Eclectic Change

5 Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop

I recently had the opportunity to working with a group of strong leaders who where struggling with the challenges of building a cohesive team.  It wasn't surprising to anyone when they got the report back from the online 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Assessment.  The results were low on four of the five dysfunctions.   Their organization systemically encouraged operating in silos and through the use of individual style assessments, it was clear that the individuals were not by nature ones who were i...

Thinking about Stakeholder Management

By: Deon Binneman An organization derives its reputation from its stakeholders. Therefore the perceptions that is created through the things stakeholders see, read, hear about or experience first hand. But what is a stakeholder? The word stakeholder means anyone that has a legal, moral or economic stake in an activity. Some stakeholders have more clout than others, but that is also changing. Ghandi was an activist. Today with the right tools, any one person can become an activist or a journalist...

Volunteer on your Vacation? Great idea but why can’t we find the same joy in our own work?

When the following Forbes article by Rebecca Ruiz "Eight Hot Spots For Volunteer Travel" arrived in my Outlook, I was intrigued. The teaser read: These trips will improve your cultural literacy and likely make you a better business leader. Could we be looking for something bigger than our daily lives and jobs? A Travelocity survey of 1,017 people in late 2007 found that 17.7% of respondents had previously taken a vacation with a volunteer or philanthropic component. Of those, trips with a foc...