Manage the Transition to Your New Job

Consultants are often involved in a change in job assignments. Some jobs take more time then others. Some consultant have different assignments at the same time, but a new assignment always brings a introduction period with it. Not only consultants, but everyone involved in a job switch will be faced with such a transition. How should you handle such a period?

Change Management Reversals; Are They Possible

Many change management specialists and many of those professors in academia explain exactly what should happen after change management occurs. For instance they dive into the psychological issues behind change management and the dropping of the ball of executives due to change.

Rumour is Like the SARS Virus, It Can Spread by Mouth, by Phone

Troubled companies are often plagued with negative unverified information, otherwise called rumour mongering. This is extremely unhealthy and can be deadly and infectious like the dreaded Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus. Misinformation and rumour are very dangerous for companies.

Recovery and Strengthening - Long Term Programs to Sustaining Good Financial Health

Once a company has come out of the ‘intensive care’ stage, it is of paramount importance that it can continue to nurse itself to health through long-term programs in recovery and strengthening.

In Times Of Trouble, Do Not Become Schizophrenic But Let Your Focus Be Emphatic

Schizophrenic patients suffer split personalities, characterised by withdrawal from reality and behavioural disturbances. Management needs to have very sharp and emphatic focus rather than become schizophrenic.

Criticism Gets You No Where

Any one can criticize, condemn and complain. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. It is also a much smarter way to live. Read about ways that are more effective since they lead to more solutions, improvement and change than any amount of criticism could ever do.

Changes, How to Make Them

Change can be good or it can be bad, change of any kind good or bad has an effect on individuals. The challenge is how do we make changes without creating stress in the work place.

Silence Worth $15 million

Knowing what to change is not enough. You need to get the owners of the problem to find it for themselves. Here is a story to illustrate.

People Like Change

I've often heard it said that People Don't Like Change. But is this really true? If it were true, wouldn’t we still be hunter gatherers, eking out a nomadic existence?

The Power of Habit

We are all creatures of habit, whether we like it or not. Even though our habits often keep us in our comfort zone instead of reaching our goals, habits per se are not necessarily bad. Without habits, we would have to make conscious decisions at every turn.

How You View Change Is How You Do Change - Part One

In 1971, Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shook the world. Toffler predicted that “millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future . . . many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time.” Thirty-five years later, we can say that Toffler has been proven correct in this assertion. And the ‘incessant demand for change’ continues unabated while the ‘painfulness in trying to keep up’ afflicts more and more people throughout the world.

Put An End To Committees!

Committees have been the bane of management almost from the beginning of time. Like a number of other things in our world, you can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t live without ‘em, right?. Not so fast, friend. There may actually be a way to rid the business world of committees, once and for all.

Managers Aren't Always Leaders

Talk to a manager at almost any level – office, factory, service crew – and most will say they are a leader. And well they may be, though most often only within their particular work group. Few are leaders on any larger scale. Few, in fact, may have what it takes to be a leader. But that doesn't mean they can't learn.

Learn Your PROTOCOLS

Organisations looking to implement improvement often fail to achieve the results they are looking for - yet when you analyse the reasons why their improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma etc) fail, it can normally be traced back to one of nine reasons - and this article tells you how!

Beware of the Top 20 Costly Mistakes, Even One Could Cost You Your Business

How to avoid the top 20 most common incorporation mistakes.