Change Management

Making Workplace Change Happen in Six Steps
   by Leslie Allan AIMM MAITD

Managing change in today’s organizations is not easy. Those companies that get it right win a significant strategic advantage over their struggling competitors. Leslie Allan shows how you can apply a practical change management process that will help you gain success on your next change initiative.

Communicating Change Management: Change Is the Same as It Always Was
   by Garrison Wynn

How can management motivate people to listen? By making sure they will benefit from what is said!

Tips for Leading Change: Reduce Sabotage - Increase Profits While Moving Through Transitions  by L. John Mason

Does your organization embrace change? If not, would you like to learn how to lead transitions more effectively? Would you like to reduce resistance and sabotage to your needed changes? These tips can help you to reduce your stress.

Change at the Work Place - Don't Move That Cheese  by Christoph Puetz

Change in life is inevitable. As sooner as we can adopt to change the better we will be able to position ourselves and make the best out of it. This is especially true when it comes to change at work.

Organization Change: Learning from the Best  by Leslie Allan AIMM MAITD

How is your organization faring with leading and implementing its change initiatives? There are valuable lessons to be learned from those organizations doing it well. Read the results of this extensive global study and you may be surprised at the outcome.

Change Management Checklist – Give Your Change Program a Quick Health Check
   by Vicki Heath

How is your change initiative going? Whether you are implementing a new local accounting system in your department or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project to determine areas for improvement.

Making Change Stick  by Mark Eaton MSc MBA CEng FRSA

Over 87 percent of organisational change programmes fail within 12 months of starting. This article examines the critical factors that can make the difference between success and failure.

Moving Beyond Fear for Small Business Success  by Michael Keith Clark

For the successful small business owner, here are keys to getting out of fear and overwhelm and taking charge of their business. This is one of the major keys to small business success.

So, You Want to Be a Change Leader  by Leslie Allan AIMM MAITD

Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment.

How Change Mismanagement Created an Industry  by Harry Greene

Current static organizations need periodic re-organization. Change implementation creates periodic upheaval. Currently enterprises lack a foundation for business change. So, they use consultants to implement change. After implementation, they have other problems from the way change was implemeted. So, consultants devised "change management" services to solve problems created in change. Is this the answer, to use consultants to create problems and hire the consultants to solve the problems?

Twelve Key Steps to Managing Change During the Acquisition Process
   by Rick Johnson

When a company is acquired, there are a number of behavior patterns which are wise for managers in the company to adopt. They are helpful not only to the smooth integration of the two businesses, but to the individual executives themselves. Adherence to these standards of conduct and rules of action will assist in identifying those managers whose contribution is likely to be of most value to the organization in the long term.

Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation  by Richard G. Ligus

Becoming an agile world class company requires overcoming organizational inertia. Often overlooked are outdated cultures, ineffective management skills, bureaucratic red tape, and a reward system that doesn't fit. How do you get your arms around this? The integrated change model provides a comprehensive methodology for large scale change and implementation of time-based strategy.

Follow My Leader - To Effect Change, Leaders Must Walk the Talk!
   by Glen Feechan

In any change project, the leader must convince everyone of the importance of the change. This aspect of managing change is often overlooked or done poorly, leading to many failed change initiatives.

Why Won’t Employees Change?  by Leslie Allan AIMM MAITD

Are you experiencing difficulty getting the support you need to make changes in your workplace? If people appear to be going slow or pushing back irrationally, there may be a valid reason. This article reveals two powerful ways of looking at the resistance to your change initiative that will help you move forward.

Change in Four Steps: How to Make Effective Changes at Work
   by Fritz Brunner Ph.D.

Why is this the third time you have set this goal? You know how to set goals. Where is the problem? It could be that you have no plan for accomplishing this change. How can you expect to accomplish this without a new approach? You can’t.

Buy-In: What Is It? And Why Is It Important?  by Sharon Drew Morgen

Buy-in is sought when an adjustment is required within the status quo. While the impetus for the change may differ, plans for implementation seem to be predicated on the basic belief that buy-in can be achieved, and a new set of actions agreed upon and carried out, once a logical, congruent case is made for the requested change.

Five Myths About Change: How to Make Change Work for You
   by Tom Northup

Many myths affect our attitudes toward change and limit our ability to proactively accomplish positive change. This article takes a closer look at five myths about change.

Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Fail as a Manager  by Terry Paulson

In an effort to be less than constructive as a manager, here are ten sure-fire ways to alienate and demotivate your team on your change journey.

Leading Through Change  by Kimberly King

Being a strong change catalyst is critical to being an effective mentor. This article gives some critical suggestions for assisting you in developing strong change management skills in order to assist your organization through transition periods.

Change Management in Practice: Why Does Change Fail?  by Jonathan Palmer

A recent informal UK survey of 120 government transformation programmes identified resistance as a key element in why change fails.

Communicating Change – The Essentials!  by Bob Selden

A recent informal UK survey of 120 government transformation programmes identified resistance as a key element in why change fails.