Competency and Authorization Assessment
Here is your PDF of the Competency and Authorization Assessment featured in Change Tactics Tactic 50 – Assess Trust. Authorization-Tiers-Assessment_EFC
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Here is your PDF of the Competency and Authorization Assessment featured in Change Tactics Tactic 50 – Assess Trust. Authorization-Tiers-Assessment_EFC
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Here’s an example of a Relay Team Coordination Worksheet. This example highlights only a portion of the team that built the beyond accessible playground at Evergreen Rotary Park in Bremerton, Washington. It is offered here as a simple example that shows while many of us were part of the team throughout, we weren’t all running
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Responsibility is a unique concept… You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you… If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the
Middle Managers. That’s the most often given answer to the question, “Who most resists change in your organization?” It would be easy to go along with the crowd and turn middle managers into the villains of our change story, but something doesn’t seem right. It seems too easy to scapegoat them, individually and collectively. Instead,
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Conventionally powered change runs on the force of driving people. It takes years, has a high failure rate (sources vary in the actual %, but individual experience can attest that it fails more often than we’d like) and leaves you depleted of funds, morale, and good will. Unconventional change runs on driving change. It takes weeks
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As the 50th anniversary of the moon landing nears, my thoughts have been drifting past the moon, to Mars. In 1962, when President Kennedy challenged the United States to go to the moon he said, We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon…We choose to go to the Moon in
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Mother Teresa told a story of a man in Melbourne she visited who had been, it seemed, forgotten by the world and himself. She asked to clean his room for him because she saw it was in a terrible state. He reluctantly agreed. When she cleaned she found an old, beautiful, unlit lamp covered in
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In a Harvard Business Review blog post, Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan introduce us to the concept of a fast zebra: someone who, “can quickly absorb information, adapt to new challenges, and get people aligned in the right direction… They are the people who can skirt around or blast through the kind of gridlock found
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Sterling Whitehead just wrote a great blog post on not being too eager to move up in your career. He encourages us to enjoy where you are and be in the present in our current positions. This is an interesting topic. In my opinion, there are three factors that immediately come to mind on this
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If you want to succeed at driving change, practice drawing pictures. Specifically, practice drawing pictures of either what the future looks like or what the journey to the future looks like.”- April Mills (2011) So, you might ask, “how do I draw a picture of the future?” And Laurie actually did ask that very question.
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