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How to Change Bad Norms or Behaviors of your Team?
Anneke Zwart, Student (University), Netherlands, Moderator
I read an interesting article about changing bad norms or behavior. Suppose you're appointed as a new manager of a team that isn’t working hard enough or that is otherwise behaving in an objectionable, reprehensible way. Grenny (2017) provides some suggestions and/or steps to change bad behaviors/norms of your team effectively and with minimal resistance:
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Interest & Engagement
Kunal A Bhat, Consultant, India, Member I have been there. Practically, what worked for me was some introspection:
1. GOAL - What was my goal - to change behaviors or to improve product...  |
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Address the Heart of Issue First
srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member To me any change initiative requires first to ADDRESS THE HEART OF THE ISSUE (read Values). If there's a conflict then it hinders change. For example ... |
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Analyze the Past to Change for the Future
Dr.Abu-Gieseisa, Consultant, Sudan, Member We have to collect learned hard lessons when we found ourselves following bad habits. That's why our team needs to analyze the past performance of th... |
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What Got Us Here in the First Place?
Vincent Miholic, Manager, United States, Member Amen on "Live it" and paraphrased, "I knew what?... Before I took this job?" What got us to norms and behaviors?
That's usually an easy question ... |
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Map-out a Process Flow to Change Wrong Behavior
Salieu Bojang, Student (University), United States, Member Since "how" is representative of a process, then it's correct to say Grenny's 6 Step approach makes sense as it follows a normal problem identi... |
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Explain the Aim and Add an Element of Competition
Doaa Saayed, Student (University), Lebanon, Member As a teacher and lab assistant the best way is to explain in details the aim of the work and its importance in addition to encouraging the team, in a ... |
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Dismantling Corruption in Public Administrations
Misbah Mokaddem, Management Consultant, Lebanon, Member When corruption has become the NORM in a public organization, and when it has become VALUED and even considered as a ‘SMART BEHAVIOR’ then a change fr... |
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Are the Bad Behaviors of a Team Actually True?
Henry, Accountant, Jamaica, Member My department is currently merging with another, we also have two bosses, one on the outside and the other is new. At first, the acting boss was engag... |
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Changing Bad Norms in your Team
Naveed khalid, Accountant, Pakistan, Member - On #2 (Establish Support): If we have collected feedback then we don't always need to establish support. If we were getting positive comments, suppo... |
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The Behavior Has to 'Want to Change'
John Henry, Manager, United States, Member So if someone has a paycheck, and is doing nothing significant but complaining, they have a personal victory, they get something for nothing. So to co... |
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Nudge Theory Summary
Dr.Abu-Gieseisa, Consultant, Sudan, Member Nudge theory (aka nudge) is a concept in behavioural science, political theory and economics that aims to influence the motives, incentives and decisi... |
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Organisational Change
Omondi, Manager, Kenya, Member Change is driven by power and influence to align people to a cause (good or bad).
Organizations are political systems with networks controlled by... |
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Nudge Theory Summary
Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada, Premium Member In 2008 Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein co-authored the ground-breaking book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness.
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