Organizations That Are Leading Change

All organizations deal in some way or the other with change... Many companies follow ow change that has been set in the market. A small group of companies or institutions deal with change in a different way; they are more in the lead of change. They could be pictured as change leaders.

Performance Appraisal System

Learn the importance of an effective performance appraisal system.

How to Design a Good Incentive Plan

Incentive plans should not result in arbitrary distributions of money casually decided upon by senior management. Instead, a good incentive plan must be quantified, must be a predictable result to the employee and must be directly related to measurable performance beyond the norm. This differentiates incentive plans from savings or retirement plans.

Beautiful Flower Syndrome: Differentiation May Not Always Be The Best Strategy

Most companies with a long and storied corporate history have a similarly colorful story behind their internal processes. System limitations, management fads and product introductions have shaped everything from invoice generation to marketing campaign design.

How to Tell if Your Organisation is Ripe for Change

This article draws attention to various possible areas that might need change in an organisation.

Change Management Issues in the Car Wash Business

We hear a lot about the new buzzword; change management all throughout the trade journals in almost every industry and every industry sector in corporate America. Seldom do we realize that change management issues do also affect smaller businesses.

Change Management Issues in Non-Profit Committees

Have you ever been on a nonprofit committee and half way through a very important project someone dismisses them selves from the committee because they have other prior business engagements or they have other time constraints, which do not fit with the committee.

ROI Re-examined

This article describes the many benefits to corporations willing to adopt a culture of innovation

Betwixt and Between - Staying Put or Movin' On

Is your work uninspiring? To consider whether to stay in your current role, reposition at your company, or move on to a new job, these are the main points to consider.

Change Management and Politics

Each time we throw a scoundrel out of public office we see the problems of disruption in organizational capital and in business we too see this all the time with management turnover, mergers or simply normal attrition. In the Public Sector it can be far worse as one team or staff is not re-elected by their constituents and a team is voted into office

Change and The Unproductive Moments During Your Journey

The travel metaphor is an old but still useful metaphor to use in change management. Take for instance this viewpoint. You are on a business trip for a week or so. During that, you aren't able to conncect to the internet, nor to continue your work in another way - Is that a problem?

Change Assessment

Change is such a key ingredient in helping you discover and achieve success, and adaptability to change is vital to coping with some of life's most common challenges. Now it's time to really assess where you are on the transformation scale. How badly do you really want to change?

Managing Change: Perception is Reality

That change is a fact of life does little to mitigate people's usual reactions to it, namely fear, suspicion, and resistance. That's why it's critical to have a plan for communicating and managing during transition that takes into account that an individual's perception about events equals his or her reality. Whether you're managing change on a scale as grand as a company sale or as localized as a new department structure, here are some tips for smoothing the transition from what is to what is to be.