Adapting to Change is Equally Important as Adopting Change

Change isn’t just a matter of doing things differently. It has to do with the trust the employees have in the management to know that the alteration will be an improvement.

Hurricane Season a Good Time for Change Management

The 2006 Atlantic tropical hurricane season can be very good time for change management in your corporation or company. When dealing with disaster preparedness or even mandatory evacuations company management is put into crisis mode and as they handle this crisis and adversity

What Exactly Is Project Management?

Projects comprise a considerable percentage of typical business acitivity. Completing projects in a timely and cost efficient manner makes good business sense. The project manager is the key facilitator of project success.

Change Management Issues in Non-Profit Committees

Have you ever been on a nonprofit committee and half way through a very important project someone dismisses them selves from the committee because they have other prior business engagements or they have other time constraints, which do not fit with the committee.

Change Management and Ego Issues

Why is the issue of change management so serious and why is the buzzword raceing through MBA business schools and business universities across the country? The reason is that a disruption or change in the management of the Corporation or company interrupts the normal flow of business decisions in the firm. Why does this happen?

Dealing With Resistance to Change

Business professionals are often stymied by the problems they encounter when trying to implement change. Their frustration can then create even more of a roadblock. Following are a few tips for dealing with resistance.

Embrace Change: Business & Personal Renewal Cycles c 2006

The change process or growth cycle is really a cycle of renewal. Business change cycles co-exist with personal change cycles as leadership and employees go through the process together. Come learn about the process so that you learn to embrace change.

Keeping the Edge

The RENEWAL CYCLE is a positive, creative, growth oriented force in our lives. If you are going through a change, if you feel stuck, if you're not sure of your next direction this article is for you. You will learn about the process and with that, you can regain balance and get excited about your next stage in life.

Project Management Consulting: Change Doesn't Have To Be Painful

One constant in any field during the digital age is that change is constant. This has been said so much that it's almost cliche nowadays. The question is what, if anything, are you and your organization doing about it.

Critical Change

Change is critical to your success and happiness. I cringe to think what might happen in our lives if we don't allow ourselves the opportunity to make the appropriate changes. Sure, we can pretend that we don't need to change, that there is nothing wrong with our lives. Then, however, we soon forget the consequences of not taking action and making the changes we know we need to make.

Change Management: Training Is Not Enough

Training as a tool for changing people's behaviour to better achieve the goal organisations set for themselves is a failure. Most organisations do not think through the design of their training enough to make it as useful a tool for employee developemnt as it should be. Hence they do not get sufficient return on their investment.

Change: Evolution or Revolution?

What is better evolutionary or revolutionary change? Whilst revolutionary change is often required in an organisation, it can be a sign of poor management that has been unable to instil a culture of evolutionary change.

How to Create a Business Culture (in Seven Difficult Steps)

Many companies treat organizational culture as if it were a mysterious, organic process that can't be managed or even analyzed. This couldn't be further from the truth: any organization can decide what kind of culture they want to have, then plan how to evolve into that culture; the techniques have been around since the 1950's, but no one things to use them in the corporate world. This doesn't mean that changing a culture is easy - people and cultures are resistent to change (even beneficial change) and you have to be patient and persevering and flexible; but in the end you can create exactly the organizational culture that you are looking for.

Time for Change Management; Franchisees Too Quick to Blame Franchisors for Their Own Failures

In reviewing the complaints of franchisees over the last 20-years we see some similarities to the over all society as a whole. Franchisees are often too quick to Blame their Franchisors for their Own Failures, insufficient capital and poor use of business acumen.

Managing Change: Unintended Consequences

Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point of view and act accordingly.