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There is a much repeated statement in business at the moment that 70% of change management projects fail.
Wow!
If after all this time and focus on managing change projects as still 70% failure, what’s going on?
I teach a session for various corporate clients on implementing change, and I’ve seen this statistic quite a bit, and I’m revising an upcoming session and looking for a motivator to get people to pay attention to the session.… Read more
Losing a great employee is a terrible thing.
Form a Bosses perspective there’s the time and expense of finding, engaging, and training the replacement. There’s the uncertainty of how the new employee will work out. There’s the hardship on yourself and the rest of your team until the position can be filled. There’s the teams uncertainty if the new hire will succeed and work within the team.… Read more
So i was thinking, each of these tools and models has a use, and typically one understands the model and then applies the model in their work.
But as I’m assisting people learn new techniques and models I typically ask them to consider 5 further questions about what they are doing.
This is the second answer to my 5 most important questions session.… Read more
Actually I wasn’t thinking of that sort of model, but they could assist in your business too.
What I mean is last week, I introduced you to a behaviour change model proposed by B.J. Fogg of Stanford University.
In, and of itself, this model is very useful to assist you to understand how you can influence people to change their behaviour and to eventually buy your product.… Read more
There is a whole literature about success being born from failure.
And, yes, in essence I agree with this big idea; that only through testing yourself and accepting that your testing could produce failures, can you create a successful business, strategy, approach, career etc.
As a new General Manager, you’ll be counselled by your HR team to be tolerant of failure, to support failure, to even encourage failure as a means to speed success.… Read more