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Webinar: Lead and Inspire from Anywhere.
October 01/2020 - 12:00pm EDT

The Work-From-Anywhere world is here to stay, and it is not a technology challenge, but a leadership one.

Please join us for Lead and Inspire from Anywhere as we explore why so many leaders have been unable to effectively transfer their leadership skills into the on-line world.

Lead Better
Join this webinar to learn what you need to do now to flex your leadership style and create teams who are connected, motivated, and driven to give their best. Things are never going to be the way they were pre-covid so adapt and become the best leader you can be.

• Create a sense of belonging
• Inspire your teams
• Build a deep sense of human connection
• Have fun
• And much more

"...As Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum said, “Talentism, is the new capitalism.”  In this digital era, people count more than ever.  So, understanding how to use human factors asa tool matters to you, your company and your success..."

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Cynical Questions from Steve StantonSincere Answers from Frank Wander

Q. In today’s era of rampant automation, why should a smart CEO care about employee engagement? Many of these folks may soon be gone. Shouldn’t CEOs be planning for robotic engagement?

The way engagement works today, I don't think they should care about engagement! The engagement industry has been a failure. I don’t know of any company that became great because they used an annual engagement assessment and then told their managers to look at the results and make things better...

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‍Oh, culture change is hard…

And it takes a very long time…

And we don’t agree on what culture actually is…

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And besides, share holders don’t really care about culture, only quarterly profits matter to them.

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On and on it goes. The complaints about culture never seem to end.  Like the weather, everyone talks about it,yet few do anything real about it. But the truth is you don’t need a weather manto change culture.  It’s been done many times before.  And quickly.  But the key to changing culture lies not in addressing behavior itself, but with aggressively changing the basic organizational model it self; because this Enables the emotional experience...

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Go back in time and imagine that you meet two medieval stonemasons hacking away at several boulders. You ask the first, “What are you doing?” and he answers, “I’m chipping some marble.” You then ask the second the same question, but he answers, “I’m building a cathedral.”

That’s the essence and power of purpose. It’s much bigger than self-interest. When deployed correctly, a powerful purpose can drive high performance and emotionally connect employees with their organization...

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You Can’t Have One Without the Other

The Case for Whole-Brained Change

Co-Authored by Steve Stanton and Frank Wander

No matter what sector you’re in, today’s environment is challenging. We’re all experiencing the terrible trifecta of turbulence, acceleration, and uncertainty. As a result, all organizations are struggling to figure out how to survive and prosper in our rapidly digitizing world.

Being Human at Work

"Companies are becoming aware that their People matter most in the Age of Everything Digital."

Blog post by Steve Plante

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"Agile organizations can move quickly and easily. They embed agile behavior into their way of working spanning the value creation system. Agile behavior is woven into the fabric of their culture..."

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“When all is said and done, more is said than done” – Lou Holtz.

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Organizational Drag | It not only impacts human productivity @ work. It has a debilitating effect on the “human spirit” as well!

"The Power of Meaning"

"...we have innate needs for safety, belonging, purpose, and growth..."
by Steve Plante

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"Seeding, Nurturing and Sustaining Vibrant Program Cultures"

by Steve Plante.

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"...An organization’s CULTURE shapes it’s direction, growth, and prosperity..."

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People matter most in the digital age

"...More and more, organizations are realizing that People matter most in the digital age as the true source of organizational agility and prosperity..."

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"We must re-humanize work; we must strive to understand our workers as well as our computers and networks; we must reengage our talent, and launch a productivity revolution; we must embrace our people; we must do it now."

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"Emotional safety is a prerequisite for unlocking and optimizing human contribution, connection, and collaboration in the workplace.

Without it, you get individual compliance, nothing more, and it comes at a high price.

People will give as much as they need to, to survive while looking for other opportunities, you guessed it, to survive.

Emotional safety is a prerequisite for unlocking and optimizing human contribution, connection, and collaboration in the workplace..."

By Steve Plante

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When was the last time you showed sincere gratitude at work?

"When People express gratitude for one another we feel valued for what we do. They made a difference for someone..."

By Steve Plante

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Our CulturallyFit Merger solution gives you the capability to methodically unite two company cultures across the pre-merger, integration and post-integration phases of the merger process.

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Human employees need to be both augmented and engaged. Only augmented employees, who have been trained to exploit new technology, and to analyze real-time data can provide real value to their organizations.

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Human employees need to be both augmented and engaged. Only augmented employees, who have been trained to exploit new technology, and to analyze real-time data can provide real value to their organizations.

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Acceptance is all about accepting every individual for who they are because we are all different.

We look different, act differently, solve problems differently, find different things funny, show our emotions differently, believe in different things, learn differently, and have different aptitudes.

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“Every behavior that we do, we do to reduce uncertainty. We do it to increase certainty.

Our brains are geared to make fast decisions based on assumptions (confirmation bias), questioning them in many cases quite literally equates to death...”
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By Steve Plante

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“... There are many types of connections each one representing higher levels of caring and concern.

These include warmth, kindness, sympathy, empathy, compassion, and ultimately nurturing.

They are best understood as different forms of warmth, from the most basic, “I care about you”, to the strongest, nurturing..."

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“...More and more, organizations are realizing that People matter most in the digital age as the true source of organizational agility and prosperity. It’s a paradox, isn’t it?

In the digital age People (Humans) matter most. Machines cannot replicate human creativity and collaboration bringing new ideas and capabilities to life and speeding them to market.

Shaping a culture where People thrive unleashing their productive capacity individually and collectively (as a Community) is the key...”

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Seven Things Digital Transformation Leaders Must Do Now.

“... As organizations add new technologies, they typically face a stark choice - automate the work or augment the worker.

On one hand, automation simply eliminates the worker. On the other, augmentation keeps the worker but requires enhancing both their capabilities and motivations...”

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