Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation

Becoming an agile world class company requires overcoming organizational inertia. Often overlooked are outdated cultures, ineffective management skills, bureaucratic red tape, and a reward system that doesn't fit. How do you get your arms around this? The integrated change model provides a comprehensive methodology for large scale change and implementation of time-based strategy.

Change Management Checklist – Give Your Change Program a Quick Health Check

How is your change initiative going? Whether you are implementing a new local accounting system in your department or your organization is embarking on a comprehensive culture change program, it makes sense to take a breath and review how you are traveling. Here is a quick eighteen-point checklist that you can use on your current change project to determine areas for improvement.

Attention! Using Projects For Guiding Change - Small Versus Large Organizations

There are many similarities between large companies on one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) on the other hand. Many concepts that may have been developed for large organizations are applicable for small businesses. Large organization could benefit from (forgotten) methods that are used by small businesses. Especcially when dealing with change.

Business Golf: The Questions Business People Should Ask Themselves

To be successful into today’s economy, businesses need to find better ways to secure their customer and employee base. Business Golf provides the vehicle business should use to improve upon their business image and facilitate the changes they need to make to build solid business relationships.

Six Sigma Training – An Overview

Six Sigma Training can be complex... this article makes it simple!

A New Vision of Leadership

Across the board in today’s society, people are demanding more involvement in the decisions that affect them. No longer do we find the blind acceptance of previously unchallenged authorities such as governments, institutions, or even workplace management. Whether leaders like it or not, today’s norm of rapid-fire, on-demand information transfer has set up a cultural expectation of choice, responsibility and freedom. These challenges call for a fundamental transformation of management style and culture.

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.

Where Do You Begin? Begin With the End in Mind!

This article guides you towards developing a vision of what your healthcare site could be like. It also points out that you need to master a few tools that fit you and those at your site so you can know what is possible and create a vision that is achievable.

Managing Resistance to Change

The resistance to change is purely a psychological concern only. They are concerned with their safety. They do apprehend whether they would be protected and free from harm during the period when changes are implemented. The situations caused by changes will trigger the psychological responses such as safety and security. Some of these responses may be positive and some others may be negative. For example, if people with decision-making powers were taken out, on account of change efforts, it would cause a negative result. On the other hand if they are told clearly about these early and given clear options to chose from, they would be more positive about the change.

How to Create and Sustain Optimal Performance Throughout Your Organization

There is a process with twenty steps that, if followed in your organization, will result in consistent optimal performance throughout your workforce. If you implement this process step by step, you’ll soon find that you are beating your sales, productivity and profitability goals and are exercising greater leverage of your organization’s human capital and skill sets toward steady enterprise growth.

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 the Truck Wash Business

In a truck wash business it appears that many managers come and go and this means there is always a turnover problem with employees when a new manager comes into play. These issues are serious because many of the truckers who stop at the truck wash

Change Management Disruptions of Your Competitors

We have all heard a lot about change management and it seems to be a buzzword that is being kicked around in management schools at top universities. Change management interruptions can cause chaos in a Corporation and it is this reason that Change Management is discussed in case studies at MBA schools.

Things Do Not Change - We Do

We live in a world of constant change, and even though the vast majority of these changes are for the better, change is still something that many people – and therefore many organisations – can find ...