… the short answer is because lots of things will get skipped if they are not there. Here is an example:
Continue reading Executive Lunch Question- Why should there be a change management consultant on this project?
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A look back at my response to teaching strategic thinking. Continue reading Can you teach strategic thinking? …Then in the course of your regular interactions practice empathy, patience, understanding, listening and presentation skills, facilitating, negotiating and mediating. Continue reading Change Management as a Career  Where is the balance of patience and speed for your change? Continue reading Balance- Patience and Speed  Is a change management consultant like a helicopter parent? Continue reading Helicopter Change Management Change is fed, and halted, by many things. Environment and individual space need to be considered with every initiative, especially if the change itself will upset stakeholders comfort level. Continue reading Work Style Start to think of participation when it comes to stakeholders. Define what that means and to what extent they will need to be committed or involved (have degrees of participation). You may just find your change initiative moving along smoother than normal. Continue reading Change Participation 
Linkedin turns out to be a window into the future. People from the same company suddenly get active, start recommending each other and add to their network after years of quiet. Result? Attrition. Single executive begins to join groups, add contacts and ask questions in forums- there will soon be a new consultant. I have seen this happen multiple times. Watching the changes people make through the vicarious window of Linkedin is fascinating. There are all kinds of changes around us. Those of individuals making the best of their talents and capability deserve a look and Continue reading Linkedin as a Mirror to Change All of this musing is making me clearly see change as something that happens too fast for some things, to slow for others, too imbalanced at times and non existent when someone (or a party) digs their feet in the sand. Continue reading Washington D.C. change musings Many change models and approaches assume a transition period. This is likely a result of a present to future fill the gap perspective (the gap filling is a transition period). None put any kind of time parameters on the space. Most make it seem as if this is a reasonably long period. As with a lot of change management “theory” not much empirical evidence (hard to come by with human nature- too subjective) supports the assumption. Is there a transition period for change? If the change is not a replacement of something else- the bigger the change the more Continue reading Transitions |
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