Manage the crisis or lead people through the crisis
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
by Shadi Abouzeid
Premise I am writing this blog during the corona virus pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to lead the efforts of supporting their citizens in both staying safe and treating those that are infected, while most businesses are ducking their heads in the sand to protect the troves of profits they made since the
- Published in Human-Centric Leading, Leadership Elegance, Team Culture
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effective leadership, Human-Centric Leading, Lead people, Leadership, There is another way
A Way to Humanize Onboarding Without Extra Work
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
by Eleni Pallas
Are you a leader who feels that there are better ways to lead and deal with team-oriented challenges yet not sure what they are? Have you experimented with new ideas or strategies and noticed that some worked and others didn’t? Yet it wasn’t clear why each worked or not? How about trying human-centric leading. It
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Human-Centric Leading, Leadership Development, onboarding, recruiting, team culture, team development, team leading
What happened with Human Resources
Thursday, 27 February 2020
by Shadi Abouzeid
What happened with Human Resources when they say they create a culture but they end up representing CFO and lawyers at the expense of employees? Historical Overview of Human Resources Human Resources started as mainly personnel department. They were tasked to track time and leaves, issue payroll, manage employees contracts and other administrative tasks to
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Problems = Unmet Needs
Thursday, 13 February 2020
by Eleni Pallas
Why doesn’t anyone teach us that problems are unmet needs? What Are We Taught to Do? We are socialized to see problems as bad or things to solve asap. This makes us either avoid problems or say things such as “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!”. This also makes us a bit scared
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conflict, disengagement, engagement, HCL, Human-Centric Leading, Leadership, team problems, unmet needs
Improve Your Team Culture with One Change – No More CJB
Monday, 06 January 2020
by Eleni Pallas
Improve your team culture with one important change — stop the use of CJB (criticisms, judgments and blame). Why Do We Use CJB? We have been socialized to use CJB to: make it clear what is right and wrong inform people of mistakes so they will not make them again identify inappropriate behavior create high-quality
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The Magnificent Compression Machine
Thursday, 14 November 2019
by Eleni Pallas
The magnificent compression machine illustrates the pressurized environment in which we work. Being aware of the specific pressures, we can change the ways we respond to them in order to affect positive transformation.
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Why do meetings tend to take longer rather than shorter?
Tuesday, 12 November 2019
by Shadi Abouzeid
Have you asked yourself why meetings tend to take longer rather than shorter. Let us discover the main reasons and how we can overcome them.
- Published in Consider Context, HCL Antidote, Human-Centric Leading
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BLAME, CRITICISM, Human-Centric Leading, humanity, JUDGEMENT, Lack of Trust, Leaders, Leadership, leadership for humans, meetings
Have you wondered why organizational and societal problems are persistent?
Thursday, 07 November 2019
by Shadi Abouzeid
Problems we face Below is a non exhaustive list of organizational and societal problems that we, as humans, have been faced with for centuries: conflict working in silos project delays corporations going bankrupt corporations doing what is not good for humans and or Nature racial issues equity gap gender gap generational gap And due to
- Published in Consider Context, Human-Centric Leading
What is Human-Centric Leading?
Wednesday, 06 November 2019
by Eleni Pallas
Human-centric leading is a mindset and toolkit that can be used as an antidote to the people-related problems we face in organizations and society.
- Published in HCL Antidote, HCL Toolkit, Human-Centric Leading, Team Culture