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If the circumstances are not to desperate this is a great technique. Sometimes our fears or jealousy is shallow and not founded in good concrete information. When people have the opportunity to work together they have this opportunity to see each other in a different light. It seems they open up because they realize they are more alike than different. This has worked other in areas as race, people with disabilities or religion. As a manager and leader you can facilitate this activity so each member experiences these similarities.

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Handling Workplace Stress

This is what makes a leaders job so enjoyable to be a problemsolver. People gravitate to leadership that doesn't back away from the challenges. It even helps reduce stress on the team when you can accept the responsibility. You become the mentor and leader of your team by your actions in a stressful environment.

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Identifying Difficult Interactions

Professional relationships for your employees are occassionally met with challenges. Each of us have our own personality traits and our co-workers may not a have the same conducive personality. This type of diversity in the workplace is a positive. But to manage it is sometimes a challenge and also an opportunity. Through conflict we have the chance to better understand each other and grow from the experience. Conflict in the workplace cannot be ignored. Your best action is to identify the players who are in conflict and be ready to meet with them individually to understand the issue. Over 80%… >>>

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Crisis Management

It is important to consider all system critical operations. After identifying your system critical functions you need to identify what type of hazards could be potential business stoppers. Now you. Begin to make plans of actions. Be specific with your action plans.

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Preparing for a Meeting

What do you think is the hardest task in preparing for a meeting with your staff or colleagues? How do you accomplish this task?

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Is the Meeting Progressing?

What experiences have you encountered when meetings progressed as scheduled? What went right? When meetings went awry? What went wrong?

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Dealing with Difficult Interactions

It is always benificial to satisfy your conflicts at the local level. Good policies for extended conflicts is a must. A process outlined is the best measure to alliviate tension of not knowing the next step.

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Obstacles to Change!

Obstacles to change are not usually an entire workforce. It is often from lack of knowledge of the rationale for change and how the team of employees can be part to the ownership in the change. Sometimes you will have a minority group who will be negative to the change no matter what you do. These can become saboteur to the process.It is important to stay positive with the process and keep all need to know stakeholders fully aware of all steps and process rationale.

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The Change Process in an Organization

It is important to have both your internal and external stakeholders on board with the changes. As a company you need to make sure your changes are in tune with the mission with the company. It may be you will need to revisit the mission to make adjustments before the changes are announced. Questions you would ask as a leader is: Does the mission match the changes? Why change the mission? What do your customers want? Communicate the values of change and why. Employee ownership is essential to the implementation of the new program.

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Change Agent or Change Blocker?

Sometimes making sense with change is the hardest challenge. Many business and management experts such as Drucker explained change as necessary. Change is fulfilling our mission. During change we may need to revisit the mission of the company to make sure we are parallel with our actions of change. Questions to ask during change are: What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer want? How does this affect us both externally and internally? Change should only for improvement purposes.