I read a great leadership article this week about doing the right thing for your role, not necessarily the right/easy thing for you. It was all about how looking at a challenge from the perspective of your role gives you objectivity, which helps you to do difficult things. The logic is that if we look […]
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Lockdown 2.0 – Change fatigue!
The challenge Lockdown 2.0 has triggered change fatigue in many of us, because it is a great example of “here we go again”. The problem with the need to repeat the great sacrifices and personal restraint we showed the first time, is that we must dig deeper to find the rationale. We put all our […]
How emergent change really feels!
The challenge Over the last few months I have been living through a very significant change in my circumstances, triggered by Covid and Brexit. I am accidentally experiencing high levels of emergent change. There are many facets to this change and as is common with emergent change, there is no single source of requirements, so […]
5 Steps to Plan a Change
Like many of you, I am involved in new initiatives that my clients want to kick off and make progress with before the year end. I have set up hundreds of change programmes during my career, and I have a well thought through approach to getting things started in an organised way. Use my top […]
Changing Change Management
I have been leading transformational change programmes for over 20 years, and during this time I have seen the environment in which we work shift from implementing singular change to coping with a relentless stream of change. This paper explores the impact of the new change environment and makes suggestions for how we can address […]
Coping with continuous change
Introduction We are constantly bombarded by new ideas, asked to change how we are currently doing things, expected to adopt new apps intuitively. We are at saturation point with change so we need strategies to help us cope. We need more than a mechanism for leading a single change, we need an approach for navigating […]
Training has new meaning when WFH
As the duration of working from home has lengthened our immediate excitement of skipping the commute is being replaced by a realisation of the things we are missing. Top of this for me and countless others is the ability to learn from my colleagues. Leading transformational change is not easy and there is no single […]
Kick-start our own change!
Introduction I have experienced a summer “slowdown” despite not having a proper holiday, which is time away from my home and the people I see all the time! I am struggling to find the energy and motivation to get back to work so have decided to use my behavioural change expertise to create a recipe […]
Change Manage your career
My coaching sessions during this pandemic have raised a common issue: careers hitting a crossroads with the decision between increasingly specialist roles or taking a management position. We hit a plateau with our current career, feeling as if we are not being stretched or challenged by our current role. This can happen at any age, […]