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Change Management - Obama Style
In the end President Obama got what he wanted-significant change in health care legislation. What lessons can change managers in organizations learn from the year long battle between the Republicans and the Democrats over this issue? And what grade can we give the Obama administration for managing the process. John Kotter’s change model is a useful analysis tool for this job.
Career Development and Playing the Banjo
Three years ago I started taking banjo lessons. Don’t ask me why. I guess the idea of being totally unfashionable just appealed to me. I didn’t know what I was getting myself in for! My teacher just happened to be a former world champion banjo player, and although I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I played guitar pretty well, he soon cut me down to size.
Mentoring - It’s All Greek to Me!
Did you know the first mentor was Greek? It’s one of those funny things where a guy was a mentor and, by coincidence, his name was Mentor. King Odysseus (he was Greek too) asked his friend (named Mentor) to watch over his son while he went away to fight a war. Old Mentor was a wise, sober, and loyal fellow and did a great job influencing the young man for the good.
Watch out for the Talent Shortage Iceberg!
Sometimes in the midst of the current recession we forget that we have a looming talent shortage – and it will be here before we know it. You might even call it a looming Talent Shortage Iceberg! Take the shipping industry for example. Even as the rescission has reduced the volume of shipping in the last two years, shipping volume overall is up substantially compared to ten years ago. The number of tankers in the ocean, worldwide, rose 17% between 2001 and 2005 and container ships jumped by 30%. With this increase comes the need for talented deck and engineering officers-but the industry is already finding it hard to recruit qualified officers.

The French Open and Customer Service Training
Did you know that the word discussion comes from the Latin root “dis,” which means “apart,” and “quatere,” which means “to shake,” so the word discussion literally means: “to shake apart.” This, of course, is what we do to each other when we are having heated discussions! The word dialog, on the other hand, comes from the Greek root “dia,” which means “across,” and “legein,” which means to “speak” – literally “to speak across” (i.e. – to engage someone in a conversation by reaching across to them).

The “Not So Dirty” Five-letter Word: The Use of Power In Change Management
It turns out that power, when applied appropriately, is exactly what it takes to promote action and make transformation happen. But it needs to be the right type of power. In this article on change management, we review the types of power available to organizations, referred to as "Power Centers" and discuss how to best leverage them. Potential change agents tend to possess power, but some “power types” are better than others when it comes to selecting change agents.

What Is Your Organizational Value?
The latest data shows that the U.S. economy grew at just under a 2% annualized rate in the first half of 2011. Interestingly, statistics also bear out that the productivity of current workers is rising at about 2 percent a year. That means that a company can produce 2 percent more goods and/or services a year than the year before, even if it doesn't increase the number of people it employs. Perhaps it is because we have yet to see an economic recovery stick, but the pressure to increase productivity continues to grow. This phenomenon is really about losing entitled employees and keeping those that add value. You can see it happening at all levels of organizations, but what does this dynamic tell us about our changing work environments?
Lessons Learned from eCommerce
The growth and frequent failures of e-commerce ventures has served to write new chapters in the history of business and organization. Whether you were actively involved in these ventures or just watching interestedly, you are probably aware of the debates that occurred over more traditional rules of business models and emerging internet rules, in which speed and opportunity was key.

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Liberate your Time by Developing your Company Organization Chart
Your company’s organizational strategy is centred around the development and communication of your Organization Chart. The Organization Chart takes the form of a graphical representation of the positions in your company. The top Position in the company (i.e. CEO or General Manager) is placed at the top of the Organization Chart. The various layers of management and supporting Positions are then arranged under the relevant management Positions right down to the lowest levels of the Organization.

The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2006
In 1997, RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, organized the Microcredit Summit. The summit focused on catalyzing the international development community to recognize that scaling up microfinance was essential to reaching the Millennium Development Goals and creating a just world.

Introduction: Fiscal Dimensions of Sustainable Development
One of the challenges facing the international community is to achieve sustainable development. Sustainable development has three pillars— economic development, social development, and environmental protection.
Leadership Coaching Based On Organizational Values
Within a leadership development coaching process it is important to know and understand what the stated and actual organizational values are, so both the coach and the colleague can better understand how people fit or align themselves within the organization. A leadership coach needs to be sensitive to how things are actually done within the organization in which they are going to be coaching leaders and other key individuals.
Human Resources Buzz Words; are they all “Greek” to you?
Employee Engagement, Organization Effectiveness, Organization Development, Leadership Surveys, Employee Satisfaction Surveys……………
How to develop a learning organization?
Leadership, that encourages learning and teaching, that instills values like openness and courage, that celebrates ideas, that establishes a process way as culture, and that develops leaders at levels is essential for developing a learning organization. In order to build a learning organization, a sound leadership development process that starts at the top of the organization -at the board and CEO level – is necessary.
Remembering The Three W's Of Recruiting Board Members
The success of nonprofit organizations is contingent on many factors, including the recruitment and development of board members who are committed to helping the organization accomplish its mission. This article provides a tool for recruiting board members who are in the best position to aid the organization.

Organization Development Techniques
OD is short for Organization Development. This is not a new term. Behavioral scientists have been writing about Organization Development for over 30 years. The science has evolved into many different approaches all aimed at the same objective: to enable massive improvements in organizational performance through specific and planned interventions. I have been involved with dozens of OD efforts over the past decades. Some of these have resulted in the desired improvement. Some have not. Let’s review four major types of OD interventions (there are others, but they are usually variations or combinations of these four):

3 Basic Needs of a Healthy Organization
Someone shared an article with me by Raymond P. Rood entitled “How Then Should Organizations Live”. In the article Rood makes the point that every organization has three basic needs. They are growth, maintenance, and development. For an organization to thrive it must do all three well. Yesterday at our all day staff retreat we expanded our thoughts on these three needs as they relate to the life of our church and each individual area in which we serve.
Simply by Outsourcing your own Software Application Development, It can save you Cash and time Each
Software Application Development is normally a time consuming task and on top of need lot of financial commitment from an unique or a organization. There are always dilemmas if it would be successful software application or it won't? Every body or organization who ideas such software development thinks of all those components just before they get started placing their time and expense towards it. But in general if the software application development is outsourced, then it becomes a smooth and effortless method for either an individual or a organization. Because; simply by outsourcing software development you are only defining processes and objectives of software you are searching for while the rest is taken care simply by the outsourcing software development corporation.
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