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 [...]
Why You Need Conversational Intelligence
As change practitioners, we spend a great deal of our lives in conversation: we interview; conduct focus groups; hold one-on-one and one-on-team meetings; we advocate for our sponsors and leaders [...]
A People-First Guide to Working from Home
(The following has been generously shared by LOCAL - The Change Marketing™ Agency as a resource to assist change management practitioners and leaders effectively lead through a massive change in [...]
Change Super-Charged: Responding to the Coronavirus
In Healthcare Trends: Coronavirus and Pandemic-Related Change, Prosci’s Janice Epp brings a change management lens to the healthcare industry’s response to the coronavirus. While a few of her messages are [...]
Change and the Three Brains
As a change practitioner, how often do you listen to your three brains? Neuroscience research has shown that we each have three fully functioning brains. Our head (cephalic) brain is [...]
Culture Change: It Isn’t Easy, and It is Possible
In their article Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame, Tom DiDonato and Noelle Gill describe the approach they used to significantly shift the culture at Lear. As they [...]
Are You a Passionate Practitioner?
How passionate are you about your profession as a change practitioner? How passionately are you practicing your craft? As Jeff Wolf writes in Work Passion is Today’s New Discipline, “the [...]
The Change Management Function of the C-Suite
C-suite executives tend to be good at launching major change initiatives. Rosy promises of the future benefits the change will bring coupled with stoic statements of the hard work that [...]
The Skills and Mindsets of a Change Leader
In their June 2019 blog, ASQ (American Society for Quality) asked the question, How can an individual become a successful change leader? Robert Mitchell’s response identifies three skillsets required of [...]
What Happens When Mistakes Happen?
Mistakes happen. Then what? More often than not, avoidance of responsibility, cover-up, “fix it quick”, or the blame game take over. All of these are evidence of a culture that [...]
