It is not unusual for project teams to sacrifice communication efforts whenever there are time constraints or budget issues. It is also common for teams to assume that a single communication event is enough to change people’s behaviors. The truth is that the failure to communicate effectively can jeopardize your project, disengaging people and putting
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Creating buy-in is difficult work. Organizations that are good at change management are able to quickly align people around new ways of doing things in response to opportunities or threats. Those that master it build resilience and an enduring competitive advantage. We want to talk about a new way to build change capabilities in your
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Change is more prevalent than ever and so is the need to create impact and obtain employee buy-in. Organizations are learning this the hard way: projects that fail because people were not brought up to speed with the change, new processes that are not followed, and expensive technologies that create more “noise” than help the
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Often times, while working with our clients, we are faced with varying degrees of understanding of what change management is. For some of the most informed, change management is a synonym for training and communication, for others change management speaks to the ability to navigate the organization and be persuasive, and for others is just
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More and more, organizations are realizing the importance of applying change management to the initiatives they face. Here are three questions to help you as you research change management training programs to find the one that is best suited to your needs. Who attends my change management training program? A “one size fits all” approach
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One of the main contributors to overall Change Management success is effective executive sponsorship (KPMG, 2010; Prosci, 2012). Sponsorship serves to legitimize the change management effort and creates the necessary buy-in for success. In turn, when the right sponsorship is not in place it is very difficult to succeed. In this blog, we review some
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Once again, The Art of Leadership Conference is coming to Vancouver, scheduled for September 30, 2014. What is this all about? From the website, “This one day conference features five internationally renowned bestselling authors and thought leaders who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking and real world experience on today’s most
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The Challenge: The client – a large mining firm—wanted to implement a new software application in one of their Chilean sites. The new system was meant to make their operations safer by allowing people to better report and track health, safety, and environmental incidents and near hits A previous experience at another site showed that
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In our experience working with organizations on change initiatives, end user training is oftentimes seen as the ideal activity to get people up to speed with the change. The assumption is that, once people leave the training session, they will be well prepared to cope and embrace the change. There are a number of problems
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