Organisational Change That Lasts

Attempts at improvement in most organisations do not lead to lasting change. Here's a change management process to alter all that.

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When the Trip Has Finished Starts the Hard Work

Do you recognize this; you have come back from a holiday, you get back to work and the same day at five o'clock (or the next day at four) you seem to have forgotten about your holiday. The energy and fine ideas that you brought back with you are fading away once you are behind your desk.

How's Your Head?

Right now, as you're reading this article, notice something. Do you have a headache? No? Did you notice that you didn't have a headache until I asked that question? Stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that you don't have a headache. Celebrate that your head feels good. Do you find that a little goofy? Yet it's usually only when our head hurts that we wish we'd remember what it feels like not to have a headache. Only when we feel lousy can we appreciate what it's like to feel well. That's not a lot different than the way we view our companies or organizations - or really, our lives. We don't really think much about the things that are going well until something happens to throw us off our game. At that point we need a quick fix so we can get back to taking the health of our bodies or our organizations for granted.

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Resistance to Change and How to Deal With It

Sometimes the best planned change initiatives meet with resistance. Opposition to change can railroad a project, leading to much wasted resources, recriminations and exhaustion for all parties. What drives resisters and how can you turn them into supporters before your program goes off the rails? Find out the ways that people resist and some tips on what you can do about it.

A New Vision of Leadership

Across the board in today’s society, people are demanding more involvement in the decisions that affect them. No longer do we find the blind acceptance of previously unchallenged authorities such as governments, institutions, or even workplace management. Whether leaders like it or not, today’s norm of rapid-fire, on-demand information transfer has set up a cultural expectation of choice, responsibility and freedom. These challenges call for a fundamental transformation of management style and culture.

How To Change The Unconscious Organizational Culture

Do you know what impact your organizational culture is having on the performance of your company? Did you know that the culture is based in deeply entrenched and often hidden beliefs that individuals bring in the door with them? If you want to change this read on.

How to Create and Sustain Optimal Performance Throughout Your Organization

There is a process with twenty steps that, if followed in your organization, will result in consistent optimal performance throughout your workforce. If you implement this process step by step, you’ll soon find that you are beating your sales, productivity and profitability goals and are exercising greater leverage of your organization’s human capital and skill sets toward steady enterprise growth.

Embrace Change: Business & Personal Renewal Cycles c 2006

The change process or growth cycle is really a cycle of renewal. Business change cycles co-exist with personal change cycles as leadership and employees go through the process together. Come learn about the process so that you learn to embrace change.

Managing Change: Perception is Reality

That change is a fact of life does little to mitigate people's usual reactions to it, namely fear, suspicion, and resistance. That's why it's critical to have a plan for communicating and managing during transition that takes into account that an individual's perception about events equals his or her reality. Whether you're managing change on a scale as grand as a company sale or as localized as a new department structure, here are some tips for smoothing the transition from what is to what is to be.

Ready or Not -- Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges of Change!

Unless you've had your head in the sand you realize that we are living in a changing world, a changing universe, a changing marketplace. Change is everywhere. You can't avoid change. You can't ignore change. You can't prevent change. You just have to live with it! And if you fight change you'll ultimately end up the loser. So how do you deal with change?

Leadership: What the Past Can Teach Us Today

When you look around the corporate landscape today, you see plenty of highly paid executives. These men and women are obviously all smart, hard working and powerful. But do they have the key leadership attributes of the greatest men and women in history?