Leadership

Dealing with the Conundrums of Managing

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Managing is full of conundrums, paradoxes, and predicaments. They are built into the management process itself — they are managing.
What all these words mean is that the problems of managing cannot be resolved or eliminated. But they can be faced, understood, and alleviated. That is the purpose of this CoachingOurselves topic.
In this topic you will:

Ten More Ways to Release Change

Is it time to change how you go about change? Organizations frequently embark on large-scale change endeavors when minimalist interventions may in fact help them quickly achieve their goals and at no added cost.
This topic presents ten such methods to release change within your organization. These methods will stimulate you to reframe how you approach change and provide you with new ways to intervene. Furthermore, by appreciating the dynamic nature of change, you will come to understand the profound impact your actions can have in your organization.

Ten Ways to Release Change

Is it time to change how you go about change? Organizations frequently embark on large-scale change endeavors when minimalist interventions may in fact help them quickly achieve their goals and at no added cost.

This topic presents ten such methods to release change within your organization. These methods will stimulate you to reframe how you approach change and provide you with new ways to intervene. Furthermore, by appreciating the dynamic nature of change, you will come to understand the profound impact your actions can have in your organization.

Changing Things: What and How

Frustrated with how things currently work within your organization? Overwhelmed with where to start and what exactly to do in order to bring about change? Most people approach change in a piecemeal manner, failing to achieve lasting impact. This topic provides you with frameworks of “change what?” and “change how?” in order to better do so. Whether you need to command dramatic change, engineer systematic change, or socialize organic change, you will develop a clearer idea as to what needs to be done within your organization, using what methods, and by what means.

Leading Change in Difficult Times

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When the economic times are tough, everyone in your organization feels intense pressure to be profitable and keep ahead of the competition. In times like these, management’s task is to motivate employees to maintain productivity and performance. But how can you ensure employees feel inspired and genuinely appreciated when the budget is being cut and people are uncertain about the future of their jobs?

This CoachingOurselves session explores simple yet powerful methods to guide organizations through the most challenging of times.

Understanding Stakeholders

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Stakeholder relationships are a fact of life for every manager and every organization. Managers need to take account of their stakeholders and deal with their differing, and sometimes competing, interests. The goal is to have relationships that support and sustain performance. Understanding stakeholders is one of the keys to developing effective relationships.

Visionary Management – The Art of Seeing First

We human beings have the habit of thinking first. We think and then we act. But something is missing here. Can we think and act before we see? This CoachingOurselves topic considers “Seeing First” by asking you to do something that you might not have done since you were in grade school: create a piece of art collaboratively, in order to see a key issue on which you are working. “Seeing First” fosters exploration and innovation when issues require creative solutions. *Through doing a piece of collaborative art you can become creators in visioning possibilities for a key strategic issue.

Political Games in Organizations

You may have noticed that people play politics in organizations. Not you of course - other people. Nevertheless, it is important to understand how they do it and why. In fact, it is important to know about the positive side of politics and what it can do to help an organization.

Global or Worldly?

We hear a great deal about being “global” these days but maybe we should question this! Not just those of us who travel the globe, but all of us. We all need to be more “worldly”. To be Worldly is to be worldly-wise, as it is sometimes called. This means: “experienced in life, sophisticated, practical.” Imagine companies like this! These discussions are designed to get you thinking about striking a balance between being global and being worldly.

Lessons from Machiavelli and Lao Tzu

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In this session, you will gain insight into leadership styles by extracting valuable lessons regarding power and empowerment from Eastern and Western classical literature. Two extreme models—autocratic, top down leadership and a more participatory, empowering leadership style—are vividly illustrated by, respectively, the political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and the ancient Chinese thinker, Lao Tzu.

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