Wanted: Strong Managers for Chaos at Work
TOUGH TIMES often define leaders. There is a big difference between managing and leading. Leaders provide direction, the road map for change and inspiration for even the most difficult journeys. The...
View ArticleStop Saying “Change”
“Change Management” is a necessary function with a terrible name. To most people, the word “change” itself is fraught with hidden meaning and personal interpretations that can be negative and that can...
View ArticleDistinguishing Benefits from Success Criteria
Whilst browsing the APMG-International Blog, we came across this post: When I started writing this blog, I thought it would be quite simple to set down the differences between the two and articulate...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Effective Ways to Sell Change
Change can scare a lot of people, but in today’s workplace – managing change is what keeps people relevant. Being held accountable for managing change and making things better in your work is the new...
View Article10 Theories – What’s your Change Assumption?
There seems to be a lot of disconnect in the way people view change which may have to do with the number of weird and wonderful theories people have about why change happens. Because we each have our...
View ArticleChange Management Needs to Change
As a recognised discipline, change management has been in existence for over half a century. Yet despite the huge investment that companies have made in tools, training, and thousands of books (over...
View ArticleWhat are the Top Drivers for Change?
In this continued uncertain time, many people are wondering what changes will have the greatest impact on their business. Based on research and conversations with thousands of corporate strategists...
View ArticlePeter Drucker Quote
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn”. Peter Drucker
View ArticleWhy Change Programs Don’t Produce Change
In the mid-1980′s, the new CEO of a major international bank (call it U.S. Financial) announced a company wide change effort. Deregulation was posing serious competitive challenges – challenges to...
View ArticleDealing with change – that’s hard to swallow
Don’t waste too much time trying to get people to believe in change. Sacrilege, I know. Let me explain. Recently, I spent time with a team that’s adjusting to a pretty big change. They’ve implemented a...
View ArticleHow to Change an Organization Without Blowing It Up
There is a middle ground between wholesale change and tentative pilot projects – and it could allow your organization to operate far more effectively. Too often, conventional approaches to...
View ArticleOrganisational Culture Change: Engineered Success
Organisational culture – or workplace culture as some would call it – is created when a group of people work together to achieve a common goal, or simply share a working environment. Employees, are the...
View Article8 Benefits of Change Management
The benefits of change management are associated with how its managed. So to answer this question you need to make some assumptions about how you manage change. To reap benefits you need manage change...
View ArticleWhat are the Benefits of Actively Managing Change?
In the ever-shifting world of business, change is inevitable and can come in many different varieties. Change can take the form of technological change, changes in employee credentials or changes in...
View ArticleChange Management – How to Make it Work and Deliver the Benefits
The western world-view of business can be somewhat simplistically summarised by the “3 P’s” – process, people and pounds sterling – a business climate where the “bottom line” is delivered by process –...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Managing Change in Organisations
Change management can be a challenge in any organisation. Managing change means getting the organisation to accept the change, understand the elements of change and then properly execute change....
View ArticleChange Management: Return on Investment
There are few studies about how much organisational change management (OCM) contributes to return on investment (ROI) of large projects. What we know, however, is that many change projects fail to meet...
View ArticleChange – Accept it or Else
This article by Jonena Relth provides us with a prompt to talk to our people (when change is occurring). Check out if they are accepting, adapting and adopting to the change. No matter what anybody...
View ArticlePwC CFO shares her views on Change Management
Carol Sawdye, the chief financial officer of U.S. accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is spending much of her first year on the job focused on change management. As the economy has stabilized since...
View ArticleHow to Engage New Talent to Ensure Success with Social Media
Check out this guest post for Abeo Verto by Amanda Marques, Director at PPS Works. Engaging new talent is a fine-tuned process. Let’s face it – you don’t want those precious candidates to leave you...
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