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		<title>By: Toby Elwin</title>
		<link>http://www.tobyelwin.com/organizations-dont-change-people-change/comment-page-1/#comment-100</link>
		<dc:creator>Toby Elwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Soft skills, tangible versus intangible, hard skills - so many views of what is &quot;important&quot; and what is noise.  If we, and I know you are, involved in organization development interventions, we really need to know our audience, need to know what spectrum of comfort they analyze, process, and count on to make sense of their world.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At times we push the envelop to try to bring in perspectives or to move the conversation to another place, but it is our job to get into the personality of the organization or sponsor and translate into their language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for case studies?  They are valuable, but I find with so many people looking to identify themselves as unique, many case studies run the risk of:  &quot;well that is their issue, not our issue&quot;; &quot;that does not sound like us&quot;; or the classic &quot;but we are different&quot;.  Case studies run the risk of getting too personalized as to become esoteric or too specific.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I try to suppress my client experiences, this blog is my therapy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joking aside, it would take me some time to sanitize the work I&#039;ve done to protect the innocent; you can see who I have worked for at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amajorc.com/about-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; About Us&lt;/a&gt;.  No need to name names, just an amalgam.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me the industry is irrelevant, because all organizations are made of people and all people have a bias, agenda, filter, perspective, and motivation, so I try to capture the state all organizations must navigate.  I hope to impart a place for people to say to themselves, &quot;geez, I better look into that, seems that is important&quot;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could write for law enforcement, intelligence community, manufacturing, biopharm, health care, education, retail, professional services, or just write about those soft skills that all people, projects, managers, and leaders need to account for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for your visit Ernest, I&#039;d love to hear about some of the work you are doing:  a project manager with an master&#039;s in OD, working at one of the nation&#039;s leading hospitals is a whole kettle of interesting dynamics.   Consider my site your forum for anything you can share with us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toby</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Soft skills, tangible versus intangible, hard skills &#8211; so many views of what is &#8220;important&#8221; and what is noise.  If we, and I know you are, involved in organization development interventions, we really need to know our audience, need to know what spectrum of comfort they analyze, process, and count on to make sense of their world.  </p>
<p>At times we push the envelop to try to bring in perspectives or to move the conversation to another place, but it is our job to get into the personality of the organization or sponsor and translate into their language.</p>
<p>As for case studies?  They are valuable, but I find with so many people looking to identify themselves as unique, many case studies run the risk of:  &#8220;well that is their issue, not our issue&#8221;; &#8220;that does not sound like us&#8221;; or the classic &#8220;but we are different&#8221;.  Case studies run the risk of getting too personalized as to become esoteric or too specific.</p>
<p>I try to suppress my client experiences, this blog is my therapy.</p>
<p>Joking aside, it would take me some time to sanitize the work I&#39;ve done to protect the innocent; you can see who I have worked for at <a href="http://www.amajorc.com/about-us" rel="nofollow"> About Us</a>.  No need to name names, just an amalgam.  </p>
<p>For me the industry is irrelevant, because all organizations are made of people and all people have a bias, agenda, filter, perspective, and motivation, so I try to capture the state all organizations must navigate.  I hope to impart a place for people to say to themselves, &#8220;geez, I better look into that, seems that is important&#8221;.  </p>
<p>I could write for law enforcement, intelligence community, manufacturing, biopharm, health care, education, retail, professional services, or just write about those soft skills that all people, projects, managers, and leaders need to account for.</p>
<p>Thanks for your visit Ernest, I&#39;d love to hear about some of the work you are doing:  a project manager with an master&#39;s in OD, working at one of the nation&#39;s leading hospitals is a whole kettle of interesting dynamics.   Consider my site your forum for anything you can share with us.</p>
<p>Thanks again,</p>
<p>Toby</p>
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		<title>By: ebyers</title>
		<link>http://www.tobyelwin.com/organizations-dont-change-people-change/comment-page-1/#comment-94</link>
		<dc:creator>ebyers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Post. It&#039;s clear to me that you know your stuff. Couldn&#039;t agree more with the thesis: Org. change is individual change - I suggest coupling your theory above with examples from your own experience and/or current events. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also I think there are key &#039;soft skills&#039; needed in organizations that would enhance the sustainment of flux..Soft skills around the big five personality traits  - conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Post. It&#39;s clear to me that you know your stuff. Couldn&#39;t agree more with the thesis: Org. change is individual change &#8211; I suggest coupling your theory above with examples from your own experience and/or current events. </p>
<p>Also I think there are key &#39;soft skills&#39; needed in organizations that would enhance the sustainment of flux..Soft skills around the big five personality traits  &#8211; conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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