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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An article written by our own David Miller appears in this months Training Journal. Entitled ‘Be more effective during change’, it looks at the role e-learning can play in helping managers deal with change.
The article explains that by managers building their own sense of personal resilience, they are able to take [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on December 22nd, 2010
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Rewards are a real challenge for change agents. It can seem all so logical
but so hard to do well. In our databases, it remains one of the highest risk
factors in change.
Rewards are a real challenge for change agents. It can seem all so logical but can be so hard to do well. In our databases, it [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on August 18th, 2010
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We are about to publish the results of our ‘flash’ survey on ROI and change management. Fascinating stuff it is too. It gives some great information on the inputs and outputs of the change process. Read the initial headline findings here, ROI on Change Management.
But one of the things it brought home to me, was [...]
Posted by Brian Casey on June 25th, 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 »
The Financial Times reported that “Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and Kraft’s biggest shareholder, has attacked the US food group’s £11.6bn ($18.9bn) agreed takeover of Cadbury, saying it was “a bad deal that he would vote against if he could.”
I don’t know what he knows about Kraft but of course he’s right about [...]
Posted by David Miller (Managing Director of Changefirst) on January 22nd, 2010
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I came across an interesting article here about CIOs being at the forefront and leading companies out of recession by driving change, efficiency and leadership. I was trying to draw some parallels with what we’ve been researching around change in a downturn – the real challenges for people and some possible indications of what change [...]
Posted by Audra Proctor (Head of Learning Services for Changefirst) on November 12th, 2009
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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
Filed under: Change Management, Changefirst News, Leadership | 2 Comments »
