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Design Thinking for Strong Change Management

Design Thinking is a value add to change management

     Design thinking is a problem-solving approach based on empathizing with the user, defining the problem, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing. Applied to organizational change management, design thinking can help leaders understand the needs and concerns of employees affected by…...

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Winners and Losers: Changing Perceptions of Change Risk

Winners and losers in changes can change over time as can their (self-)perception of their risk. That shapes success or failure.

Introduction      Organizational change, with grand promises of innovation, growth, and increased efficiency, often fails to deliver the desired outcomes. That’s just fact. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, though, certain individuals and groups are winners. Others maybe not so much.…...

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People Resist Change That Affects Their Self-Identity

People resist change that threatens self-identity, self-conception, and status.

No. 3 in a series about Change Resistance      Resistance to organizational change is what makes change managers and change leaders necessary. Dealing with resistance is the essence of the job.      There are, of course, literally infinite reasons for…...

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Lean Change Management (or is it Agile?)

Lean Change Management is similar to Agile or Lean Startup in principle

     The idea of “Lean Change Management” or “the Lean Change Manager” (LCM) is out there. An approach that emphasizes flexibility, experimentation, and collaboration, it is apparently more responsive to feedback, more adaptive to changing circumstances, and more focused on…...

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5 Rules of Effective Change Communication

Communication sleight-of-hand in magic, mentalism, or politics owes its success to being aligned with psychological principles.

These are not my only rules for effective communication with stakeholders. Communications experts will have others and may suggest these are unimportant. They’re wrong, probably because they don’t understand how people think.      For magicians, con artists, psychics, and mentalists…...

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