The Meaning of Management

By |2021-07-20T12:41:17+10:00June 30th, 2021|Categories: General, Managing Change|

The Meaning of Management What does management mean to you? What did it mean in the past and how has it changed over time? Social Change Before the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s, most people lived and worked in small communities. The corporations or government enterprises we are familiar with today did not exist at that time. Hence, managing people and workload was not so complicated a matter.However, industrialisation saw the establishment of many large enterprises [...]

Managing Change and Free Will

By |2020-07-12T16:18:50+10:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: Managing Change, Uncategorized|

When you’re managing change it’s obviously best if stakeholders want to follow you of their own free will, rather than being dragged into change against their will. The question is, how do you get people to want to do what they ultimately have to do? Some people may question whether people really do have free will. I am not one of them, so let’s assume they do. What is free will? But when we speak of free will, we [...]

Change Management Toolkit Benefits

By |2020-03-11T20:04:16+10:00January 29th, 2020|Categories: Managing Change|

BENEFITS Based on best-practice change management processes Leverages the natural structure and flow of the change process Guides you through each step of the change process Helps you ask the right questions at each step of the process Practical Easy-to-use Scaleable Apply to any change project Copy and use the toolkit for different change projects Based on 20 years of research and development BENEFITS Based on best-practice change management processes Leverages the natural structure and flow of the change [...]

How to Predict the Future

By |2019-12-07T19:52:53+10:00December 7th, 2019|Categories: Change Fitness, Change Readiness, Managing Change, The Change Gym|

How useful would it be if you could predict with pinpoint accuracy what will happen in the future? Imagine you could accurately predict the performance of a coaching client over a given time period. Or suppose you could accurately predict how effective any given organisational change approach would be in the long-term. If you could make those kinds of predictions, you’d have a lot of influence over the future. But is it remotely possible? How confident can you be [...]