Introduction As someone who works all over the world, Coronovirus has added an extra layer of uncertainty to my work. It is unsettling to wake up to headlines about airlines cancelling flights and restricted movement plans by governments. I learnt a lot as global head of contingency planning and disaster recovery years ago which has […]
Category Archives: Insights
Mental health benefits of Agile
Introduction I am in the middle of a challenging personal project, moving my home from the UK to Spain. The scale of the work involved leaves me breathless but it is giving me insight and I hope empathy for all those who feel overwhelmed by change at work. I think the biggest source of stress […]
Resistance to change
Change Management Institute UK event – Addressing resistance to change Fantastic event by People Deliver Projects who sent along their A-team to give us a thought provoking and interactive session on negotiating through resistance. It was a true master-class, as they told a story of a Change Manager who was failing to make connections with […]
Know what’s coming next!
Introduction On a family holiday last week so didn’t read my emails much, so this weekend scooting through trying to get through as many as possible. It’s a boring exercise but it gave me pause for thought when I saw how many invites I had for events on AI, RPA, digital transformation etc. As none […]
Professional Change Management
Introduction Working with an amazing group of Change Agents last week, so committed to making change happen in their organisation. Led us into lots of discussions about how to manage high volumes of change. We debated what I refer to as “enterprise level change” which is the informal mobilisation of lots of teams to deliver […]
Change Agent resources
The value, importance and need for change management skills is growing at a rapid pace. I believe we are entering a new phase of growth, as organisations move from only have a handful of change professionals, to a broader resource pool of local change leaders, based in the business but responsible, with their colleagues, for […]
Agile leads to honesty!
Introduction I am helping an organisation transition from waterfall to Agile project management. This has led to lots of discussions on the benefits of Agile. Aside from the obvious benefits of faster response to changing circumstances, continuous representation of the customer/business viewpoint and earlier return on investment, I want to add honesty. Honesty refers to […]
Lessons learned – reinforcing change
Introduction I attended numerous presentations last week which identified how critical senior leader commitment to change really is. This isn’t a surprise to any of us, but I thought it would be useful to define some practical activities to generate the reinforcement of change by senior leaders. To ensure the change you make becomes the […]
Lessons Learned – Change Agents
Introduction Working with a new group of Change Agents last week, I thought I would share their lessons learned. Lesson 1 – Relationships First big surprise for many of them as the week unfolded was the realisation that whilst it is called “change management” don’t assume the word management means process. As one of them […]