Managing in Times of Change

24 Tools for Managers Individuals, and Teams

Michael D. Maginn - Collection Professional Engineering

54 pages, parution le 10/01/2005

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Résumé

While change is essential to your organization's survival, it can also breed instability, stress, and even anger in your workforce. Managing in Times of Change shows you how to help managers and employees understand the benefits of change and flourish within their new environment and responsibilities. Twenty-four workplace-proven leadership lessons and tools provide you with a uniquely personal look at the impact of organizational change, detailing strategies to

Communicate and personify the benefits of change
Isolate and clarify areas of impact
Paint a consistent picture of the current change
Measure and celebrate progress
Get team members involved
Empathize without always agreeing

Employees required to change how, where, and with whom they work can have difficulty seeing the benefits of a new situation. Managing in Times of Change provides straight talk and actionable advice that will help managers, teams, and individuals understand and implement workplace change in order to strengthen themselves and the organization.

L'auteur - Michael D. Maginn

Michael D. Maginn, Ed.D., (Hamilton, MA) is President and CEO of Singularity group, a leadership, sales, and management consultancy in Hamilton Massachusetts. He is the author of Making Teams Work and Effective Teamwork.

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Personally re focusing for managers: Understand how change affects you
- Understand the "from-to"
- Choose a productive response
- Seek the opportunity
- Gather your assets and resources
- Forge personal goals
- Walk the talk
- Make friends with ambiguity
Lead the team through: How adaptable is your team?
- Paint a picture of what is happening
- Build new rules for a new game
- Remember what is still important
- Improvise, adapt, adjust
- Measure and celebrate progress
- Hold the team accountable
- Squash the rumor mill
- Get team members involved
- Reward the team for progress
Show a path to individuals: Help people get unstuck
- Understand natural reactions to change
- Customize help for struggling individuals
- Offer empathy
- Actively surface dissatisfaction
- Pinpoint the positives for individuals
- Tailor positive tasks for individuals
- Encourage individuals to let go of the past
- Stand up for people if they are right

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Michael D. Maginn
Collection	Professional Engineering
Parution	10/01/2005
Nb. de pages	54
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	155g
Intérieur	2 couleurs
EAN13	9780071449113
ISBN13	978-0-07-144911-3