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Team Retrospective – a tool to learn at the end of an organizational change initiative

What happens at the end of an organizational change initiative? If you search online or through books and articles on managing change, there are surprisingly few resources to guide change leaders. organizational change leadership However, the ending phase of change (the Harvesting phase in the RCA Seasons of Growth framework) plays an important role in […]

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Change, Change Management, Effective Teams, Facilitation, Stakeholders, Sustaining Change

Smooth Handovers Enable Continued Success

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The end is in sight! The finish line is close! At last, you can declare success and bring this change initiative to an end! Or can you? What might happen to all of the hard work that you and the team have put into this project? We’re in the final phase of a change process, the

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Change Management, Communication, Growth, Inclusion, Organizational Growth, Stakeholders

Avoid these 5 mistakes in leading change!

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Implementing organizational change doesn’t have to be challenging. If you’re a leader interested in how to do this well, I’ve got 5 insider tips to share with you. Change is the only constant, the old adage goes. Organizations need to change to meet new demands, and an evolving marketplace. When navigated successfully, change encourages innovation,

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Adaptive Leadership, Change Management, Effective Teams, Leadership, Resistance

Use Team Charters to set a team up for success

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“A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” Katzenbach and Smith (2015) The Wisdom of Teams I find this such a helpful description of a team! It is simple, clear, and explicit about what distinguishes

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Effective Teams, Leaders, Leadership, Teams

Mapping Stakeholders in Change – a leader’s guide

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Oof – that was unexpected! Who knew there was going to be so much resistance to this organizational change? Have you ever been in this situation? You recently launched a change initiative with great fanfare! You’ve been planning this change for a while, but the response is less enthusiastic than you were expecting. In fact,

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Change, Change Management, Growth, influencing others, Leaders, Resistance, Sustaining Change

Are you Ready for Growth?

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You’re excited about the future! You’ve got an ambitious strategy to grow and scale a proven program so that you can reach many more people! But are you really ready for growth? The unfortunate reality is that too many organizations find themselves overwhelmed by the practical challenges of managing growth. Do you remember what it

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What exactly is an effective team?

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Is a team productive if they complete the task on time, but had such a toxic experience in doing so that they never want to work together again? I was once part of a team like this. We were four people, brought together from different parts of the world, to work on a project. We

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Change, Impact, Leaders, Teams

Learn and Adjust As You Go

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You bring the change team together for one of your regular meetings. The change initiative has been underway for six months. You’ve been following the “rolling six month plan” that you developed together. You have just completed a round of collecting progress data. And things are… just a bit off course. Things are clearly moving along,

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SCAMPER your way to innovative solutions

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Do you remember how you felt in April 2020? That was the point when we all began to realize that this COIVD-19 pandemic might be around for longer than we had anticipated. And all the plans we had for the year were in jeopardy! Remember that feeling? We realized that we could not simply adapt

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Change, Facilitation, Growth, Innovation, Leaders, Plans

Watch out for Fatal Assumptions!

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Kolmanskop is an abandoned town on the edge of the Namib Desert in southern Africa. Once it was one of the wealthiest, most lively places in that country. Today, it is considered a ‘ghost town’ and the desert has reclaimed for itself the once-majestic houses that made up the town. The original inhabitants of

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