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"Learning Organizations, Work Flow and Information Technology" (pdf)
"Learning Organizations, Work Flow and Information Technology" (voice over browser version) |
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The leader of organizations often label themselves as learning organizations, without understanding how to manage work flow design and information technology implementation in order to acheive learning organizational effectiveness. Staged change is necesssary to ensure that learning does not overpower the innnative inability of human beings to dea effectivelyl with continuous change
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"Frameworks for Managing IT Project Risk" (pdf)
"Frameworks for Managing IT Project Risk" (voice over browser version) |
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IT project risk can be effectively estimated and managed. All it takes is a useful framework, the willingness to use it properly, and senior management determination to ensure that risk mitigation plans are in place for high risk project factors. At the same time, by assessing the likely impact of project failure on the business, energy can be appropriately distributed over the portfolio of current IT projects. |
"Enterprise Architecture in Large IT Organizations" (pdf)
"Enterprise Architecture In Large IT Organizations" (voice over browser version) |
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Large IT organizations often got lost in a power struggle between the Enterprise Architecture Group and the delivery project teams. It does not need to be so. |
"Power to the Edge -
a new approach to creating more agile organizations" |
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A Power Point deck which applies the Edge Organization ideas used by the Pentagon's Command and Control Research Program to frame the thinking about a major business transformation project. The Edge organization principles, in a military context, were explained in "Power to the Edge" by David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes (2003). Many of the Edge organization principles are helpful in the context of modern health care organizations. |
"The Reality of Enterprise Turnarounds" |
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A working draft of a white paper on the two roles crucial to successful enterprise turnarounds: turnaround leader and change sponsor. |
"Enterprise Turnarounds: A Sustainable, Staged Approach" |
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Enterprise level change is not simple. This framework allows individuals preparing for an enterprise turnaround to systematically plan a specific approach to their problem. |
"Effective Enterprise Leader Performance"
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Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey published Lead/Self, a self insight tool that has been used by millions of business professionals to get clear on their personal group leadership style, in the 1980s. Contingency leadership theory also applies at the enterprise level, although the conceptual framework needed to frame it requires insight into leadership competencies. (Originally prepared in MacDraw on a MacIntosh, before Power Point become the almost universal presentation tool.) |
"What's Wrong with Leadership Training
Anyway?" |
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Providing leadership training may not be the best way to spend scare
training dollars.
Published on the HR.com web site.
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"A Guide for 'Coachees': Things to Reflect On When Working with a
Personal Coach" |
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A guide for individuals working with a business coach. |
"A Manager's Short Primer on Resistance to Change in Organizations" |
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Every manager makes change of some kind, and every manager experiences
resistance to it. This primer provides some guidelines on ways
of responding to resistance.
Published in the OD Section on the HR.com web site.
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"The Widget Story: Changing Organizations and Working Relationships Using RAP Based Performance Appraisal” |
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Organizational transformation requires that the individuals in the organization change their mental models of their jobs. Performance management is a tool which can accomplish this. |
"One Manager Asks: What Kind of Training Makes Sense?"
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Every manager need to make wise training investment decisions. A checklist
of five questions can help.
Published on the Chief Learning Officer web site.
(CLO site at: http://www.clomedia.com/)
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"Faciliting Meetings" |
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Everyone attends meetings. We all "learn" most of our meeting participation and management skills "on the fly" through "on the job" attendance at meetings where we absorb things that seem to work (or not) from others. This book takes a structured approach to developing meeting participation and meeting management skills. (Work in progress.) |
Shorter articles on workplace psychology topics |
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"Technical Writing ... or Getting Paid to Write (Sometimes)" |
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In the June of 2005, Roelf give a presentation on Technical Writing at the Canadian Authors' Association Annual Conference.
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"Personal Professional Competencies" - WCI's PPC Program |
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A Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that explores the conceptual background to the development of the Personal Professional Competency program and the Competency Styles® tools. |
"Managing Pilot Projects"
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Describes how pilot projects are best structured and managed.
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"Handbook for New Members of Automation Project Steering Committees"
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Helps new members of automation steering committees understand their role. |
Roelf's Web Publications