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- Play Nice or Get Fat - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2020 from Ian GlickmanAmazon’s Jeff Bezos, who’s had some success in his little California book store, recently said that if you double the amount of experiments you do each year you’re going to double your inventiveness. How often do we think of experimenting with our own thoughts, feelings and behaviors? Take, for ...
Views: 655 - Three Techniques to Improve Communication, Empathy and Setting an Example. - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2020 from Ian GlickmanLast year I was teaching my Organizational Dynamics class. It was a large class of adults with years of business experience. While discussing the verisimilitude of change management, the class listed thirty factors for effective change management. We took these thirty factors and did a lazy ...
Views: 673 - The Type A Solution - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanCONFLICT RESOLUTION 6 The Type-A Solution Measure twice, cut once. -Old saying- Two well-respected authors in the field of conflict resolution, Susan Carpenter and W.J.D. Kennedy, have eloquently codified the types of mistakes people make in large-scale public disputes. A mistake I often ...
Views: 852 - The BATNA Analysis - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanCONFLICT RESOLUTION: THE BATNA ANALYSIS (#13) In their best selling book Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury talk about the shared interests of negotiating parties. A report in LikedIn Influencers highlights Virgin Airline's founder and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson ...
Views: 738 - Occupational Stress 12: Burnout - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanLet’s talk about burnout. Burnout, in addition to being a cool descriptor for a killer day at the office, is actually a psychological disorder from the interpersonal class of occupational stressors. But, instead of stemming from butting heads with your boss or frustration with “the system,” ...
Views: 1076 - Change Management 11: Certain Misery or the Misery of Uncertainty - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanSmall changes can lead to big changes. We don’t need a treatise on Chaos Theory to observe that changing systems are nonlinear. Each variable in the change environment exponentially affects the outcome. For example, a simple three-variable closed environment will yield 6 permutations, while 6 ...
Views: 902 - Conflict Resolution 10: Arguments and Verbal Aggression - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanIt may not come as much of a surprise to learn that some people enjoy arguments. They look forward to them and literally get health benefits from the experience. This is a fact. Others, however, do not like to argue. For these people, an argument is an unpleasant and unhealthy experience, one ...
Views: 4796 - Leadership 9: Who You Are and What You Can Become. - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanProfessor Marie McIntyre of Georgia’s Institute of Government has researched the relationship between managers and personality. Her findings confirmed my own experiences as a psychologist and a consultant, and probably will confirm yours as well. Managerial types are more analytical then ...
Views: 856 - Occupational Stress 8 Your Mind, Your Body And Job Stress. - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanA few years ago I was asked to give a lecture at Princeton University. The students wanted to know what stressors to expect from their initial experiences in the working world and how these stressors would affect them. Although this was an academic presentation, I was surprised to see that their ...
Views: 1069 - Leadership 5: Theory X, Theory Y - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian Glickman"Know thyself" - Plato According to an American Society for Training and Development study, job knowledge is the only thing that ranks higher than communication in determining good leadership. One of the most important ways a leader communicates to his or her group is by example and ...
Views: 7411(3 votes) - Occupational Stress 4: New Job, New Role, New Stress - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian Glickman“A beginning is a time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct” Frank Herbert, Dune New on the job or working with a new hire? The greatest job strain at such a time comes from the occupational stress domain referred to as Role Ambiguity, or the ...“A ...
Views: 1124 - Organizational Change Management 3: The Change Facilitator Leader - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanThere are three types of people in this world, those who can count and those who cannot. If you're in management long enough, you will eventually experience a significant change in your company. This is usually followed by an intense and often quite justified sense of betrayal by those most ...
Views: 1237 - Attitude Adjustments - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanAttitude might not exactly be everything when dealing with conflict management, but it sure plays a big part. The most productive attitude in addressing disputes, especially in the initial stages, is one of letting go of resentment toward the other party. Regardless of what events have ...
Views: 1046 - Facilitative Leadership - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2020 from Ian GlickmanFacilitative Leadership The days of the dominating, stand-alone charismatic leader are long gone. Given that today’s projects are often costly and complex, and that group members are talented, specialized, and expensive, the charismatic leader model is something to be avoided—it’s the business ...
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