How we work Our initial meeting will be an introduction to build a general understanding of your needs and how we might be able to help you. This meeting is free of change.People are often referred to us because they experience some problems around organisational change and/or change leadership, but they may not always know why these problems occur. So, if you decide to engage us, we will want to build up an understanding of what lies behind the problems. [...]
Leading Successful Change By Dr Steve Barlow Every leader wants to be successful. Many leaders look and act successful on the outside. Many also lay awake at night – worried about those cracks in their armour. When it comes to change, around 70% of leaders are not as successful as they would like to be. It helps to have other people to blame, and other people certainly play their part. Change is almost never executed to perfection, and stakeholders [...]
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 [...]
We often think of the culture of an organisation as ‘the way we do things around here’ or ‘the way things are’. Culture seems to convey some sort of reality – the reality of how things are.One possibility among manyBut just think for a moment about ‘how things are’. Sure, what we see around us in the organisation is, indeed, how things are. But how they are is not the only available option of how things could be.Think about shopping. [...]
Hi, I’m Steve Barlow, a Director of The Change Gym.I want to help you understand what we do as a company and how we may be able to help you. So, let me tell you a little of our story.The Change Gym grew out of some work I was doing over a decade ago. I had been working in the NSW correctional system running programs to help inmates engage in positive personal change. Over a period of 7 years I [...]
Marketing & Sales: The Secret of the Stories This is the second article in a 3-part series on marketing and sales, taken from the perspective of change and change readiness. In the first article, we considered that the two steps of the marketing and sales process and the goals of each step. In this article, we examine how to use communication to move a prospect towards becoming your client.In the previous article, we considered the imperative to move prospects into [...]
We are a team of change specialists helping organisations and individuals build more capacity to succeed at the change process. For your organisation to become more agile and successful at change, you should develop your change readiness.Change readiness is a major factor in the success or failure of change projects. It influences how much engagement or resistance you encounter and whether you are likely to be successful. Change readiness has an inner and outer dimension. The inner refers to the psychological [...]
LIVE TRAINING RESISTANCE TO READINESS This live 1-day training is delivered online or onsite. Discover why resistance to change occurs and how you can turn resistance into readiness. Build engagement and succeed at change. LEARN MORE >> APPLYING CHANGE READINESS This live 1-day training is delivered online or onsite. This training follows on from Resistance to Readiness and examines a practical change readiness model and tools to make it work.
What’s the Problem with Organisational Change? If you lived one hundred years ago and you asked, “What’s the problem with organisational change?”, a good answer would have been, “We have no scientific understanding of what to do.” Since those days, countless books, articles, courses, programs, and experts have come along telling essentially the same message – research tells us there is a right way to manage change in organisations. We have had this knowledge since the 1930’s and [...]
Linda came to me after a successful career in the corporate world. She was facing a period of change in her life and she was a little nervous about it. She needed some help on a personal level, and she thought the PCFP (Personal Change Fitness Program) would help professionally as she moved into the next phase of her life. Linda took the initial change fitness assessment and her change fitness scores were at the higher end of [...]