There once was an organization that was very hierarchical and authoritarian. People were accustomed to waiting until their boss told them what to do, even at the highest levels of leadership. Working, or even talking, with someone who was more than one organizational level away (like your […]

You already know that time management is essential to the productivity of your employees and the success of your company, but you might not think of its role in your change process outside of how it affects your employees’ ability to work. In truth, knowing how to properly manage the timing […]

The debate about certifications will always exist. There are those that feel becoming certified in any knowledge related field after sitting in a class for 2-days is ridiculous, and on the opposite side of the table, there are those that support certifications as an entry point into a field of […]

Creating a change model is just one step to creating a successful change management process. But even if you know the who’s, what’s, and why’s behind your change model and feel prepared and empowered by it, that doesn’t mean that your employees do. They need a clear […]

In my workshops on new ways of working, I recently experimented with an activity that has yielded surprisingly positive results. I was curious to see where a discussion on the volume of change we adopt would take us, and I soon discovered it was worth repeating. And so, I started to name this rate […]

What can you do to support individual change as part of your broader change management efforts? In this article, we offer a few suggestions: * Understand basic theories that explain why people choose to act (or not). * Engage with end users to identify the specific change barriers […]

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Growth is essential to the long-term success of any business, and you can’t have growth without change. You will likely hear a lot about “change management” or a “change management process” when you are looking at business blogs and information websites like this one. […]

Trade and labor unions traditionally organize workers in search of better wages, benefits, and employment conditions. From a management perspective, they are often seen as increasing expenses, adding bureaucracy, and stifling improvements – not great conditions for implementing change. While […]

Change is hard for everyone to accept, whether it is in their personal lives or at work. So when it comes time to implement the necessary changes in your organization, you need a quality change model that can help you explain what’s going to happen to your employees and to get them to feel […]

Organizational change is necessary for the growth of your business, but it’s not always easy for your employees to accept. People fear change and the unknown that it brings, and they resist it. Yet if your company doesn’t change, it remains stagnant, and that means it will never reach […]

Benjamin Franklyn said, “All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.” We know not everyone affected by the change will be impacted by, or respond to, the change in the same way or with the same intensity. Lean […]

I often meet people who want to move into change management from another job, and they ask me, where do I start? The good news is that most of the people I know who do change work full time didn’t start there. When you’re in school, you typically don’t recognize that it would be […]

Twelve months ago, AFR announced on its front page ANZ’s plans to ‘blow up bureaucracy’ with agile practices. Since then, ANZ has described its agile transformation as ‘agile ways of working’, ‘agile working approach’ or ‘new ways of working’. […]

Is it possible that everything that is known about change management is wrong and that there is a need to go back to the drawing board? Change management needs to change? The post Accelerating pace of change – Rethink organizational change management appeared first on Torben Rick. […]