When facing change within an organisation, it’s not unusual for employees to feel disorientated and out-of-sorts. Often it can feel like their entire world is crumbling around them and that their sense of identity is being compromised. What looks like a relative minor change to managers and leaders is often amplified the further down […]
I read an interesting article in the news this morning in the UK about research carried out in education. One I thought I would share with you as it has relevance to most workplaces too.
The research found that excessive praise for struggling children by teachers may be counter-productive to learning. It said, “too much […]
In our recent blog, “5 ways to spark life back into your organisation”, we outlined 5 tactics to breath life into a mature organisation and these were:
Shape conversations
Get clear on what matters most
Show them the lid of the box
Deal with the “Tough Stuff”
Change behaviours not just processes
Over the coming weeks, we will be running a […]
Have you seen a change programme within your organisation fail… and then be asked to resurrect it? Re-introducing failed projects back into the organisation is never easy.
The challenge is that often these initiatives have been sold in at a high level within the organisation with a business case that sounds entirely logical and sensible. […]
For most large organisations, there was a time when we “lived above the shop”… when we knew everyone by first name, where communication was easy as we could just press the stop button to talk to each other and when it was so much clearer what we were meant to be doing and what […]
Whether it’s moving jobs, moving to a new school or adapting to a new office layout, we all face times when we have to let go of something that has marked out our identity and defined who we are. For that reason, helping employees to deal with change is never easy. In any change […]
