Management Skills

Failure reasons in change management are many and varied. But one thing is painfully clear: Any organisational initiative that creates change – or has a significant change element to it – has a 70% chance of not achieving what was originally envisaged. So risk management and mitigation is clearly an extremely important aspect of the [...]

The people aspects of change is the overwhelming issue Change management models have clearly evolved from the days of Kurt Lewins freeze phases model which was very much a product and reflection of the industrial age – with the emphasis on command control imposed from the top down. Similarly, even Michael Hammer ["Re-engineering the Corporation"] [...]

In managing change in the workplace it is extremely important to draw the distinction between “incremental change” and “step change”. Whilst the broad principles of leading and managing change are universal it is very important to establish very early on whether or not what you are proposing can be regarded as “incremental change” and realistically [...]

The western world-view of business can be somewhat simplistically summarised by the “3 Ps” – process, people and pounds sterling – a business climate where the “bottom line” is delivered by process – worked by people. The traditional project approach to change management sees it as a set of tasks that if executed successfully get [...]

In managing change in the workplace it is extremely important to draw the distinction between “incremental change” and “step change”. Whilst the broad principles of leading and managing change are universal it is very important to establish very early on whether or not what you are proposing can be regarded as “incremental change” and realistically [...]