What are the top 5 issues in managing unpopular change?

I read a really good article in Computer Weekly.com recently. It’s called ‘Top five issues in managing unpopular change’  If you don’t have the time to read the article the Top five were:
1.    Manage union conflict
2.    Build mutual trust with staff
3.    Support employees with skills training
4.    Sell the benefits of transformation
5.    How managers can sabotage transformation
It’s very good piece and can be [...]

Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on October 30th, 2009

Practitioner Community Online

Today I’m really excited to launch Changefirst’s new Online Practitioner Community zone for our PCI users.
We’ve always had a strong commitment to continue to develop our change solutions to reflect current business issues and specific feedback from change and project managers.  What we were hearing months ago were practitioners (after a great workshop experience) wanting to continue to learn from [...]

Posted by Audra Proctor (Head of Learning Services for Changefirst) on October 19th, 2009

Back to basics at CRF in Barcelona

Last week Changefirst were one of the sponsors of the annual Corporate Research Forum conference in Barcelona, which was attended by over 140 top HR executives from around Europe.
For me a highlight of the two-days was a presentation by Louise Csoka and Carl Ohlson on improving human performance. It reminded me of something – that [...]

Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on October 16th, 2009

Feel free to join the discussion

I think the launch of this blog comes at interesting time for not only the change management community but also Changefirst as a company. If we step back 7 or 8 years you will recall much was said about the business potential of the internet and how it would revolutionize the way we lived our [...]

Posted by Brian Casey on October 15th, 2009

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to the opening post on the Changefirst blog.
We have been considering launching the blog for some time and now seems like as relevant a time as any – for reasons that will become more apparent in a moment. So why create the blog in the first place? As a company we are in constant [...]

Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on October 14th, 2009