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How to diagnose for change
Recently, with the relentless pace of work, the changing weather conditions, and inadequate sleep, I had caught a cold. In recovering from the cold I started wondering more about the whole life cycle of sickness and wellness. Could it be that we can leverage from...
How to prove the value of change management
Thanks to the growing frequency and magnitude of organizational changes the change management profession have been undergoing growth. However, some organizations are still struggling with understanding the value of change management. Subsequently, some change...
How to undergo and manage change using Buddhist principles
I recently visited my brother and his family in Queensland near the North Eastern tip of Australia. Other than enjoying the nice beaches and tropical surroundings I spend some time with my 2 nephews. One of them is still in secondary school participating in various...
Five ways to use soft power to influence your initiative stakeholders
In business literature having senior leader sponsorship and buy-in is always highlighted as one of the most if not the most important factor in determining successful initiative outcome. It is touted that without senior leaders to drive the initiative, it is...
How to drive change positively
A lot of change management approaches are based on viewing change as negative and how to manage this negative experience. The super popular Kubler-Ross model was used to explain the grieving process and later became adopted as a change model. Kubler-Ross developed...
To successfully implement a strategy, consult your … change manager
Most seasoned executives will agree that implementing a strategy can be a lot more complex and challenging than the formulation of the strategy. If you read articles on strategy implementation you will find a myriad of factors to keep focused on including resourcing,...
What you didn’t know about managing change as an ethical obligation
A lot of organizations think of change management as something that can be outsourced to change managers or project managers. In this view, a piece of change can be managed as a project so that the rest of the business can focus on its business-as-usual activities....
5 things Eames taught me about agile project delivery
Recently I was reading about the creative process of Ray and Charles Eames, the couple who epitomized modern furniture design in the 1940s-60s. I was immediately struck by how many agile concepts were championed by Eames all those years ago. What we now know to be the...
Landing multiple changes – ACMP conference slides
These are slides from the presentation to the ACMP (Association of Change Management Professionals) Conference in Las Vegas. The change analogy was used to help change professionals explain the various components and facets of managing a portfolio of change...
How to manage multiple change initiatives
There is now plenty of research and articles on change management out there. However, most of these are focused on driving a singular change. How many organisations can you think of that are just driving one singular change initiative? Exactly. Particularly when an...
Is our approach toward change in Australia all wrong?
"A recent survey by the Change Management Institute (Employment Study) in 2015 indicated that 77% of all Change Management roles in Australia are contract roles. Are you surprised by this figure? Would you have expected this figure to be lower or higher? And why is it...