Coaching at Work

How coaching in thw workplace can improve the bottom line

Change at the Speed of Light

There is a general belief that getting people to change their behaviour is difficult and takes a long time. I can understand this belief when there are so many examples of this being the case. Yet I am aware that we like to defend our beliefs and look for evidence to support them. We know that whatever we believe we will seek to make true. TV debating programmes are based upon this principle and it’s what causes so many arguments between people and groups. So what stops people from changing quickly and easily? Is it their deep in-grained habits, or their beliefs? Or perhaps a mix of the two?

Leading Change; Four Principles for Staying in Control

When leading a change programme, the bare minimum requirement of a leader is to be seen to be in control. The people you are leading will have a range of anxieties about the change which different individuals will feel to a different depth. The nature of the anxiety and the depth of the anxiety will change over time, sometimes precipitously.

Four Cs for Restructuring: Communication, Concentration, Cost Cutting and Cash

Typically in a major restructuring exercise, the timing is extremely short for you to deliver the positive results. There are many things to do and remember. However, you need to prioritise and remember these four Cs.

Criticism Gets You No Where

Any one can criticize, condemn and complain. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. It is also a much smarter way to live. Read about ways that are more effective since they lead to more solutions, improvement and change than any amount of criticism could ever do.

Why Change Fails

With increasing pressure in the workplace, managers are required to continuously improve productivity, grow or contract their operations, outsource or insource, new system here, manage the legacy system there, acquire and dispose. The working environment is continually changing inside organizations, and for our customers it isn’t any easier. There isn’t always a willingness to accept the reality of change inside organizations, but since it’s a reality why do we always make it as hard as possible for ourselves. The key is that although we communicate more than ever, we aren’t good at managing the people-impacts of change.

Bureaucracy is the Parasite to Productivity

A parasite is medically defined as an organism that lives on within another organism at the expense of the host. Bureaucracy is an administrative system, which places undue emphasis on adherence to complex procedures and inflexible rules of operation. It is an administration characterised by excessive red tape and routine.

How You View Change Is How You Do Change - Part One

In 1971, Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shook the world. Toffler predicted that “millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future . . . many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time.” Thirty-five years later, we can say that Toffler has been proven correct in this assertion. And the ‘incessant demand for change’ continues unabated while the ‘painfulness in trying to keep up’ afflicts more and more people throughout the world.

How You View Change Is How You Do Change - Part Two

The perception we have of ourselves and the world is shaped by our need for stability and security in our lives. Driven by our need to survive both as a body and as a person we default to a perception of change as being threatening and frightening. Of course, if we remain as we are we cannot grow beyond our self-imposed limitations and limiting notions about what we can become and the contributions we can make. Most of us realize this and do make attempts from time to time to get out of the physical, psychological and spiritual ruts that keep us traveling along the same smooth, well-worn paths within our private comfortable universe. Unfortunately, most of our efforts to change go nowhere and wind up fueling our fears that change will be for the worse, not for the better. This failure to launch and consummate change serves to reinforce our pessimistic attitude toward it and harden our perception of the world as being antagonistic to our self-interests.

Prepared to Take Your Loss

Some planned changes in life turn out to be less promising than expected. What should you do in such a case?

20th Century Business Methods are the Problem Not the Solution

The conventional management and business improvement method is to improve existing conventional methods. The only way to solve the problems into replace obsolete conventional methods with one 21st century method Result-performance Management (R-pM)

Shifting Preferences For Office Furniture

The choice of furniture used in office has undergone a sea change over the years. But few things have remained constant with the change of times. Read on

How To Manage Long Term Environmental Influences (1)

The environment is the number one change driver; either for your personal change “program” or for organizational moves. The environment brings the necessary conditions for change. But on short term there seems no need...