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JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Conversely, I represent several consultants who are always in demand. Translation: change management for IT projects.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The Most Common Change Management Mistakes Can Be Avoided. Our organizational alignment research found that the highest performing businesses have leaders and employees who are highly responsive to making the changes required to stay competitive in their marketplace. The 6 Most Common Change Management Mistakes.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

With the majority of organizational change initiatives failing to make it successfully across the finish line, change management consulting experts admit that corporate transformations are challenging. But in order to compete and survive, companies need to learn how to better lead organizational change.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Organizational change efforts typically fail because people tend to see change through eyes that are accustomed to business as usual, rather than through those of people who know how to be leaders of change. They need a change leadership team. How to Begin to Charter a Change Leadership Team.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Navigating the Typical Phases of Organizational Change Organizational leaders face a daunting task: keeping up with or staying ahead of the relentless pressure to change. Study after study has found that the majority of change programs fail to meet expectations. The same is true of navigating the typical phases of change.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Better Change Partnerships at Work Are Required for Successful Organizational Change For organizational change to be successful, leaders must form better change partnerships at work. Leadership vulnerability fosters a culture of authenticity and enables teams to better navigate the unknown together.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Challenging Times Often Require a More Proactive Corporate Strategy Does your leadership team tend to focus on the immediate issues in front of them (a reactive corporate strategy) or do they pause and look for new opportunities (a proactive corporate strategy)? Our leadership simulation assessment data tells us that leaders need to do both.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Don’t make organizational change any more challenging than it already is. Change management consulting experts know that most workers naturally feel resistance to change. To make lasting change, find ways to prepare employees for change in order to reduce anxiety and to increase engagement.

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APRIL 11, 2024

The Importance of Organizational Change Agility In a recent Forbes Insights survey, 81% of C-Level executives consider agility to be the most important characteristic of a successful organization. The Bottom Line For many leadership teams, organizational change agility is not just a competitive advantage — it’s a survival imperative.

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MAY 13, 2023

There Are Different Philosophies About If You Should Ask For Employee Feedback During Times of Change With all of the organizational disruption these days, we are frequently asked if a company should ask for employee feedback during times of change (e.g., And the short answer is: Yes. If you are willing to act, do not be afraid to ask.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Diagnosing the Cause of the Bumps in the Road When Organizational Change Stalls Change management consulting experts know that very few change initiatives move forward without encountering bumps (e.g., change resistance ) in the road. The commitment to pursue organizational change needs to be resolute.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Experienced leaders know that organizational change is a constant and vital force that either propels strategies and people forward or stops them in their tracks. We think of change friction as the normal and expected resistance from those affected by change when attempting to alter the status quo within an organization.

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JULY 14, 2022

Are Employees or Leaders Afraid of Change? Most change management consulting experts assume that employees have a natural resistance to change. Data from our change management simulation backs up that claim. But are leaders afraid of change? How do company leaders feel about change ?

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APRIL 20, 2023

Our organizational alignment research found that workplace culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, employee engagement , and leadership performance. Whether major or minor, culture change can be challenging.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Change Event vs. Ongoing Change Mindsets The first is that far too many leaders approach organizational change as a distinct event that has a beginning and an end. In reality, change management consulting experts know that organizational change is complex, multi-dimensional, messy, and ongoing.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Change Event vs. Ongoing Change Mindsets The first is that far too many leaders approach organizational change as a distinct event that has a beginning and an end. In reality, change management consulting experts know that organizational change is complex, multi-dimensional, messy, and ongoing.

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APRIL 14, 2022

The question is which change camp you fall into — the winners or the losers. To succeed, you need to overcome the biggest obstacles to organizational change. What Separates Winners from Losers in the Change Management Game? Sadly, people’s critical role in effective change has been mostly neglected and misunderstood.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

How To Enable New Work Habits When Change Is Needed When strategies and leaders change, work habits often need to change. But change management consulting experts know that it is not always easy to enable new work habits – even if the changes are viewed as positive.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Start with Creating Leadership Alignment During a crisis, it is critical that leaders act cohesively and quickly with determination. Go Backward in Order to Secure the Future Change management consulting experts know that change is a good time to review the basics — your company’s mission, vision, and values.

