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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Culture

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a key growth strategy for many organizations: entering new marketplaces, acquiring new technologies, leveraging scale and size. Culture is acutely critical during times of notable change, such as M&A, which offers an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. However, when two organizations are brought together through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful the two cultures will remain precisely the same. According to research, 50% to 85%

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4 Emerging Leadership Styles

The pandemic has disrupted the world, and it has been "trial by fire" for many leaders. The crisis has served as a validation test for espoused corporate values. Unfortunately, too many leaders and organizations have not weathered the COVID validation test well. According to the , today's reality is that more than half of employees are anxious about long-term job stability. Even worse, only 38% of employees believe business is putting people before profits. The reason this is so concerning is th

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Our world has changed and the hybrid workplace with work-from-home opportunities has shifted in-person meetings and events to virtual. "Going to work" for many of us today has taken on a new meaning. Technology enables individuals and teams to work collaboratively remotely. There is no need to ask if we should use virtual coaching platforms. Instead, a better question is if quality coaching relationships can be developed through technology, and if so, what are the best approaches?

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How to Manage Workplace Stress

One emotion that defines the workplace today is stress. It can be productive, motivating leaders to innovate, or draining, leading to employee burnout. Given the increased complexity of decision-making in a crisis-driven workplace, leaders need to be proactive, or stress can harm well-being. A proven solution? Cultivating an attitude of gratitude reduces adverse workplace stress effects.

Why do you need a workplace stress reduction strategy?

Employees are stressed out. A global study of 14,800

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Succeeding as a leader in today’s chaotic cross-cultural global business environment requires foresight, cultural agility, and new approaches to talent management.

As a leader no matter your industry you will likely face three complex cross-cultural leadership challenges resulting from globalization, global population shifts, and global talent mobility:
• None Development of competent and confident intercultural professionals and leaders

In this article, we will discuss these challenges and mo

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Making Change Work: A Strengths-Based Approach

More than a few things have recently changed, and one thing that experts can agree on is that the world and workplace will remain turbulent in the future. We all will likely need to make some changes soon. Making change work is one of those life skills that are more important now than ever. This article introduces a positive, strength-based approach to change management (Appreciative Inquiry) that can bring new life to change initiatives.

Many people share a paradigm that most changes in the wo

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What is the Darkside of Personality?

Star Wars presents an epic struggle between the light and dark side of the force. This special-effects-laden movie saga produced over ten billion dollars of revenue for Disney. However, in the workplace, the made-for-movie behaviors of darkside personality traits are not the same. Darkside personality types are proven to increase costly counterproductive work behaviors, such as sabotage, bullying, sexual harassment, fraud, employee theft, and absenteeism. In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda tells L

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How to Lead by Example in a Hybrid Work Environment

The reality of a hybrid workforce with geographically dispersed employees is not going away. The modern hybrid workplace includes a combination of time spent in the office and working remotely. The pandemic has touched every part of our lives and has dramatically changed the way people work and the workplace. Even though many of us crave the return of in-person social connections in the office, many of us have become accustomed to the flexibility that comes with a work-from-home environment. Ret

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How Executive Leaders Build Trust

In the fast-paced digital workplace, building trust is increasingly challenging and vital for executive leadership teams. Trust takes place between two people and must be earned. The events of this past year have only made the challenge of building trust more critical and more challenging for executive leaders. The recent study involving 28 countries and over 33,000 respondents revealed that the global pandemic, economic crisis, and social justice concerns have sped up the decline in trust globa

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

The world needs leaders that aspire to create a better tomorrow. Just as no one is perfect, no organization is perfect, and no organizational culture is perfect. Organizations, like all other natural systems, over time head toward a state of randomness. Stated another way, if leaders are not continually investing in making organizations better, the organization will constantly decline. It is not about changing but about survival. There are many different definitions for leadership, but many woul