Archive | July, 2011

Transformation Best Practice

For a transformation to be successful your organisation needs to: Set clear and significant stretch goals Use a range of tactics to engage staff as early as possible Engage in large scale collaboration across the organisation Ensure communication is as clear and effective as possible with focus on building on successes not just fixing problems [...]

The Why, Who, What and How of Change Management

The Australian College of Change Management (ACCM) outline a really useful change roadmap: Identify the strategic objective for your change (the Why) Work out who your stakeholders are (the Who) Identify the impacts to your organisation (the What) Work out  the change enablers (the How) – leadership, training and education,  communication and performance management Use your preferred change [...]

Crafting a Career

I participated in a wonderful workshop recenly run by Gray Poenthal a Canadian career development practitioner based in Vancouver. To find out more about Gray see http://www.ergoncommunications.com/index.html Gray gave an enlightening and insightful perspective on how to help clients who are stuck in their career. The key takeouts for me were: The starting point is different for each person at a [...]