The Skills of Successful Change Leadership
As change practitioners, we know that having the right leadership for the initiatives we support is critical. The Center for Creative Leadership conducted a study to determine what those change [...]
Getting Real About Culture Change
Peter Drucker wrote, “Culture eats change for breakfast.” As a change practitioner, you have likely been engaged to support “culture change” initiatives in the past. It is also likely that [...]
Innovation: What Questions Should You Be Asking?
If we are to be fully in service to our clients, we should be prepared to help them gain new insights to how they are supporting—and sometimes undermining—the changes they [...]
Brain Cleaning
If you know anything about neuroscience it is likely you have heard about neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to build new neural networks as you gain new knowledge and [...]
Why Take a Walk?
Sometimes the day-to-day work of a change practitioner can feel very routine. But especially as you take on more responsibility supporting major change initiatives, those times become fewer and fewer. [...]
Teaming For Success
Amy Edmondson, the Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, draws an important distinction between teams and teaming in this TEDNYC talk. It is a distinction that we—as [...]
Facts Don’t Change People’s Minds. Here’s What Does.
As change practitioners, we spend a great deal of time trying to get people to change their minds. We challenge sponsors and leaders to think differently and to act in [...]
Transformation Comes in Many Flavors
If you are a change practitioner, transformation is a word that most likely permeates more and more of your conversations, more and more of your assignments, and more and more [...]
A Change Lesson from Game of Thrones
Carmine Gallo knows a lot about communication. Among other things, he is the author of Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great and Talk Like TED, [...]
Are You Ready to Leave Your Plateau?
Research has shown that for most people, performance plateaus after a couple of years. This is true whether you are looking at job performance, performance as a parent or partner, [...]
