Deploy Action Plans Managers to Leaders Although the words may sometimes be used interchangeably, a manager is not always a leader. Work Effects focuses on making this shift to ensure sustainable change. Some managers have a natural investment in quality leadership, others couldn’t be paid to attend a leadership seminar, and the majority…
Lasting Change Comes First In most corporate-wide change initiatives, people form functional committees to change the policies and procedures, which often fail. Sustainability is missing from these action plans, so changes can just be made to the new policy again next week. Work Effects takes a holistic approach that ensures everyone is on the same…
DISCOVER ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Creating a Unified Voice Senior leaders, try as they may, do not have eyes and ears in every department or team. This means what a leader may identify as a priority for transformation, or as an effective leader, team members may not agree. This leads to strategies and processes that may…
DEFINE STRATEGY CULTURE ALIGNMENT Culture Drives Performance Senior leaders often focus on strategy and the processes to get to those strategies. However, the plans tend to look better on paper than in practice, once you run into the molasses of culture stopping momentum in its tracks. At Work Effects, we often hear leaders say…
In many organizations, making the decision to implement a 360 program is easy. Once the decision has been made, however, it doesn’t take long for organizations to become overwhelmed by the myriad of options facing them. The purpose of this document is to cover key information for planning the implementation of a 360 program. …
Creating Constructive Conflict Resolution Based on research of over 6,000 actual workplace conflicts, Conflict Lens discovered that behavior centered on conflict can be measured and described through ten dimensions. To effectively manage conflict situations, people must become aware of their reactions to conflict and learn methods for achieving constructive outcomes. The assessment of…
Trust is at the heart of employee engagement, productivity, creativity and sustainable business as a whole. When employees feel they can trust their organization and their leaders, it’s easier for them to also feel aligned to the company’s mission, its products and their work. Building and maintaining trust starts with leaders. Leaders who aren’t…
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Change isn’t easy for any organization or industry, especially during times of recovery. Yet, the international banking community’s new rules surrounding incentive-based compensation, called for banks to adapt quickly. As a result, large financial institutions faced extra hurdles and time crunches, and Material Risk Takers (MRTs) were greatly impacted. These inidividuals who have the…
Follow-up Effectiveness Study After both parts of this study were completed, the results showed that a huge majority of leaders (95%) were now perceived as responding to their direct reports and/or doing at least a “little follow-up.” More than half of the leaders (55%) did “consistent” follow-up and approximately a third (31%) did frequent…