Ready or Not -- Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges of Change!

Unless you've had your head in the sand you realize that we are living in a changing world, a changing universe, a changing marketplace. Change is everywhere. You can't avoid change. You can't ignore change. You can't prevent change. You just have to live with it! And if you fight change you'll ultimately end up the loser. So how do you deal with change?

Change Management: What's Your Approach to Organizational Transformation?

Are there different types of organizational transformation? There are essentially four distinct types of organizational change. Recognizing and preparing for them in advance will help you manage change and directly affect your bottom line.

Rasberries and Problem Solving

6 steps that take you to a new understanding of old problems. How to use Outcome Based Thinking to create new solutons to cronic issues.

Change Management Practices To Directly Impact Your Bottom-Line

Most companies lose 45% to 50% of their customers every five years, winning new customers can be up to 20 times more expensive than retaining existing customers. Organizations need to change to meet new business challenges. They need to know what makes customers loyal. AG can help ask the right questions and devise techniques to obtain the right answers. Here are some Change Management best practices from AG.

Changing Organisational Culture Requires a Change in Leadership

Changing culture is not so difficult. Culture usually only raises its head as topic when results are not what we want and we provide leadership that allows an unsuitable culture to develop. By all means use some tools to help understand and monitor culture, but we must provide a change in leadership to change culture.

Making Change Happen

Managing change requires a leadership team with project management, communication and analytical skills with a high degree of results orientation. The latter is important as when a journey of change is embarked upon, the environment in which the change is being implemented immediately changes. A changing environment often calls for changed tactics to achieve the same result. More than that it requires the leadership team to have a vision for what the change can bring to the organisation and to individuals and a passion to make that change happen.

Business Process Management;Company Policy

All organisations I have worked for and with, have had a tranche of policies which are out of date, do not fit the environment in which the organisation now finds itself and cause significant levels of inefficiency and ineffectiveness. The solution to this often unseen problem is to review all policies and processes, which are three or more years old, for their purpose.

Business Process Consulting - Key Elements of Corporate Leadership Development

Some of the best corporate team building and leadership development takes place on the job. Businesses can achieve leadership development goals by engaging their up and coming leaders in new business experiences and initiatives that further the goals of the business and build internal capacity and capability.

Change Management: New Projects Toolkit

The key function of staff co-ordination in the company's tasks implementation is led by management personnel. These tasks usually evolve such concepts as strategy development, planning, execution and benchmarking. Good managers are to provide the company's business success along with positive human resources relations and interaction.

Strengthening Corporate Health - 18 Principles (Part 2)

There is a strong parallel between physical and fiscal health. Companies fall sick just as people do. There are three simple steps to building a strong company and thus strengthening corporate health, namely, prevention, early diagnosis and proper treatment. These are summarised into 18 principles. This is the second part of the article describing the step 2: Early Diagnosis

Lawyers and Accounting Fears Causing Bad Decisions and Change Management

Indeed we hear it all the time, corporate executives complaining about incessant lawsuits and Sarbanes Oxley regulations. Is seems all these Lawyers and Accounting Fears are causing Bad Decision Making on the part of corporate board members and we are seeing greater turn-over and Change Management.

Change Stinks or Does It?

Change is constant - there is always something changing in our lives. Some changes have more of a life impact than others: changing a hair style, a career path, a vehicle, a marriage. So if change is constant, what we have to examine is how we respond to change.

When Managers Sing the Blues About Change

Generally, change management issues focus on employee groups. But what about the managers that are supposed to lead the change efforts? Recent studies show that they often dig in their heels as well. This article gives ways managers can come to understand their own resistance to change, have a greater understanding for others, and then how to move on with grace.