3D Group Blog
Building a Strong Succession Plan During the Pandemic
By Anne Whiting, Senior Consultant The continuing and unprecedented impact of Covid-19 on the workplace puts companies’ leadership and HR practices in the spotlight, especially successes (and failures) in succession planning. An alarming number of businesses are...
Building Team Spirit on Remote Teams
By Anne Whiting, Senior Consultant Many of us have not seen our teammates in real life for more than six months now. The novelty of working from home on a full time basis has worn off and our initial enthusiasm for Zoom happy hours has evaporated after being on camera...
Does Leadership Change When the Team is Remote?
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. Leading any team under any circumstance is not easy. But when the entire team is remote, leaders face a host of challenges. So, when a leader has zero face time with her team, what changes? It is good to keep in mind that a lot of things...
Leaders Need Feedback Now More Than Ever
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. and Sarita Upadhyay 2020 will likely provide the toughest test any leader will face in their career. Sudden change in work methods, rapidly shifting supply chains and staffing, uncertainty in the regulatory environment, and the hard whiplash of...
Culture Change…its got to Start Somewhere
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. I recently wrote that the words “Black Lives Matter” were important for us all to share but that words alone were not enough to change police culture. I suggested that to change the police culture that is fueling racist behaviors, leaders...
Words Alone Are Not Enough to End Racist Police Violence: Leaders Need to Change the Culture.
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D. While I am no expert in race relations, community organizing, or political science, I do know a lot about leadership and organizational culture. Cultural norms are driven by leaders and they pervade every social system in every form....
Not As Easy As It Looks – How I Adjusted to Remote
By Anne Whiting, Senior Consultant If you are like me, you have crossed the line from working remotely as a matter of convenience to doing it full-time due to COVID-19. In fact, according to a new report from MIT, 34 percent of Americans who previously commuted to...
Leading in Limbo – Not Nearly as Fun as the Dance…
[avatar user="Charles Gerhold" size="thumbnail" align="left" link="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesgerholdlinkedin/" target="_blank" /] By Charles Gerhold, M.A., Senior Consultant My wife and I, like so many people, are working from home. We’ve...
Like Everything Else, The Rules of Leadership Change in a Crisis
By Dale S. Rose, Ph.D, President It is never lonelier at the top than when all hell breaks loose. Certainty is gone. Methods of work have all changed overnight. Financial resources suddenly become scarce. Leaders’ mis-steps have extremely dire...
Effective Teams Let the Best (Not the Loudest) Ideas Win
By Elna Moore Hall, Ph.D., Senior Consultant If you’ve been part of a project team, there’s a frequent dilemma you know all too well: how do you make sure the valuable input of some team members doesn’t get drowned out by the louder and more opinionated voices...