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Insights on leadership, organization development and personal transformation from Dr John J. Scherer and the SLC team.
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January – great time to review ‘the old’, face ‘the new’ and LET GO…
Even though any day of the year represents a potential beginning or fresh start, for many around the world, January 1 has become a new…
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A Deep Dive in the UN: The LDI in Service of Changing Leadership Culture
The LDI is being offered to selected leaders in the United Nations! Two of our most experienced Facilitators, Jean Ogilvie and Ingrid Richter both from…
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Rules of Thumb for Change Agents
The following aphorisms are not so much bits of advice as things to think about when you are being a change agent, whether in your…
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Creating and Leading a High-Performance, High-Commitment Organization
Creating and maintaining a high-performance high-commitment work team or organization may be the most important skill needed for successful managers and team leaders today. Why?…
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How to Become Wiser At Work. Part IV: Coming Home to Yourself
After writing Five Questions, a few people asked me ‘Why five questions? Why not five answers? How can an approach based around questions be of…
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Emotions in Leadership
Not long ago I was with the senior leadership team of a well-known international company in a three-day leadership development experience. They had come together…
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Your Job as Self-Expression
Going back to my roots again, let’s take a look at the Genesis creation story in the Biblical material. (I’ll be translating from the original…
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The Role of Chaos in Personal Transformation
As a change artist, whether I am working with individuals, groups or organizations, one approach is to figure out a way to get them to…
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Turning moments at work into lessons for life
Imagine two people going to work every day, side by side, having virtually the same things happening around them. One goes home, upset yet again,…
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