In this exclusive video for The Business Transformation Network, I discuss organisational change and the concepts behind delivering successful change at pace. Click here to view During this video I introduce the concept of change and who is responsible for managing and encouraging change. I then look at the 6 main principles of changing…
Recently I shared an overview of my six principles of delivering change at pace – in this post I focus on my sixth and final principle ‘Tie outcomes to business results’. Let me begin with an opening provocation – I believe that any change initiated in an organisation should only exist to help the viability, health…
I recently shared an overview of my six principles of delivering change at pace – in this post I focus on my fifth principle ‘establish strong sponsorship and key stakeholder engagement’. For many decades, studies on change success report the same finding – that the people aspects of projects are the most common factors associated…
Given the choice would you rather implement someone else’s solution or one that you had created yourself? Which do you think you would have greater vested interest in? If you’re anything like me, I think you would say the latter. Recently I shared an overview of my six principles of delivering change at pace – in…
As the lyric of the chart-topping Spice Girls hit reminds us, it’s good to focus on what you want but how often in life have you experienced a slight emptiness in the achievement of a desire? Could it be that what you really need is not the same as what you say you want? In…
Recently I shared my six principles of delivering change at pace – in this post I focus on the second principle – ‘Take a step by step approach’ but what has that got to do with black swans? The origin of the phrase ‘black swan’ derives from long ago in the early second century when Roman…
Last week I shared my six principles of delivering change at pace – in this post I focus on the first and perhaps most important principle that ‘All change starts with self’. Let me begin with a simple question – who can you change? Your partner, husband or wife, your teenage daughter or son? Your best…
Have you ever dreamed of building your own house? I do…constantly… and if you are a little like me, do you also enjoy watching the many TV shows of people who do just that? What an inspiring change project that would be! I know for sure that when the day does arrives and I fulfill…
Can you remember having one of those moments in your career when the ‘penny finally dropped’? Mine came relatively early on at a company-wide conference at Wembley Arena. ‘Cue stage lights, cue dramatic music’ and there in the distance at the centre of the huge stage was Jan Lescley the then CEO Smithkline Beecham. Drawing…
