Video of 3-days of design thinking, team building and leadership work with over 200 SUNY Buffalo State College students. Growth Mindset and Taking Actions on Behavior Change: Students will reflect on current behaviors and gain feedback from others (extrospection) on which behaviors are helpful and hurtful to academic success. Students will articulate and develop a small action … Continued
After spending a week in Vancouver, BC, Canada, attending the Cynefin Retreat on organization design for emergence, I was moved to learn new ideas, leave some outdated concepts behind, and reinforce our progress together. This made me think: How can you create more resilience to ideas and innovation within organizations? Using an ecological viewpoint of … Continued
At any given moment all of us, whether in work, personal relationships, or anywhere else in life, are Rote Copying, Surface Understanding, and Personally Mastering many things and many times at many levels.
In earlier posts, I shared some steps for identifying the problem using creative problem-solving through exploring the current condition selecting a type of problem, Problem-solving is systematic and organized into six stages: Identify the problem Select the type of problem Apply the analytical tools Define a specific problem Apply solutions tools Compile ideas and implement solutions Step … Continued
The more straightforward and understandable the tool or process within organization development, the more likely it will make a difference. The simpler the tool, the greater the requirement of the consultant or expert to suppress themselves and their expertise. When you remove the translator (the expert) from the results and ask people to gather narrative … Continued
“I do not believe that change needs a robust and compelling vision because I do not think that most change efforts have an idea of the endpoint or view until they get there. Also, when you have that clarity of vision it is no longer a change effort it is a project to accomplish someone’s … Continued
“Workplace complexity dwells in set(s) of options about what is possible rather than a set of options about what is probable.” – Simple Habits for Complex Times. Sitting with a senior management team, we talked about how to understand and prepare the company to work through workplace complexity and Change; one of the managers said, “I … Continued
image credit Project Stakeholder Plan Having a project stakeholder plan ensures that you will approach the influence part of your project with as much organization and attention as possible. Time invested early in stakeholder planning can save you countless hours of dealing with resistance, redoing work, missing targets, etc. WHAT TO DO: Use the worksheet … Continued
Are leaders’ motivations different than others? No, they are not. The term ‘leader’ is another way to say a helpful person when you need help. I had this discussion in Buffalo, NY, with a series of workshops focused on leadership. Above is a picture of the chalkboard at the end of a seminar called “What … Continued
I shared an Organization Development Case Study and outcomes with the Organization Development Network of Western New York. At the end of the workshop, a friend asked, “What did you, as a consultant, learn from your experience with this client?”… Below is my best effort to share what I learned from working with a challenging … Continued