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 What is it with change? Why do so many co-called business leaders seem to think that 'change' automatically leads to 'improvement'? And why do they implement it so badly? Very often, the answer is that they simply forget that "Consultation = Smart" or "the worker knows best". Trying to implement change without consulting with the people who know most about the work is a recipe for disaster - so is change that reverses something that already works well. USEFUL LINKS |
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Essential ReadingTop strategies for embracing change
Individuals and groups that are able to adapt well to new demands seem to be more successful than those that resist and accept the inevitable slowly. But change is so difficult and is almost always resisted, so how can we best embrace it?
More than managing during change
Change is not easy. Dramatic and repeated changes are especially challenging. When you think that you are barely managing, take stock, because you may be doing much better than you realize.
Silence - the root cause of project failure
Want to know the real reason that major business initiatives or projects fail? According to new research, failing to discuss five key issues before embarking on a new initiative almost guarantees that it will get derailed.
What the hell, I'll give it a go
If you can't get your pressurised, exhausted, confused and cynical managers to the tipping point where their response to a new initiative is "what the hell, I'll give it a go", it spells failure for your business and its ambitions.
Nothing changes if nothing changes
People will willingly engage in change if they have genuine input to the process. So if we want a successful change effort, we need to change how we implement change. If we don't, we just might be a little insane.
Change needs to shake things up to be successful
Much as making an omelette depends on first cracking eggs, successful organisational change almost inevitably involves disrupting the status quo, employers have been told.
The cosmic egg of change
Change management models don't tend to worry about what happened before. They start as though everything just "was". But with all the evidence suggesting that change is inextricably linked to the past, it's no wonder it so often goes wrong.
Latest on ChangeChange management and employee communication strategiesWhen it comes to organizational change, it isn't enough simply to present information to employees and hope this will be enough to win them over. If you really want people engaged and on your side, you need to involve them fully in the process.
Business improvement ideas: don't just settle for excellentThe usual way to bring about chnage is to prove that something is wrong or inadequate and needs altering. But if something is already adequate, a new idea is unlikely to be adopted, however much better it is.
Dealing with a backstabberHarry has landed his dream job. But his task of implementing change is being undermined by an aggressive, back-stabbing colleague who seems determined to resist all of Harry's initiatives and who even their mutual boss is unable to control. What can he do?
Businesses still botching the people side of M&AsThere are signs that M&A activity may soon start to pick up again in Europe, which makes it even more worrying that eight out of 10 companies still fail to grasp the importance of managing the people side of mergers, acquisitions and integrations.
The times they are a-changin'Change is all around us. Past assumptions about how our workplaces function are outdated. Transformation is necessary. But many business leaders are either waiting for external forces to create change or simply reinforcing what isn't working.
Change management: it's the people, stupidSuccessful change management is far more about changing how you manage your people and organisational culture than it is about changing processes and systems.
A lesson in change managementMuch of the focus over the election of Barack Obama has been the hope for change that he represents. But for managers, there has also been a great lesson to learn from the smooth transition of power from the outgoing to the incoming president.
Implementing sustainable changeBenjamin Franklin wrote that the definition of madness was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting change to happen. But this is exactly how many change programmes - in organisations both large and small - can be described.
Michael Jarrett on the secrets of successful changeDr Michael Jarrett, one of Europe's leading experts on organizational change, talks to us about the five factors that most influence the success or failure of almost every change initiative.
Engaging change: six tips for surviving and thrivingWith the economy experiencing a major shakeup, every day presents new challenges and opportunities. How managers adapt to the changing horizon can make the difference between surviving or thriving.
Understand change to make changesTo make improvements you will have to make changes. But to make successful changes you need to understanding why change happens, how it starts, continues, and stops.
It's time to rethink the way you thinkRecent discoveries in how the brain functions have resulted in some startling new conclusions about implementing change. In other words, it's time to rethink how we think.
New M&As left leaderless for two and a half monthsIt's perhaps no wonder nine out of 10 European M&As fail to meet their objectives when senior managers take more than two and a half months to parachute in their new teams.
Managers drowning in changeMost American managers are juggling so many "priority" change projects they can't tell what's important and what's not - and so end up achieving nothing.
Spare us this permanent revolutionManagers are sick of the strategic nonsense doled out by their senior executives and are being worn down by a permanent revolution of ill thought-out projects and initiatives.
A breath of fresh air or just sweet FA?Just as young footballers watch and copy the bad behaviour of their sporting idols, so employees copy the actions and inactions of their bosses. So remember, change starts at the top – and actions always speak louder than words.
Change management a growing headacheManaging change continues to be an issue at the top of the corporate leadership agenda, but with middle managers growing increasingly change-weary, organizations are meeting increased resistance along the way.
People stop change happeningIt isn't inadequate processes, strategy or technology that lead so many organisational change programmes to run into the sand. The main reasons for failed change are all about people.
So how the hell did that happen?While it is often easy to identify the triggers for change with the benefit of hindsight, most of us have a pretty fuzzy grasp of what needs to be done now to accomplish change later.
Lay-offs have become norm of American working lifeAmericans have accepted corporate layoffs as the norm, in the process creating a society of unstable, temporary workers, a new book has argued.
Survival is an option - sort ofWe all know people who have been axed as a result of corporate mergers, buy-outs, acquisitions or restructuring. But what about those who stay behind and try to herd their charges through the maze? How do they survive?
Too much change leads to corner-cuttingOrganisations that repeatedly attempt to alter strategy in the name of improved efficiency will only creating an environment in which employees are overloaded and start taking short cuts.
Getting to the heart of organisational changeSuccessful organisational change should be as much about changing the way people think and behave as about overhauling how they work, workplace specialists have said.
Blinkered attitude to training hampering changeTwo thirds of British businesses fail to back up organisational change with proper training and development support for their workers, vastly increasing the likelihood of long-term failure.
A good left foot?Unless you want to spend your working life in mediocrity, it's time to decide if you are going to choose a life as a pioneer, leading the way in a land that only you know or spend it trailing in hostile environments.
Sometimes the only way to grow is to changeAs cold as it may sound, the only thing constant in this world is change. And if we're going to survive, we need to learn to roll with the changes.
People failures undermine flagship IT projectsMulti-million pound corporate IT projects normally go wrong because companies become too pre-occupied with the technology and overlook the need to address how it will change the way their people work.
Jim Collins and Level 5 LeadershipJim Collins is best known for his influential books Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies and recent bestseller Good To Great. In his latest book, he examines how a good company becomes an exceptional company.
We're not up to the job, worry U.S bossesIn a world of ever more challenging organisational change, today's business leaders do not rate themselves or even feel up to the job, raising serious questions about the future profitability of their businesses, a U.S study has warned.
Transitions: the old, the new and the bridge in-betweenProfessional transitions come in many flavours – downsizing, promotion, career change – but underneath it all, the same dynamics are at work.
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