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Of Change Agents, Best Practice and Next Practice
With much excitement, I recently became a member of Change Agents WorldWide (CAWW). There’s a number of “tribes” that I belong to professionally – IABC, the Change Management Professionals (meetups)...
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As I learn so do I teach: 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duaneschoon/4530185934/ . .. as I teach so do I learn (Iyanla Vanzant) Last week I had the pleasure of starting a change management subject with the Municipal Association...
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As I teach, so do I learn: 2
The right change tool for the job. by Kate Siebert and Sharon Buck This week’s post is the second in a series of collaborative learning reflections from Grad Dip of Management that I am teaching at...
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As I teach, so do I learn: Flux
Inspired by Simon Terry’s Orderly Processions are Over, the MAV Grad Dip Cohort crafted their own post on the tension between change and stability. Change makes me nervous and anxious,...
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#wolweek14
http://simonterry.tumblr.com/post/88422472634/value-is-a-fractal I experimented with #wolweek this year. It was kinda cool. It feels like a useful “tool” in the kitbag, perhaps not one I will use all...
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2015 Conferences – on the horizon of change
Recently I asked the question on the Organizational Change Practitioners Linkedin Group about what the quality professional development opportunities are for experienced change managers in 2015....
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Help! I’ve been made a change manager, where do I start…
Change Management continues to be a profession that attracts people from many diverse fields for either unintended or deliberate career changes. I am often asked “how do I get into change management”...
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Design Thinking
I’ve been working recently in an organisation where the new CEO is speaking a lot about the importance of Design Thinking. Design thinking is a human-centered, prototype-driven process for innovation...
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How do you measure change success?
So one of my most “popular” posts is the “70% change fails: Bollocks” – in it I argue that change is way too complex to measure by simple binary “did it succeed? – yes / no at a single point in...
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Agile change management?
What do change managers do who work agile principles? So I’m at Agile Australia* at the moment. Agile continues to be a growth trend for organisational change practitioners with companies and clients...
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The temporality of change
I’ve been thinking a lot about the temporality of change and wondering if we pay it enough attention. When we look back, in hindsight, we can recognise the legacy of past change, and hopefully learn...
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Continuous change and the cloud
Does the uptake of cloud based systems change drive a continuous change culture… Or do you need to have a culture of continuous change to see the true benefits of cloud based systems? It’s curious...
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2015: A professional year in review
It’s funny. Every-time I go to start a Professional Year in Review post, I wanted to start with “Wow, that was a big year”. And in reality, what year isn’t? When you abstract yourself to the higher...
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The Surrender Trinity
Many of you know I have been working on how the concept of “Surrender” fits into workplace change. My interest in the idea arose when I experienced “stuckness” or perhaps...
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Offering role clarity in change management?
What change role do you fill? Role clarity is so important. Earlier this month an article appeared in Forbes magazine provocatively titled “Don’t be a change agent, and don’t hire one”, by Liz Ryan. I...
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Translating ‘agile’ for communicators
Agile is a story of snowballing “Corporate Australia wants you to know it’s agile” says the heading in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review (AFR). Such poetic timing – I read the article as I was...
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Of myth busting, babies and bathwater
Of Myths, Babies and Bathwater Back in September 2013 I wrote a myth busting post about the commonly used statement “70% of Change Management projects fail”. It received a strong positive response from...
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10 Change Management tweeps to follow
@jenfrahm Twitter you’ve changed. What’s seems like eons ago, I posted on my first 100 days of Twitter. It was actually in February, 2009. Reflecting back on that, it seems like so much has changed...
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We need to talk about Agile OCM!
My fellow organisational change practitioners, we need to talk… Last week fellow change manager Nick Martin and I presented at Agile Australia on Translating OCM for the Agile community. The talk came...
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On change receptivity
About 12 years I ago I finished my PhD studies in organisations that undergo continuous change. As is the case with every doctoral student there is usually a whole raft of stuff that you are...
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