Full article with thanks to https://www.octanner.com/insights/articles/2019/10/23/how_does_leadership_.html Debunking 5 myths about the role of leaders in creating thriving workplace cultures. True or False: Do leaders really impact company culture? TRUE. It is not shocking that effective leadership correlates to great organizational cultures. After all, leadership is defined as someone who has influence or authority, and leaders can reinforce values while simultaneously holding people …
How to Manage Change During a Merger or Acquisition
Full article with thanks to https://www.panorama-consulting.com/how-to-manage-change-during-a-merger-or-acquisition/ Any type of change is traumatic, but few things are scarier than a merger or acquisition. Whether you’re doing the acquiring or you’re being acquired, this process can be stressful for everyone involved. Managing change related to a merger or acquisition is necessary for both the short- and long-term health of your organization. While mismanagement …
7 steps to merger success
Full article with thanks to https://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/seven-steps-to-merger-excellence/ Mergers and acquisitions often create winners and losers at both the corporate and individual staff levels. One culture unseats another. One employee outweighs another. Power struggles prevail. And while policy and organizational decisions are made from above, the organization sits in limbo, slowly becoming disengaged from its focus. It is a hardly satisfactory state, …
The 3 C’s of Change Leadership
Full article with thanks to https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/successful-change-leader/ Great Change Leaders Focus on People & Process Successful change is one of the biggest problems that modern organizations face. In our fast-changing world, the strategic imperative to change is often clear: Without doing things differently, our company is unlikely to succeed, or last. But change-management research has demonstrated time after time that organizational …
Three Tips For Managing Resistance To Change
Full article with thanks to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/06/15/three-tips-for-managing-resistance-to-change/#d9cf26d642bb Change happens every day in organizations all over the world. Yet for many people, change can be scary. Many of us like to hold on to a sense of safety and security. We get comfortable doing things a certain way, so being asked to do something differently can trigger emotions such as anger, frustration, …
Building An Effective Business Case For Change Management
Full article with thanks to https://www.strategicsourceror.com/2020/05/building-effective-business-case-for.html Change management is a structured approach designed to ensure end users and adopters understand why changes in an organization are occurring and inevitably adopt and utilize the resulting new systems. Change management is a necessary component to project success because if business users to do not adopt new systems then organizations do not achieve their target …
“Re-entry will be one of the biggest change management moments we’ve ever experienced.”
Full article with thanks to https://www.prweek.com/article/1686239/one-biggest-change-management-moments-weve-ever-experienced-agencies-helping-clients-navigate-re-entry Businesses are playing it safe in bringing employees back to the office. From Los Angeles to Miami, most U.S. cities are pushing ahead with reopening their economies, meaning businesses can begin to bring employees back to their offices, as long as local and state rules are followed. Yet even with the green light, many …
Change Management Strategies For Getting Back To Work: 10 Ways To Ensure Success
Full article with thanks to https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2020/05/10/change-management-strategies-for-getting-back-to-work-10-ways-to-ensure-success/#dcfbe872b46b The coronavirus pandemic has thrust every business and leader into a situation of managing change and thinking about how to get people on board for what comes next. In retrospect, the giant social experiment in which organizations suddenly sent everyone home was the easy part. The bigger challenge will be to bring people back …
Change Management: What the Coronavirus Crisis Revealed
Full article with thanks to https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/accounting-audit/article/21136982/building-a-change-management-capability-what-the-coronavirus-crisis-revealed Effective change management can help organizations pivot quickly, decisively, and effectively, even when—perhaps especially when—unforeseen circumstances strike. And while each business is unique, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Accounting firms are certainly familiar with change. Market dynamics, shifting stakeholder expectations, regulatory rule-making—all this and more compel the profession to be agile. Traditionally, …
How Does Organizational Culture Affect Change?
Full article with thanks to https://change.walkme.com/how-does-organizational-culture-affect-change/ Culture is one among many factors that influence a company’s ability to change. A few of these include: Culture Leadership External circumstances, such as customer needs and desires Among many other things. When developing an organizational change project, change practitioners should examine all of these factors in detail. Each factor will have a different …
7 biggest challenges SMEs face – and how to overcome them
Full article with thanks to https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/changing-change-management# Simon Willmett outlines the seven main challenges facing every small business, and offers ways to overcome them. Setting up a business is certainly not without its challenges and requires vast amounts of determination, patience and effort. With figures showing that SMEs account for 99.9pc of the 5.7 million businesses in the UK, standing out …