The Surprising Gift of Resistance

The Surprising Gift of Resistance

“Why am I getting all this pushback on our new organizational change?” Have you had to ask yourself this question? You’re not alone in doing so, unfortunately. Because change work is hard! It upsets the status quo. It disrupts established relationships. It challenges secure identities. It’s also hard because it asks people to accept something […]

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Use Team Charters to set a team up for success

“A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” Katzenbach and Smith (2015) The Wisdom of Teams I find this such a helpful description of a team! It is simple, clear, and explicit about what distinguishes

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From Overwhelmed to Focused

From Overwhelmed to Focused – Three Questions to Energize You

In today’s fast-paced world, leadership isn’t simply about decision-making and delegation; it’s also about guiding teams through the uncertainty and complexity that characterizes our work environments.  Picture this… You’re a leader in your organization, responsible for steering your team towards its goals. Each day brings a new set of challenges and a new list of

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Preparing Your Organization for Growth

Preparing Your Organization for Growth

Do you want your organization to grow and improve? What sort of growth are you looking for? After all, growth can be quantitative, like increased revenue, or qualitative, like improved efficiency and productivity. However, growth won’t just happen on its own. The right conditions need to be in place before it will happen. Many necessary

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Adaptive Leadership

The Levers for Sustaining Change: Adaptive Leadership

This newsletter series has introduced the RCA Levers for Sustaining Change, a framework consisting of five interlocking elements that enable and support the momentum for change in teams and organizations, as well as ‘sustaining’ the resulting benefits. Earlier newsletters have introduced the first four elements: Effective Teams, Capable People, Empowering Culture, andHybrid Mastery (Click each element

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The Levers for Sustaining Change: Hybrid Mastery

The last few years have seen a transformation for organizations worldwide – the explosion of remote and hybrid work.  Looking into 2024, it’s clear that hybrid work has become the default mode of engagement for many companies. While some have embraced fully remote work, others have settled into a mix of in-office and remote days.

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Why This is Essential for Sustaining Change

The Levers for Sustaining Change: Empowering Culture

  What one thing might pose the greatest risk to your change initiative? What one thing, if oriented in the desired direction, can serve as a lubricant that supports and enables the other elements of the RCA Levers for Sustaining Change to interact in ways that propel forward momentum? In this newsletter series, we are

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The Levers for Sustaining Change Capable People

The Levers for Sustaining Change: Capable People

How do you create and sustain change? What enables all the constituent elements of change to stay connected with one another, interacting in ways that maintain and sustain forward momentum? In our previous newsletter, we introduced the RCA Levers for Sustaining Change as a way of looking at five interlocking elements that will keep you

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The Levers for Sustaining Change: Effective Teams

How do you create and sustain change? What enables all the constituent elements of change to stay connected with one another, interacting in ways that maintain and sustain forward momentum? “It’s working like a well-oiled machine” is a compliment. And it’s a compliment because it recognizes that this is not a given and cannot be

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