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Face The Music and Go Beyond the Business Blues
Summer 2007
The blues songwriting, where participants create and perform their own work-specific tunes, ups the ante a bit with the truth-telling, real world lyrics and the risk of performing them in front of peers and leaders.
To Plan or Not to Plan? Clients and experts talk about the AOP process
Winter 2007
As the way of doing business is changing, our clients are questioning their most basic assumptions. One of those assumptions is around this planning process.
The Musical Journey of the BPI Board
Winter 2007
The goal was to give the board members a world class, cutting edge experience with the expertise of thought leaders in leadership, talent & succession, performance management, and global change.
Face The Music and Go Beyond the Business Blues
Winter 2007
Do you wanna know what's really going on with your employees, clients or co-workers? Get 'em to write and sing the blues!
Singing the Innovation Blues
Fall 2006
Paul Kwiecinski noted that writing and singing "blues songs are not about whining and complaining (that's country!), but about expressing the truth of a situation."
Multi-Level Systemic Coaching
Fall 2006
"This multi-level coaching approach can have a profound systemic impact on the organization through combining the methodologies of coaching and organization development."
Is Coaching OD?
Summer 2006
When does an OD practitioner move from advising and facilitating an organization intervention to a process of inquiry and self-awareness?
Be Your Own Coach
Summer 2006
Even with coaching support, how can I provide a system and structure that facilitate "keeping on the rails" to my vision? To help, I've developed a self-evaluation tool designed to check in, measure progress, inform action, and help me stick to my plan.
Horses as Partners in Powerful Coaching
Summer 2006
Horses are sentient beings with the capacity for independent thinking, social relationships, individual dispositions as well as physical abilities and limitations.and they make excellent partners to create powerful coaching.
Horses as Partners in Powerful Coaching
Spring 2006
If you enlist a 1200-pound coaching partner for your next session, it's likely you'll achieve a remarkable change in the dynamic of the coaching relationship.
Golf, Leadership and Fun
Fall 2005
Wiedenbach Brown, one of MetaSystem's family of clients, brings its family of employees, vendors and customers to meet each other in person, and enjoy a day of golf.
The Change-Agent Blues
Spring 2000
Deaf Lemon isn't singing about the troubles back in his native Dublin, or about rain that won't stop falling, or even about some woman who done him wrong. He's singing about life in the new world of work.
The One Team Hotel
November 1999
Do you feel that you go from department to department "fixing" things one after another in an effort to provide consistent quality for your guests? Is there a better way of operating? Definitely.
5 Myths of Employee Turnover
April 1999
Turnover is about lack of motivation. In the hotel industry, entry-level positions pay about the same in most organizations. So money is not the motivator here. Something else has to be present for people to want to work for your organization.
Holographic Diagnosis
1997
There are many ways to learn about an organization. You could interview organizational members, conduct a survey, review records and plan s and reports. You would learn a lot from all this activity, in a linear, traditional way. But there are other approaches to organizational knowledge.
Using Holographics
Winter 1997
...no one in the company seemed certain who was "really" the boss. As a result, decision-making was either impossible or ineffective. Organizational goals were not being met...

Reinventing Sofitel
April 1997
John Lehodey wasn't asking for much - just the fundamental reinvention of Sofitel North America's way of doing business.

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