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JUNE 16, 2022

In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. With change a constant for most companies, experienced change management consultants know that the most flexible and agile organizations will succeed in the long term.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From the perspective of changing mindsets at work, workers’ ability to absorb and adapt to organizational change has decreased dramatically. Leaders need to reset the conversation and create change mindsets at work ? Leaders need to reset the conversation and create change mindsets at work ? The answer?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. Strategic scenario planning enables teams to identify and plan for key change hypotheses in advance without the pressure or workplace politics to deliver immediately.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Are You Confusing “Communicating Change” with “Leading Change” to Shift Cultures? Change management consultants know that corporate culture change is not easy and can be frustratingly slow ? especially if leaders misunderstand the difference between communicating versus leading change.

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MARCH 13, 2021

Research-Backed Tips for Leaders During Change Change management consulting experts know that taking a trip and leading change have some similarities that can help leaders better prepare for, navigate, and lead organizational change. What change management skills will set them up for success?

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Because communication does not change the hearts and minds of employees to think, behave, and work differently. Being actively involved in the design of the change process does. Poor initial change communications are a major factor in the failure to rally the workforce to the need and enthusiasm for change.

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JULY 12, 2021

As You Consider Organizational Change In order to survive and thrive, it is often necessary to change mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, processes, skills, offerings, market approaches, or maybe all of the above. But the best way to insulate against change failure is to do all you can to get the first 90 days of change right.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Communication for Change Experienced change management consulting professionals have learned a lot (the hard way) about how to communicate for effective change in the workplace. For example, change communication should be simple, clear, timely, relevant, oft-repeated, and leader-led.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

To create a more flexible corporate culture, strive for a workplace that does not immediately consider organizational change as a threat. Instead, you want leaders and teams who are open to the idea of proposed change and who understand the rationale behind the desired changes at work. appeared first on LSA Global.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 Not until the leadership team is aligned can you ensure buy-in from all levels of the workforce, create the right behavioral motivators, and track the success metrics to be sure you stay on track. to-1 Customer Satisfaction 3.2-to-1 to-1 Employee Engagement 16.8-to-1. So, How Do You Achieve It?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A Coherent Business Strategy Matters Our organizational alignment research found that a coherent business strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In the workplace, organizational culture still describes the way people think, behave, and interact but within the sphere of the norms shaped and accepted by the company’s leadership. How might that affect the concept of using team norms to create change? The consistency and accountability will help create the changes that you seek.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

An additional difficulty is that transformational change in an organization can rarely be accomplished incrementally but needs to be adopted in one fell swoop. To Be Successful at Transformational Change. Transformational change requires a greater degree of commitment and perseverance, but it is possible.

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MAY 10, 2019

Common Internal Influences of Change. Leadership changes. You’d think by now that leaders would have learned how to handle organizational change well. The majority of change initiatives (up to 70% by most accounts) fail. Why Is Organizational Change So Difficult? Model Strong Leadership.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

How Do You Sell a Change That People Aren’t Going To Like? What do change management consulting experts say? Research from our microlearning experts suggests that the best way is to announce the change relatively quickly – but then to purposefully delay the implementation.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Challenge of Organizational Change. Change management consultants have long sought to remove barriers to organizational change. With change a constant for most companies, flexible and agile organizations that can adapt to new challenges and new constraints will succeed in the long term.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

How Leaders Can Shift to Accommodate Uncertainty Change management consulting experts know that for things to change, you must first change as a leader. To learn more about how to lead when things are vague, download The Top Skills for High Performing Leaders.

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JULY 12, 2019

But, with adequate preparation, you can increase the likelihood of meeting goals, and completing the change on budget and on time. Better Prepare to Communicate Change. Change management consulting experts follow these tried and true tips to better prepare to communicate change.

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