Three Ways To Restore Optimism at Work

This post first appeared on Shawn Murphy’s wonderful blog at Achieved Strategies, as part of his Wake up and Shake it Up leadership series. I just loved it and had to share it here!  So I asked, and he graciously agreed. Shawn does change management consulting for expanding how organizations, leaders & employees

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Saying Goodbye, Part Two: Left Behind

Last week we explored the issue of leaving from the leader’s perspective, when it is precisely the leader who leaves. But what about those left behind in the organization? Filling the void and learning how to carry on after letting some valued colleagues or trusted leaders go can prove to be a lofty undertaking,

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Saying Goodbye, Part One: The Leader Leaving.

A great leader leaves his mark in everything he does. She is as powerful in leaving as she is in arriving. He can be felt in what others carry on after his departure. How are leaders and the people who have followed them experiencing parting? In organizations as in all of life, change is

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When NOT to give feedback?

What a question, right? In the context of organizations, feedback should be commonplace, well given and well received. Is it? Lately I have been working with some great companies that are still struggling with this issue. They may have in place 360 degree systems, periodical revisions and all sorts of institutional ways to tell

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