What are the new rules for communication at work?
1. Get off my cloud! Boundaries are real
2. Give up the need to control others
3. Outrageous mutuality
4. Stop talking [and other activities] into the wind
5. Be real to get real
6. Be like them
7. Be transparent, not defensive
8. No Whining, No Blaming
9. Use a light touch
10. Give to Get
11. Be Your Word and honor commitments
12. Respect time
The Sustainability Leaders Forum connects you to a network of sustainability professionals, to focus on your specific business challenges. Groups of sustainability professionals meet by conference call once a week for a facilitated conversation to address each others’ needs.
Creating lasting change has serious challenges and pitfalls. However, you don’t have to be blind to where those pitfalls lie, and an organization can learn how to skillfully navigate around them. This article reviews the eight common errors that cause organizations to fail at change initiatives, put forth by John Kotter in his landmark book Leading Change.
In our workshops, we emphasize the skills of participatory management and collaborative leadership. With collaborative approaches – in contrast with one-way, autocratic or dictatorial – leaders at all levels use an inclusive style that balances assertiveness (focus on goal or task achievement) with gaining cooperation and commitment (flexibility and consideration in relating to [...]
This article series outlines a process for shifting away from the need to control and into guiding, organizing and structuring work so that the desired results are obtained with less effort and more reliably in the long-run.
Part 1: Letting Go Into Structure
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