From chaos to clarity
“There is a lot of emotion underlying people’s attitude to change.” Kurt Lewin
Today’s organizations are faced with increasingly rapid changes in technology, customer demands, and the competitive landscape. To sustain growth, weather various economic conditions, and achieve better organizational results, businesses must undergo fundamental changes.
Dealing with change management can be disheartening. Often times, the stakes are high, and the change can affect anything from organization structure to process, technology, and people.
Coaching is a vital part of successful change management. Coaching can alleviate many of the reasons for resistance and build support for the change throughout the organization. Coaching enables managers and leaders to develop strategies that will navigate employees through the transition, which is one of the greatest factors influencing change success.
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Articles on Change Management
Advice from Kids: Developing a Learning Mindset
Leaders, We are all students and teachers at the same time. This principle becomes most apparent when I speak with my two nieces (7 and 9). I just visited them –we had a lot of fun in an indoor playground, shared thoughts and opinions. My big niece has always wanted [...]
Managing Stress and Building Resilience: Quick Tips
Leaders, Resilience is that indescribable capability that helps us bounce back from adversity and leadership setbacks – qualities that are crucial in today’s business environment. Building and strengthening your resilience muscle takes time, attention, tenacity and patience. It also requires a decent amount of self-awareness that enables you to realize [...]
No Love. No Change.
Leaders, What role does love play in change processes or work relationships? What is its opponent? What do you think of love as one of the underlying forces driving transformations? To be crystal clear: The corporate understanding of love differs from a personal or intimate definition of love. Generally, love [...]
Managing Stress and Building Resilience (Interview with the CFA Institute)
Leaders, The CFA Institute (CFA = Chartered Financial Analyst | http://cfainstitute.org) invited me to join their annual conference that was held in Frankfurt, 26 – 28 April 2015. Around 1,100 attendees had the opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest of research in the industry, to network and to [...]
Communities of Practice for Start-Ups – An efficient way to grow faster
In the context of the development of organizations, there is one concept which emerged as one of the most influential concepts in social sciences over the last years (Hughes, Jewson, & Unwin, 2007): The concept of “Communities of Practice'” (CoP). The name was first mentioned by Wenger, 1998. CoPs can [...]
Coach Program: Managing Stress and Building Resilience
Let’s face it. More people - particularly in the corporate world - are increasingly under a lot of more stress. Scarce resources, cost cutting, heightened customer demands, changing environments, increasing workload, multiple sources of information - just to name a few potential stressors. Resilience is that indescribable quality that allows [...]