The (Missing) Link Between Thoughts And Action

Not only during the disturbing periods of change, but in day-to-day management situations too: action is always essential. There are situations however where your team slows down to stop.

Change Management Issues in Small Service Clubs

Change management issues can be just as serious in the private nonprofit sector as they can be in corporate America. Change management is not often talked about in the nonprofit sector but I have seen firsthand how some groups slide downhill

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 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?

Change is Predictable

In business and in life change is desirable and in many ways predictable. Each decade offers a combination of opportunity & challenge. As you make wise choices, you will develop new stregths, unearth new talents and really enjoy your life.

Growing from Entrepreneur to Manager

Small business start-up rates are at record levels; so are failure rates. There is a definite pattern to failure rates. Initial growth of small business often plateaus because of a lack of corresponding growth in basic management skills. Entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational to strategic and supervisory. Entrepreneurs must become professional managers or suffer poor business performance, even failure. Growth in sales and employees must be accompanied by corresponding growth in management skills. Systems, procedures, tools and training already exist that can be quickly adapted to small businesses at low cost.

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.

What's the Big ID?

In the industry for your products and services, there may be many existing elements like symbols, colors, or other visual images that are very familiar to the people who buy and use the appropriate products and services. Your mission is to find those elements, adopt them within your identity, and become an integral part of the community you to intend to serve.

Change: Evolution or Revolution?

What is better evolutionary or revolutionary change? Whilst revolutionary change is often required in an organisation, it can be a sign of poor management that has been unable to instil a culture of evolutionary change.

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.

How to Create a Business Culture (in Seven Difficult Steps)

Many companies treat organizational culture as if it were a mysterious, organic process that can't be managed or even analyzed. This couldn't be further from the truth: any organization can decide what kind of culture they want to have, then plan how to evolve into that culture; the techniques have been around since the 1950's, but no one things to use them in the corporate world. This doesn't mean that changing a culture is easy - people and cultures are resistent to change (even beneficial change) and you have to be patient and persevering and flexible; but in the end you can create exactly the organizational culture that you are looking for.

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.

Ten Things You Should Focus on to Transform Your Finance Function

Are you dealing with manual processes, inadequate technology and increasing demands from the organization? Need to develop strategies for shared services, outsourcing and performance management?

Managing Change: Unintended Consequences

Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point of view and act accordingly.