & Education
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The ChangeMindset Co.
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Board Member
WMU Organizational Change Leadership
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Education
As an Advisory Board Member, I offer advice on the content and format of the OCL program and share my knowledge, critical thinking, and insight on market conditions in the field of Organizational Development and Change
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Summer Camp Counselor
US Sports Camps
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Children
I coach youth basketball for McCracken Basketball camps in the summer
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My top secret to being an effective change leader in the modern work world… One of the hardest roles you will have as a leader, is leading your own…
My top secret to being an effective change leader in the modern work world… One of the hardest roles you will have as a leader, is leading your own…
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Do you think your job is more intense than an NFL head coach? As a corporate professional, consultant, founder, or working parent it’s been lauded…
Do you think your job is more intense than an NFL head coach? As a corporate professional, consultant, founder, or working parent it’s been lauded…
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5 practices to overcome your limiting beliefs when dealing with uncertainty. Your limiting beliefs restrict you from doing something. Whether it…
5 practices to overcome your limiting beliefs when dealing with uncertainty. Your limiting beliefs restrict you from doing something. Whether it…
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Navigating organizational change can make you feel like ‘everything is a priority’. But when everything is a priority, by definition nothing is a…
Navigating organizational change can make you feel like ‘everything is a priority’. But when everything is a priority, by definition nothing is a…
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Vote for Dustin Leszcynski and his Early Career Team!
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Research on regulating uncertainty and its impact on effectiveness indicates that embracing this natural fear of the unknown can actually propel us…
Research on regulating uncertainty and its impact on effectiveness indicates that embracing this natural fear of the unknown can actually propel us…
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How do you assess your stakeholders when leading organizational change? Do you gather any data on your stakeholder’s ability to navigate…
How do you assess your stakeholders when leading organizational change? Do you gather any data on your stakeholder’s ability to navigate…
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Are you aware of how your limiting beliefs impact your ability to lead and navigate change? Limiting beliefs often create barriers that inhibit your…
Are you aware of how your limiting beliefs impact your ability to lead and navigate change? Limiting beliefs often create barriers that inhibit your…
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I’ve been practicing yoga at the same studio, for five years. The studio has experienced a lot of growth. It has been awesome to experience, but…
I’ve been practicing yoga at the same studio, for five years. The studio has experienced a lot of growth. It has been awesome to experience, but…
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Does your change plan have a line item in the gantt chart for "unlearning"? Often you fail to give yourself and your team, the space and grace…
Does your change plan have a line item in the gantt chart for "unlearning"? Often you fail to give yourself and your team, the space and grace…
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Looking to find clarity in the change and uncertainty you are navigating? Try this list of questions. When you navigate change, it is easy to make…
Looking to find clarity in the change and uncertainty you are navigating? Try this list of questions. When you navigate change, it is easy to make…
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