by Patti Blackstaffe | Nov 6, 2018 | Business, Change Initiatives, Change Management, Culture, Innovation, Team, Training, Transformation
In ‘Frustration in your IT dept. – Part 1’, we introduced the new reality where IT is the foundation for your business and noted the emotional responses occurring within IT departments whose structures have not evolved to that awareness. Let’s begin building...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 5, 2018 | Change Management, Leadership, Team, Transformation
Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom by Paul Sean Hill Review by Patti Blackstaffe If you read one book in 2018*, please read this one, especially if you have a leadership position and are tasked with leading change! Mission Control Challenges Are...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Dec 12, 2015 | Conflict, Engagement, Leadership, Team
Have you ever shared something out loud and it came out in such a way that you offended someone, but were not aware of the horrible impact you had? I have, and it was not until I began noticing that I was being “put in my place” over and over again, or when word...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 17, 2015 | Business, Leadership, Team
I have a friend who was in the military and one evening over dinner he and his wife were discussing their training for an upcoming lengthy backpacking trip where the wife was slowly increasing weight by adding 10lb bags of sugar each week in order to build up to the...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Sep 10, 2013 | Business, Change Management, Coaching Skills, Communication, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Team, Training
How does organizational change occur? Change occurs because people, just like you and me, made the decision to change. How that decision came about may be different for each individual involved; the motivator, influence or even traumatic event that may occur and spur...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 29, 2013 | Communication, Conflict, Culture, Leadership, Management, Team
“We find … it’s much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.” ~Amory Lovins If you want to know more about why people do or don’t change, then ask more questions. When working...
