Organizational Change: How to Get There in 4 Steps

In today’s business world, organizations are in the midst of initiating change.  As the leader, your most important move is to create face-to-face engagement with key direct reports.  Making the very impersonal mistake of emails, creating a new brochure, designing Power Points and can send them out into the chaos and confusion – unescorted.  Since change is an engagement, and it’s interactive, you get to know four steps that will move change forward.

1. Create appealing events where people will want to get together to find out and discuss what you are doing.  Engage your team by ASKING them to get involved.

2. Be a good mentor or teacher. This means you can:

* Connect with your staff. Listen, learn and talk only about what your staff cares about – their job.
* RESPECT current political realities in your organization.  Be smart enough to speak, shut up, defer, and what to do to make sure you are not disregarded because you aren’t aware of those realities.
* Tell stories from your heart. People are get bored with facts and functionality. Passion, desire, authentic presence win people. If you can tell a good story, that will make people to be more and engaged. There’s plenty of time for facts, function, and other stuff — just integrate that into your story.
* Be courageous about facing the facts. If someone has facts incorrect, set the record straight. Be tactful, direct, and respectful.

At the core of every face-to-face event is truth. Leadership is about mentoring and knowing how to listen.  The greatest teachers/mentors know how to listen and tell great stories, and instinctively know how to draw people out and how to draw people in.

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Juanita Ramos Corum
Leadership & Team Mentor

Authenticity in the Workplace

What   is   meant  by   Authenticity?

What   is   Authenticity ?
*   Being   honest
*   Choosing how you wish to relate to others
*   Being accountable for your actions
*   Being open and vulnerable
*   Openly communicating needs, desires, moods, attitudes and feelings.

Why is authenticity important in the workplace?

C o m p a n y   S t a n d p o i n t

Today’s consumers now have unlimited resources and techniques to spot and expose the fake, unreal and scripted.  In 2010 the trend towards authenticity  will hit unauthentic companies where it hurts – the bottom line, and the companies striving for integrity in all areas will be valued and prized.  - T i m   P e t h i c k

C l i e n t s

*   As a client, have you ever been treated not authentic by an employee at a company?
*   How did this experience make you feel?

C o w o r k e r s

*   What experiences have you had with coworkers who were not authentic?
*   How did that make you feel?
*   How did that affect your work?

Why is being authentic important to you (at work)?

*  168 hours in a week

*  sleep 7 – 8 hours a night

*  100 hours of awake time and 45 hours of that is at work.

We spend almost all of our FUNCTIONAL TIME AT WORK around co-workers, clients, supervisors, etc…!

So, for those 45 hours a week are you being authentically you?

If not, who are you being?

And, at what cost?

O p e r a t i n g   A u t h e n t i c a l l y

*   Is it your responsibility to be authentic in all situations?
*   Where are you not being authentic?
*   whats the worst that can happen?
*   Whats the best that can happen?

Become your AUTHENTIC YOU TODAY at home, WORK and play!

Cheers – Dotti Durtschi – Strategic Marketing Consultant for United Women Consulting, LLC

10 Tips for Connecting through Networking for Business Sakes

Effective business networking is the linking together of individuals who, through trust and relationship building, become mutual advertisers for one another.

1. Keep in mind that networking is about being genuine and authentic, building trust, relationships, and seeing how you can help others and their businesses.

2. Ask yourself what are your goals and intentions for participating in networking meetings? You will then pick groups that will help you get what you are looking for. Some meetings are based more on learning, making contacts, and/or volunteering rather than on strictly making business connections.

3. Visit as many groups as possible that spark your interest. Notice the tone and attitude of the group. Do the people sound supportive of one another? Does the leadership appear competent? Are the participants professional and have legitement business? Many groups will allow you to visit one or two times before joining.

4. Hold volunteer positions in organizations. This is a great way to stay visible, create better alliances and give back to groups that have helped you.

5. Ask open-ended questions in networking conversations. This means questions that ask who, what, where, when, and how and not yes or no questions.  This style of questioning opens up the discussion and shows listeners that you are interested in them.  Remember to be an attentive listener.

6. Become known as a powerful resource for others. When you are known as a strong resource, people remember to turn to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, etc. This keeps you visible to other and also builds your status to an adviser position.

7. Have a clear understanding of what you do and why, for whom, and what makes you special or different from others doing the same thing. In order to get referrals, you must first have a clear understanding of what you do that you can easily articulate to others.  Always remember to come prepared with referrals for each business present.  This will encourage the other businesses and individuals to recipicate.

8. Be able to articulate what you are looking for and how others may help you. Too often people in conversations ask, “How may I help you?” and you freeze with no proactive answer.

9. Follow through quickly and efficiently on referrals you are given. When people give you referrals, call the referral(s) within 48 hours. Be patient by knowing that and your referrals will grow.

10. Call those you meet who may benefit from what you do and vice versa.  Also, call those companies, individuals and organizations you meet that could be a strategic alliance for shared advertising (you advertise them and they advertise you). Express that you enjoyed meeting them, and ask if you could get together and share ideas, go to coffee, lunch or have them over to dinner.  Long lasting relationships begin when we let who we are be seen.

Have a wonderfully productive day!

Cheers – Dotti Durtschi – Strategic Marketing Consultant for United Women Consulting, LLC

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