Planning the Work – a practical tool for teams

How hard can it be to develop a plan? You’d be surprised at just how challenging it can be! There are so many things that can go wrong – both in the process of developing the plan, and in the process of implementing the plan. But I think there is one common issue that shows up […]

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Navigate Your Organization's Next Big Change with Confidence: Four Power Moves for Change Leaders

Navigate Your Organization’s Next Big Change with Confidence: Four Power Moves for Change Leaders

When was the last time you had space to truly think through a major organizational change before you were in the midst of it? It’s probably been a while, right?   What’s Going On? To be fair, there are occasions when there truly is limited time to plan and prepare—like a crisis or emergency that

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Steps to a Successful Leadership Transition

Leadership Transitions can be hard. Even The Walt Disney Company has stumbled, as this article points out,  highlighting its efforts to land on the right path. types of organizational change The problem: companies are not aware that they are engaging in ‘magical thinking’ when it comes to leadership transitions. Organizations, rightly, put a lot of

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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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Communicating When Change Is About To Take Place

“Here’s what’s happening, and here’s what you can expect.” examples of organizational change   With these words, the pilot on a recent flight let us know that there was going to be a delay. She explained why (storms on our flight path), how long we could expect to be delayed (90 minutes!), and that we,

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Avoid These Five Critical Mistakes In Leading Change! Organizational Change Management

Avoid These Five Critical Mistakes In Leading Change!

Leading an organizational change initiative is something that, more likely than not, you will take on as a leader. It could impact your team, your department, or even the whole organization. You might have come across a statistic which claims that 70% of organizational change efforts fail. This might lead you to have second thoughts

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Change Leaders – Are You Missing This Crucial Step? Unlocking the Power of Stakeholder Mapping

Change Leaders – Are You Missing This Crucial Step? Unlocking the Power of Stakeholder Mapping

Are you encountering unexpected pushback during your change initiative? You launched the change with great expectations and high hopes for success. You were responding to a shared pain with a promise to improve things. It felt like everyone with whom you spoke supported the need for change. So why this resistance? And why is some

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