Pounding Nails Or Building A Home?

As a leader, are you providing your team with a big picture as to how they contribute to the overall success of the organization?

Turn Your Team Into Top Performers

Most of us have known a few LOSERS in our career. Problems surface and we face challenges. Who are the ones we call losers? Where did they come from? How did we end up with them on our payroll? Who hired them?

Changing Organizations

Organizational change is always difficult because behavioral patterns must be completely rearranged. This aspect will result in a tendency to resist change. The question is: how and when do organizations change? In this article three theories of organizational change will be discussed.

What Do We Need To Change?

When we talk about managing change, what is the change that we are seeking to manage. Unless we are sure what it is and how to go about it then how can we ever hope to manage it?

Making Change Stick

Over 87% of organisational change programmes fail within 12 months of starting. This article examines the critical factors that can make the difference between success and failure.

The Change Checklist - Define The Impact

Is any change really about change, or could it be an improvement? Is the situation afterwards any different or is it more of the same. In either way, the impact can be very high. As we can see with the inauguration of a new terminal at the Barajas airport in Madrid. This article gives access to a simple change checklist previously described.

Apathy and Cynicism Zap Our Spirit

As the years slide by, a growing number of people don't really live, they merely exist – trapped in their lives of quiet desperation. Just getting by is as dangerous as resting in the snow on a frigid winter night; our passion and spirit dozes off and dies in our sleep.

Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Change Processes

Managers' behavior is the single most important variable in the success or failure of any organization's change or improvement effort. This starts with recognition that the organization is full of current or potential change champions.

Change By Switching Business Rituals

Every morning you wake up, eat and -– most days of the week -- you go to work. By that time you have already finished a set of daily habits. But at work, there are even more waiting for you; starting with the computer: Switch on. And then, what do you do next...

Change Management Checklist – Give Your Change Program a Quick Health Check

How is your change initiative going? Whether you are implementing a new local accounting system in your department or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project to determine areas for improvement.

How to Diminish Project Failures

Projects are widely used to implement changes. Yet the duration of a project is also a risk factor.

Organizations That Are Leading Change

All organizations deal in some way or the other with change... Many companies follow ow change that has been set in the market. A small group of companies or institutions deal with change in a different way; they are more in the lead of change. They could be pictured as change leaders.

Corporate Gift Ideas: What to do when Birthdays at Work Suck!

7 Habits of Highly Effective Birthday Rebels. Navigating the Birthday at Work minefield