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How to use conflict management processes to improve productivity…

conflict management

How does conflict management improve productivity? Many studies over the years have shown that conflict in the workplace often has a negative impact on productivity.  Previous studies have shown that interpersonal and inter-group (departments for example) conflict can frequently result in individuals or factions refusing to co-operate and withdrawing in subtle and often hidden ways […]

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The Ultimate Guide to Skills Development – Many Learning and Development ‘professionals’ don’t understand how to develop skills…

Skills development

The Ultimate Guide to Skills Development There is a bit more to skills development than just practice. This Oxford Review guide to developing skills in organisations will lead you through just about everything you need to know to become an ace at skills development. Following on from my last post two posts: Why many people’s […]

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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 6 – Self-organisation and self-development

self-organisation

Level 6: Self-organisation and self-development Level 1 – Formation Level 2 – Formalisation Level 3 – Integration Level 4 – Expansion Level 5 – Coordination   The distinctive features of the self-organisation and self-development level of organisational development, otherwise known as a holacracy, is characterised by: – a)    A reduction in central control and management. […]

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Levels of organisational development – Level 5

coordination

Following on from the previous posts about this new research, today I look at level 5 of the six levels of organisational development. Level five is the coordination level. Level 1 – Formation Level 2 – Formalisation Level 3 – Integration Level 4 – Expansion   Level 5: Coordination     As the organisation or […]

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Why many people’s idea about how we learn is just plain wrong

Levels of learning

Why the Levels of Learning are not saying what many think they are: The levels of learning are not and were never intended to be about ‘how’ we learn…  Many organisations, consultants, institutions and almost all Higher Education (University and Colleges) use Blooms Hierarchy or taxonomy of educational objectives (levels of learning) to describe the learning […]

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Levels of organisational development – Level 4

Expansion level

Level 4 of the 6 levels of organisational development is the expansion level of organisational development This post continues from: The Levels of Organisational Development- Level 1 or the Formation Stage,  Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development Levels of Organisational Development – Level 3  –  the integration stage of development […]

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At what point can you say you have learned something?

Learned

“I learned something today…” Did you really? Like really learned it? We often take the idea of learning and having learned for granted and frequently make a series of rather large and unquestioned assumptions about at what point we can actually say someone has learned something. The evaluation of learning in many organisations, including our universities […]

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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 3

integration

Level 3 of the 6 levels of organisational development is the integration stage of organisational development This post continues from: The Levels of Organisational Development- Level 1 or the Formation Stage, and  Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development In this post I look at Level 3 of the 6 stages […]

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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2

Formalisation stage

This post follows on from The Levels of Organisational Development. In that post I explored Level 1 or the Formation Stage of the six levels of organisational development. In this post I will look in a bit more detail at level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development:   Level 2: Formalisation Stage     The distinctive […]

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