Change Management and Expectations

When managing change, expectations are like communicating vessels between current insight and future risks. Negotiate well, knowing that every future has more risks than you can imagine.

Do Not (Intent to) Change What is Fixed And What Should Remain Fixed

If you are preparing a change you should first search for some specific elements in your company. They are easily to be found.

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?

The Smallest Intervention You Can Think Of

Change is amongst other things about intervention. Significant interventions provoke resistance. Think of another way. And you can stay close to what you learn at home.

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?

How to Know What You Know (3)

...In many situations we act without even knowing why we act the way we do...This is no longer desirable when your organization is changing too often...Knowledge Management is (amongst other aspects) about making the “private” knowledge “publicly” available...So that you can bridge the Knowledge Gap...But your organization was not used to this. Different teams applied different principles...And now what? How to address this new set of principles so that knowledge management is adopted in the primary process?

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?

Change Management And Participation

Related to the topic of problem-or-solution-oriented change is the topic of participation. But this issue of participation is more delicate than the previous one. This is about the amount of space for negotiation around the proposition. The proposition however is something that also needs time to ripe; or has there already been prepared one? Is the path to which the developments will lead already entered or is your organization gathered at a square and considering a next move: in any of the directions that are accessible from the square?

Differences Between Products And Services

What are some of the main differences between products and services? And when are these differences relevant?

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.

Managing Change: The Three Laws for Successful Transition

Today’s organizations are struggling with the fast pace of change. In spite of the massive amount of words that have been written on managing change, many organizations still seem to be going backwards. There are some simple yet powerful lessons to be learned from thought leaders of the past. See how you can apply one such lesson to kick-start your current change program.

Golden Rules of Problem Solving – A Great Tool to Help Dissolve Those Management Problems

1. As a manager do you feel isolated? 2. Do you experience problems, whether it be staffing, policy, communication etc on a regular basis with no one to discuss them with? 3. Do you have a thirst to meet with like minded individuals who are committed to finding solutions? 4. Is the glass half empty or half full? 5. Do you think every problem/issue has a unique and elegant solution?

Turnarounds: From the Oval Office to the Corner Office

The headlines recently have focused on how the replacement of President George W. Bush’s chief of staff may serve to salvage the President’s second term. His new chief of staff has set an agenda, made announcements and started lopping off heads, so to speak, in a very public way. This is not too different from what has happened at corporations during turnarounds. Whether looking at financial institutions, industrial companies, airlines, consumer goods companies or telecommunications giants, the visible dynamics are they same.