Change approach

Beyond the Survey: A Strategic Lens on Change Readiness Assessment

Change readiness is one of the most critical, yet often misunderstood, concepts in change management. For many practitioners, it’s been reduced to a...

Leveraging Clinical Psychology in Change Management: A Synergistic Approach

Change management and clinical psychology, while seemingly distinct disciplines, share a foundational principle: both are focused on people and...

How to Improve Change Adoption: A Practical Guide for Change Practitioners

Change adoption is the heart of every change practitioner’s work. It’s the primary measure of whether a change initiative truly succeeds, yet,...

Why ‘Release on Demand’ is the Hidden Key to Agile Success (and How Change Management Can Drive It)

In the world of scaled agile, “Release on Demand” is a concept that has profound implications for agile teams and their project approaches. It...

Using Change Data to Maximise Business Results Through These 4 Systems Thinking Principles

Change management practitioners are often tasked with ensuring that transitions are smooth and successful. However, to truly excel in this role,...

The One Under-Emphasized Skill for Successful Change Managers

Change managers are not just facilitators of change transition; they are strategic partners who must understand and navigate complex organisational...

How to measure change adoption

Measuring change adoption is one of the most important parts of the work of change practitioners. It is the ultimate ‘proof’ of whether...

Peeling the onion: This analogy can transform your change management outcome

Change management, much like peeling an onion, involves uncovering multiple layers before reaching the core. Each layer peeled back in the journey...

Rethinking change management analogy – why “the light at the end of the tunnel” falls short

When navigating the complexities of organizational change, leaders often rely on analogies to communicate the journey and keep their teams...

To improve your change management outcome don’t fail fast

Central to many contemporary approaches to agile change management is the concept of "failing fast." This idea, popularized by agile methodology,...

The meaning of managing change

Is change management just a job or a career? When you clock in and clock out everyday do you ever wonder what is the purpose of all this work? Yes,...

Navigating the Winds of Change: A Glimpse into the Future of Change Management in 2024

As the global landscape continues to evolve, so too does the field of change management. The year 2024 promises a shift in the way organizations...

Change Practitioner Q&A Series: Annah Kaspar

In this Change Practitioner Q&A series, we talk to change managers to ask them how they approach their work. This time we are talking to Annah...

Change Practitioner Q&A Series: Fiona Johnson

In this Change Practitioner Q&A series we talk to change managers to ask them how they approach their work. This time we are talking to Fiona...

How to avoid Performance dip during the change process according to research

One of the most feared aspect of change by organisations is its impact on performance. There is a wide variety of change which can determine the...

The resistance to change that we can all relate to

Change is an inevitable part of, not just corporate life, but life in general. It's a natural occurrence that we all must face at some point. But...

Four Chinese New Year customs you can adopt to improve your change outcome

It is the year of rabbit in the Chinese New Year of 2023. A quarter of the world’s population celebrates this. It is also the first...

Most change strategies are tactics. Here’s how to do it better.

Creating a change management strategy is one of the most important pieces of work for the change management practitioner. Done well, it...

How to be more strategic in managing change – Infographic

Most change practitioners are hired to support an initiative whilst others are supporting the business. Irrespective of the role, there are ways to...

How change management software can improve change outcomes

It used to be that change management is the ‘poor’, neglected cousin of other disciplines in terms of access to functional software to assist in its...

4 common assumptions about change saturation that are misleading

Change saturation is a common term used by change practitioners to describe a picture where there may be too many changes being implemented at the...

How to be more strategic in managing change

Being more strategic in managing change is about being more focused on those aspects of driving change that will create the most value for the...

The change and disruption in Ukraine show how complex and dynamic the change process can be

Assessing the change process and conducting effective change impact assessment are critical tasks for the change manager. The reason is...

As a change manager how do I improve my company’s agility

It is 2022 and a year ago most of us were praying for the end of Covid so that we can move back to ‘normal’. One year on, here we are again. Covid...

How to implement change process when your business is not change mature

Often we hear change practitioners call out the challenges of working with organisations that are not change mature. Yes it is easier for...

The Ultimate Guide to Data (vs. methodology) Driven Change Approach

Most change practitioners follow a standard change approach. For the past 20 years popular change management content have focused mainly...

Data-driven change environment (infographic)

Data is king. This is especially in current times of uncertainty. With data comes power, influence and outcomes. Lots of disciplines have leveraged...

The one approach every initiative should incorporate post-Covid

The past 1.5 years has been super challenging for most organisations. The constant stop and start interruptions of Covid has taken a toll...

Behavioural science approach to managing change

Adopting a behavioural science approach to managing change means leveraging scientific research about human behaviours and using this to better...

Aversion to loss – Knowing how this works can prevent change resistance

Research on aversion to loss can explain why people don't want to change. I spoke with senior fellow, anthropologist and ex-Inteller Tony Salvador....

User onboarding is a process

Traditionally in change management, there are key 'events' that we pin our change strategy on when it comes to getting users to use a new system....

User-centric view of change impact

Change practitioners usually classify different change impacts into people, process, technology and customer. Then, there is a great effort and...

Why you shouldn’t always follow a change management process

On Google,, the 2nd most searched term in change management is ‘change management process’. Users are keen to understand a standard formula that...

Infographic – Gamification for change delivery

Are you looking for quick practical ways to gamify change delivery to improve engagement? Thanks to Covid we can no longer rely on traditional ways...

10 ways you can easily gamify your change interventions and get immediate results

Gamification is the application of game elements to non-game activities. Whilst gamification has been around for a long time, it is only...

Positive or negative change

https://youtu.be/sCSt11ZerhQ Check out our video that explains whether it makes sense to rate changes as positive or negative.

New vs. old change management models

A lot of popular change management models are old models, many of which have been shown by research to have limited efficacy in the business world....

How To Improve Change Management Outcome Success? One LEGO brick at a time!

Change Management outcome is the holy grail, and virtually all organisations are undergoing change. Now more than ever, companies are challenged...

Change Deliverables Structure

Eventually, each change deliverable contributes to the next, resulting in a detailed change plan. The change plan is a culmination of a detailed understanding.

Demonstrating the value of change management through behaviour realisation

Many parts of the world are starting to brace for economic down turn. The Wall Street Journal and lots of publications talk of recession for the US....

Project change planning for post-Covid

Whilst organisations plan return to office approach and the overall aftermath that is Covid on the business, here is an infographic on key project...

Returning from the lockdown – What you need to plan for as a change practitioner

Most of us are still in lockdown or partial lockdown with Covid. At the same time, many countries are in the process of lifting restrictions...

Managing change during coronavirus

The world is now watching and experiencing an emerging coronavirus pandemic. There is widespread anticipation and fear in many parts of the...

Build your change approach using this proven technique that Mckinsey consultants use

Often change approaches are built not using a structured and well-defined series of logics but often using a cookie-cutter, standard change approach...

This model will fundamentally shift how we manage change

Change Management is full of concepts and frameworks that are outdated and not based on empirical research. It seems that in the business world, we...