Loichinger Advantage

Never Settle for What You See Today

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:43:13 +0000

Building Great Management Team - Today’s Key Points:

· You and your management team cannot change our current economic predicament.

· The single most important factor for leadership success is your mindset, followed by thoughtful actions.

· You need the very best from every member of your management team – every day.

Last month, I introduced the 9-Box tool and how you could begin to leverage its use. Today I’ll follow that up with an example of how you can better coach them to higher levels of performance.

The New Normal - Part 2

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:34:49 +0000

Last month I shared the thoughts of colleagues and friends as we shared conversation on the state of work, strategy and the state of our field - organizational development. A friend of mine posted his reaction, which was the company he was working for was ultimately focused on survival. This sounds similar to many of the organizations I’ve talked with in the past year.

Take-a-ways:

The chaos we find ourselves in is not your fault, and you have little control to change the current situation.

How you and your business come out of the recession has everything to do with your perspective and response.

The New Normal - Part 1

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:05:13 +0000

I had the pleasure of joining my colleagues - consultants, organization development & HR leaders - on a dialogue of the “new normal” in today’s organizations. It was fascinating!

Not only do I think it’s healthy for people to actually discuss topics like this, but to check the reality of where organizations really are. Some aspects are overblown, others are right on the mark, and still others are much further along than I would have expected.

The focus of our inquiry and observation was around the question: What organizational factors are driving organizational change, given the work we have engaged in over the last several years?