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Silo Busting and Team work in Times of Crisis!
Allow us to share with you a highlight from our recent research on consequences of Covid-19: “There is nothing like a crisis to clarify the mind. In volatile and different times, we must have a cohesive response to challenges. A real strategy is an overall approach based on a diagnosis of the challenge. The most […]
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Why 75% of transformation project fail featured in BENTREPRENEUR
A McKinsey’s report in Oct 2018 stated that, “Many companies arepursuing large scale change efforts to captureor simply to keep up with competitors.” The report goes on to say, “While our earlier research has found that fewer than one-third of organizational transformations succeed at improving a company’s performanceand sustaining those gains, the success rate of […]
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Are you trying to stay afloat and survive the storm?
Are you trying to stay afloat and survive the storm? Then focus on the Beacon! Of course, everyone is anxious at personal and professional level with the COVID-19 situation. Smart companies use times of crisis to identify their current business situation, evaluate options, and if needed restructure or even downsize the organization. What will you […]
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Are you ‘digging in’ the Crisis Management Mode?
‘In a dramatically changing business world, the ability to transform is fundamental to long-term survival’ Are you ‘digging in’ the Crisis Management Mode or planning the best way forward to a sustainable future? To help organizations evolving towards a resilient and higher performing organization, we coach teams in such areas as: Sense of Urgency and […]
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SteppingStone Global celebrate 10 years of successful presence in the GCC
At SteppingStone Global we celebrate 10 years of providing strategic management consulting, facilitating and business coaching for Saudi and Bahraini companies, working with clients on ensuring they have sustainable and successful futures as higher performing enterprises Our purpose is to improve clients’ leadership competencies and management capabilities by developing: Strategic Change Management Working with business-owners, […]
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Social-Capital and Group-Cultures and Successful Teams by Mike Orlov in Daily Tribune on April 28 2019
Why do some teams deliver exponentially better than other teams? Why are some teams greater than the sum of their parts? How can teams come-together and collaborate really well, acting like a single ant-colony or bee-hive? The answer lies in understanding social-capital and laying the groundwork for group-culture. Group-culture, or creating social-capital, has more to […]
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Workplace Happiness by Mike Orlov in Daily Tribune on April 21 2019
There is constant pressure to innovate and position products and services more creatively than ever before. Innovation and creativity are more likely to happen when employees are happy. Employees will not be happy if they have heightened states of on-going daily anxiety where they expect something awful to happen at any moment. Worse is when […]
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Makes Good Business Sense To Praise by Mike Orlov in Daily Tribune on April 14 2019
Smiling and consistent positivity really is contagious. Consistent-recognition of great performance encourages both the recipient of the recognition but also others searching to be noticed. Praise and appreciation costs nothing other than time and focus-on-people in the enterprise. Indeed, praise triggers dopamine, tickling the reward and pleasure centres of the brain; it contributes to innovative-thinking, […]
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Networking and Making Connections by Mike Orlov in Daily Tribune on April 7 2019
I have met people who have said they hated networking-events, adding they only go to such occasions because they felt it was required or demanded. Many if not most of us are ambivalent about networking. We know it is valuable to our professional success, yet we find it taxing and for some of us, even […]
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Managing By Objectives or by Dictat by Mike Orlov in Daily Tribune on March 31 2019
Managing-by-objectives is a much more effective leadership tool than a command-and-control dictatorial approach. Dictat invariably leads to micro-management, intrusive-chaos and demotivated employees who do not feel respected or trusted. But management-by-objectives is also very hard to implement for those of us who have been used to a command-and-control structure, where ‘…people will do as they […]