Change Approach
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 can drive...
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 measure change adoption
Measuring the change adoption of stakeholders is one of the most important parts of the work of change practitioners. It is the ultimate...
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 search term in change management is ‘change management process’. Users are keen to understand a standard formula that they...
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....
Change Outcome Design Success? One LEGO brick at a time!
Change Outcome - Virtually all organisations are undergoing change. Especially right now, with the impacts of Covid, companies are now 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...
The secret in understanding the core of change management
Change management is a broad and diverse discipline with many facets. Just like other disciplines like Finance, Marketing, Human Resources or...
Landing change effectively within a complex environment
How an organization can manage change-related work stress
Slides: How to tell stories of change
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The trick to understanding the real benefits of change management
"In the corporate world, most approaches in defining the business value of change involve hard benefits such as revenue, cost, and time. For...