Change Management Leadership

Inside Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion, you’ll discover how a team brimming with different cultural backgrounds can create better innovation and ingenuity; the largest hurdles and how to overcome them; the true meaning behind the terms “microaggressions", “unconscious bias", “privilege", and “antiracism” and how these terms apply to your business, proven techniques that you can implement to bring about major change and inclusive leadership, and much more!

That’s what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade.

It's not news that globalization and ever-faster technological innovation have increased the pace of change exponentially. Existing change models were devised to deal with individual changes, one by one, but that's not a luxury leaders have any more. Bill Pasmore, senior vice president at the Center for Creative Leadership and a professor at Columbia University, offers a four-part model that will allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.

Outperforming leaders are not born; they’re made. They hold exceptionally high standards, are able to persevere through change and conflict, and have the ability to consistently get the best out of others in working toward a common, shared goal. Outperform for Leaders is backed by sound science and research, dispels the myths around leadership, and details on what transformational leaders do differently - and better - to raise the “game” of others.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on change in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Change affects every organization at some time. Without change, companies cannot grow and prosper...and this can lead to their demise. This eBook examines change in organizations. It examines the major challenges involved and discusses the best methods for implementation using simple explanation and workplace examples. It is written for easy comprehension at any level while providing the reader with valuable knowledge. If ...

Looking for new ideas? Need your teams to perform at a higher level? Want a healthy corporate culture? Follow along with these two dynamic authors (and narrators) as they take you through The Improv Mindset, one of the most engaging and powerful methods to getting individuals, teams, and organizations to step up, engage, and solve problems. Steeped in the world of improv comedy, this no-nonsense guide provides a window into the neuroscience behind creativity and new ways of thinking. Filled with exercises and activities, you'll be able immediately apply the lessons in this book.

Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to return to what's worked for us in the past. This book offers a straightforward process for rewiring ourselves and those we lead to be more change-capable.

The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute’s Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success.

Barely into her 20s, since chairing the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, Holly has been working with and learning from the heads of countries, companies and charities to help them disrupt what they do and change the world for the better. In her fearless and widely-researched manifesto, this innovative young thinker shows how it is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power to be an effective leader - in business and beyond.

Leading change is not about breaking things - it’s about using empathy to enrich the world. In Empathy for Change: How to Create an Understanding World, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society.

Cultivating resiliency in changing times takes skills, perspective, and wisdom. At its core, resilience is not just about "bounce-back" after adversity. It's about moving through change while maintaining grit, perseverance and (hopefully) good health. To regain a sense of peace with what is, even in chaotic times, we need to begin within. From Chaos to Calm: Leading Change from the Inside Out is a quiet call to wake up to our individual and collective role and responsibility in solving our most pressing 21st century problems by cultivating resiliency at the personal level first.

Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. We often fail because we fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?

This book offers listeners a practical framework for navigating life's inevitable turning points, thresholds and transitions—at work, at home and in between. Drawing upon more than a decade of research and work with established and emerging leaders across the globe, leadership consultant, Joan P. Ball invites you to reimagine your relationship with uncertainty and recognize the creative potential that exists in the messy middle between life's inevitable What Now? Moments and what comes next.

Making an impact is essential for leaders who want to create positive change and leave a legacy - a trendy thing to say, but a hard tenet to live by. LeaderImpact, a movement of professionals dedicated to inspiring one another in this quest, has worked with leaders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs for decades to facilitate life-changing results. Now, Braden Douglas discusses their philosophy for success in Becoming a Leader of Impact.

Every leader recognizes the importance of an effective communication strategy. But, how do you consistently succeed in telling the story of your brand or organization? It takes a model and a guidebook written by three authors who have spent decades learning the art and science of creating powerful stories for some of the world's best marketing organizations.

Traditionally, an entrepreneur develops a detailed plan, finds money to fund it, and then pursues it to its conclusion. But conditions can change drastically at any point - you can end up locked into a process based on now-obsolete assumptions. The lean startup is all about agility and flexibility. Its mantra is "build, measure, learn": create small, experimental initiatives, get real-world feedback on them quickly, and use that data to identify what works and discard what doesn't. And then test some more.

This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled by social technologies, where connections are leveraged to increase impact in effective ways that drive change for the betterment of our society and planet.

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Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is making a comeback and has made it to the top of the list of most adopted management tools among executives in leading global organizations. As we enter an unprecedented era of economic unpredictability, disruptive technologies, globalization, and fierce competition, companies are increasingly finding themselves in search of money to invest in new initiatives which have caused a resurgence in ZBB as a tool of choice among executives.

DEI work is getting a bad reputation. But that’s because it’s not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity. Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results.