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Let’s Talk About Neurodiversity – Join Our Twitter Chat

Mind Tools Team Management

This starts with facilitating workplace adjustments, such as allowing more time for tasks, reorganizing workspaces (setting up quiet areas, for example, or providing noise-canceling headphones), and offering assistive technology. Workplaces that embrace neurodiversity allow employees to work and achieve goals in their own way.

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4 Steps to Better Navigate Change

LSA Global

Reorganize the business. You need to acknowledge that change can be difficult but that you and team managers will be available to support the change, deal with any issues that arise, and answer all questions. #2. Nothing seems to stay the same for long so we’d best get used to change and find better ways to deal with it.

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How to Keep Your Team Focused and Productive During Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

Whether it’s political turmoil or a reorganization at your company, employees who are concerned about their future are likely to be distracted and unproductive. What should a manager do? If you see people checking Twitter or gossiping about a reorganization during lunch breaks, you might invite them to go out for a walk instead.

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Cisco and a Cautionary Tale about Teams

Harvard Business Review

But rather than reorganize to move from a functional structure to solutions groups, or implement a matrix organization, Cisco created overlays on top of the same organization structure.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

In those instances, your challenge as a manager is to reorganize roles or rethink strategies to best achieve the goals at hand. If there’s one thing that new managers need to remember, it’s that over-communicating in the early days is preferable to the alternative. To me, that’s the indicator of a team culture, right?”

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How to Manage Your Former Peers

Harvard Business Review

After a significant reorganization, he was moved two levels up into a newly formed role, managing 40 people including ten of his former peers and the managers of those peers, including his former boss. Case study #2: Show authority through competence.

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How One Medical Group Is Decreasing Physician Burnout

Harvard Business Review

It also established a small outreach team (about four people) that uses large automated registries of patients to mail seasonal reminders (e.g., “it’s time for your flu vaccine shot”) and alerts about routine checkups (e.g., “you are due for a mammogram”) and handle other duties (e.g., million members.