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Perception and Reality of Corporate Culture Change

Have you ever been in charge or involved in a corporate culture change program? Then you might recognize the optimism at the start of such a program. Often, a very smart 3,4, or 5-step approach is presented to change the company’s culture from A to B! To avoid disappointment and increase…

11/05/16

How to enhance team collaboration - using Insights Discovery

Do you have several personalities and/or nationalities in your team? Do you feel that collaboration between these – in itself very capable – individuals is not always effective? Do you see misunderstandings and rivalry where there could be complementarity and high performance?…

02/04/16

“Be the leader you wish you had” by creating a Circle of Safety!

Is it standard practice in your organization for people to send out Email messages in carbon copy to their boss in order to cover their back? Do people keep a folder of all the good things they’ve done as proof of their accomplishments? In that case, the odds are high that they are trying…

18/03/16

Using Appreciative Inquiry to facilitate transformation

The article “Generative Process, Generative Outcome: The Transformational Potential of Appreciative Inquiry”[1] provides a helpful framework for how we consider and use Appreciative Inquiry in our work to support teams and organisations The key principle of the article is…

28/02/14

Leading in Complexity – Making sense of Matrix, Culture and Virtual Working

"It’s just too much, I cannot cope anymore’. David – a soft drinks Category Manager of a global Fortune 500 company - shared his thoughts openly. ‘How can I work with these diffuse new responsibilities and at the same time be expected to work with colleagues from different…