While a number of surveys and expert reports have shown that a lack of effective leadership is the biggest obstacle to successful change management initiatives, it’s not sufficient to simply point the finger of blame at the top ranks of organisations. Senior managers may be suffering their own change challenges, struggling with their personal resilience [...]
Posted by jenniferkreger on April 8th, 2011
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We have just uploaded several of our recorded change management webinars, so that you can listen at your leisure. We will be adding more topics over the coming months, in the meantime you can listen to us discuss the following:
Managing Change Related Resistance
Moving from Acceptance to Commitment
People Dynamics of Change
Key Roles in Change
Case for Change [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on November 8th, 2010
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The elevator pitch is an important part of the change communication process as it allows key information to be easily communicated to those affected by the change. A good elevator speech contains the following elements:
It tells a story – “We can’t stay here because…”
Provides direction – what’s in it for me and what do you [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on October 7th, 2010
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I thought you might be interested in the early feedback from our ROI for Change Management survey. Our next newsletter and a subsequent webinar, will take a deeper look at the result. In the meantime, here are some headlines:
The biggest current goal for change – by a long way – was increased productivity. No [...]
Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on June 18th, 2010
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I have just re-read one of the best articles on change I have read in the last few years. In April’s Harvard Business Review Heike Bruch and Jochen Menges wrote an article called the ‘Acceleration Trap.’
The article describes a phenomenon we often see in our work. Organisations are fixated on making so many changes happen [...]
Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on June 11th, 2010
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In this month’s newsletter from Changefirst, David looks at the power of communication and how this underpins a successful change vision and builds commitment to change. JFK set out an incredibly unifying message, with a clear objective. NASA staff clearly knew what they had to achieve, whilst US residents, and most of the world, could [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on April 15th, 2010
Filed under: Change Management, Change management tools, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Resilience | 1 Comment »
I am pleased to announce the launch of our online business change application, e-change®. In summary, e-change is a complete suite of change processes, tools, resources, and e-learning in a single, business application. It enables change managers to deliver and affect change quickly, and can be adopted without the need for costly offsite training and [...]
Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on March 11th, 2010
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It’s funny, after 15 years we are recognised as ‘experts’ in helping organisations become more effective at implementing change. Yet we still feel the effects of major changes ourselves. An old colleague of mine has written several excellent books on change and has managed, simultaneously, to be married and divorced five times. I once asked [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on March 5th, 2010
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I find increasingly that I am coming to rely on online tools to get through my day in my marketing role. Whether it is using our online CRM system or checking web based activity on Google Analytics there is an immediacy that I demand from web based support tools. The business of change managment and [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on November 8th, 2009
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