The System Always Wins
Just beyond the org chart of authority and decision-making is what keeps it all in place; the systems of communication, trust, information flow and rewards.
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Change
3 Points of Entry for Organizational Change
An organization’s culture is created from beliefs. These beliefs are formed through daily behaviors and the responses to these behaviors. And the behaviors are typically driven by the systems embedded in the organization. So when change is desired, there are 3 points of entry to begin the transformation, each with pros and cons. Systems ->
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?
I’ve been privy to a few conversations lately around organizational “social” behaviors and tools. Most of this has come through people in leadership roles reflecting on their organizations and the work they do. One, a Dean at Syracuse University, expressed that the students “were already doing these things” (PKM, network building, etc) and a corporate
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Preparing Leaders to Support Post-Training is Treating Symptoms and Ignoring the Disease
I came a cross this article from 2016 as it was shared recently in my network, One Minute, One Question: How Well Does L&D Prepare Leaders to Support Staff Post-Training? I had a few questions initially about this piece such as who were the 159 survey respondents? And how come two questions appear to ask
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The Unintended Consequences of 70:20:10
I’ve always struggled with the 70:20:10 principle. Not that it exists, and certainly not that it isn’t something that should be supported by organizations. No, my issue has always been with the idea that it’s primarily about learning. The 70 and the 20 (+/-90%) are simply about pulling; pulling information for work, pulling insights out
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