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
Creating a culture of confidence
Leaders, What do you consider the biggest threat to your organization to be? Wrestling with declining revenues? Struggling with intense global competition? Or battling against disruptive new technologies? How about fear? Fear has been spreading throughout organizations – negatively impacting morale, productivity, and the bottom-line. Living in fear is destructive [...]
How comfortable are you in your discomfort zone?
Leaders, What would you do if there was no fear? Are you setting the stage for progress and confidence? Or are you playing it safe and waiting for the storm to pass? How present and ambitious are your goals? What is the risk of staying in your comfort zone? Are [...]
Trust: Gain Motivation and Lose Anxiety
Trust is fundamental to all relationships. Without it, the foundation of collaboration is quicksand. Here are some examples where trust plays a familiar role, and other illustrations where the challenge is murky. A surgeon I know has an explosive temper. It gets him into a lot of trouble – in [...]
A culture of trust needs transparency
Leaders, Everyone wants to be part of a workplace culture that puts a premium on delivering the real truth. Lies and secrets break trust, while honesty and transparency build trust. If trust somehow exists without transparency, this so-called trust is nothing more than an illusion because it is based on what is [...]
Caution: Ego Traps
Leaders, Complacent superiority is your biggest clue that you are in an ego trap. The ego loves to feel superior. It loves judging, and looking down on others. It loves being right, and knowing more about everything and everyone. Leaders who operate with their ego on the front burner can [...]
Executives derail
Leaders, Derailment happens. It is normal. It is human. And it comes with consequences for the organization as well as yourself. Research suggests that more than 60% of senior leaders and executives derail at some point of time in their career. Also, the greatest majority of these leaders, belong [...]