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SHIFT – Secrets of Positive Change for Organizations and Their Leaders

SHIFT the book
SHIFT: Secrets of Positive Change for Organizations and Their Leaders

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The work of creating change is simple. Most of us complicate it with our thoughts. This book offers a new approach to change, along with a new approach to quality. It undermines the conventional order that people have come to expect and encourages readers to step into a new way of thinking, which allows them to approach their situation with a larger viewpoint. It includes real situations from my work over the past 14 years with senior managers, executives and engineers in several industries. These include international high-tech firms, the automotive industry, the Canadian aerospace industry, health care in the United States and Canada, the media, family-owned businesses, the U.S. military, church boards and education. While the content in each industry is different, the process of bringing people together to create the changes they want and need is similar.

Use each chapter as a guide to expand your choices about leadership responses. Before long your peers and those who report directly to you will notice that there is something different about you. Your own manager will comment on your changes.

Open the book. It is time to begin.

Janice Calnan

Testimonials

“If you care about change, individual or group, you need to read this wonderful book. It takes the reader on an important journey to help us get ‘unstuck’. Few books I’ve read manage to describe that clear and compelling a journey.”

Kathleen Dannemiller, DTA, Whole-Scale™ Change
SHIFT: Secrets of Positive Change for Organizations and Their Leaders offers a new perspective on coping with the perceived disorder and chaos of today’s ever-changing workplace. By outlining a series of actions, through four major principles of change, SHIFT constitutes a “different approach” for leaders who must manage the human side of change. It offers simple steps to help leaders slow down, notice how they contribute to the work environment, and then move forward in a more meaningful, effective and personally rewarding manner.

Gail Baird, Publisher
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Contents

Letter to the reader

Introduction

Section I – Transforming the Organization »Shift is needed

1 Are you measuring the right things?
2 What is leadership anyway?
3 It takes real courage to call for help.
4 “Profound Knowledge” surpasses knowledge management.

Section II – Start Fully Where You Are and Tell Your Truth »Shift is about to happen

5 Courage is required! If you’re scared, you’re right on track.
6 Stop waiting! Now is the perfect moment.
7 You’re it! Look inside the box!
8 What’s really important here?

Section III – Acknowledge What’s Working »Shift is happening

9 We always have choices.
10 The best practices are close at hand. Quality is the outcome.
11 There is a gift in everything. Can you find it?
12 How can you measure the intangible?
13 What do you think?

Section IV – Ask for What You Want and Need »Shift happened

14 New techniques are more effective.
15 Remember where you’re going!
16 If you want it, you create it!
17 Partnering is where it’s at.

Section V – Step Aside and Notice What Is Changing »Shift continues to happen

18 Let go of your attachment to the outcome.
19 Silent time is valuable time.
20 Noticing tiny steps actually builds the culture.
21 Celebrate and celebrate.

Conclusion

Appendix Four

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