Change Management Plan
Change Management Strategies: Four Attitudes Toward Change
Sunday, November 4th, 2007There are four attitudes toward change, created by leaders, with which an organization can be managed. They run the gamut from maintaining control (Old Age management) to distributing control (New Age management). Four points can be designated to demark four attitudes about control.
Change Management: Human Speedbumps to Change
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007The most constant factor in each of our lives is change. At work, at home, at play, daily transitions occur that make things different. Some variations are large and significant; most are small and simply intrude upon our daily routine. In order to understand our reaction to change,
Change Management: The High Cost of Change Failures
Thursday, August 30th, 2007You win some, you lose some. Lest we imagine that a failed change initiative is a victimless crime, however, let us count the victims, and the aftereffects of a false start.
1. Loss of jobs. People lose their jobs when change fails to achieve hoped-for results. In the case of many initiatives, lost jobs is the hoped-for [...]
Change Management: Seven Unchangeable Rules of Change
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Mark them well. In 40,000 years, they have not changed one iota. When designing any change initiative, it is important to keep these rules in mind
1. People do what they perceive is in their best interest, thinking as rationally as circumstances allow them to think. We call this the law of PUSH.
Change Management: Of Babies and Bathwater
Sunday, April 15th, 2007The age of change in organizational thinking – sometimes called New Age management theory – is occurring in part because of the influence of the baby boomer generation. The previous generations flourished in the mass-production economy that grew steadily from the 1920s through the 1960s. It is no Oedipal coincidence that the next generation has [...]
Change Management Strategies: Change and Personality
Saturday, January 13th, 2007Back on March 25, 2002, I wrote a newsletter on personalities. But I didn’t go far enough when it came to telling how these personalities effect the way change takes place. Personality type naturally plays a role in one’s ability to meet change head on. You remember the grid that I described showing Controllers, Promoters, [...]
Change Management Strategies: Rules for Team Change
Monday, December 16th, 2002The process of change can be better understood and made more effective by breaking it down according to some basic principles. There are twelve key rules for reducing team resistance and clearing the way for effective team change.
1. Plan for the change. We plan for change in order to have some measure of influence over it. [...]