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Change Tools & Methodology
Change is precipitated by external and internal events; organizational and personal change are inextricably linked. With the right change management tools and support, people move more quickly and easily through transitions - minimizing productivity loss.
Organizational Change (3 Tools | 10 Articles)
Personal Change (3 Tools | 13 Articles)
Change Tools & Methodology: Organizational Change
Tools
Stakeholder Analysis
To succeed, change initiatives need sponsors within the organization. This process outlines the steps to get vital buy in.
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Organizational Change Overview
Understanding factors that close the gap in performance allows leaders to approach change as a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Change Readiness Diagnostic
Pinpoint vulnerabilities that could threaten your change initiative, and develop plans to overcome them.
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Articles
Learning: Your Suppleness Quotient
Just as physical suppleness keeps our bodies young, an organization’s suppleness is critical to creating and maintaining a learning culture.
Learning 2: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Research shows that periods of intense learning must be punctuated by play and reflection to yield truly transformational results.
Thinking Strategically
A continual process of invention and refinement can propel companies toward current goals and build capabilities that lead to even more accomplishment. Less-than-obvious elements comprise "thinking strategically."
Stage Fright
What the actor’s craft teaches us about business presentations. Research in neuroscience, as explored in recent books, underscores our understanding of how human functioning plays out in effective leadership.
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
Sponsorship of leadership development programs by senior executives helps align corporate strategy in many ways. Key actions and issues emerge from the experience of Prescient clients.
Mind-Set
What we often call corporate culture is the sum total of behaviors stemming from a collective 'mind-print' that makes each company unique. A growing sense that the name of a company no longer fits sometimes indicates need for an internal shift, a change in mind-set.
Laughing Matters
The mood at most companies - tension, stress, ill will - works against productivity. Humor helps break negative patterns.
There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men
Understanding the human dimension is what sets apart great companies from good ones. A helpful way to elucidate intangible performance variables.
How We Change
Applying principles of thought, which can only be expressed individual, can ease the process of changing a collective enterprise.
Illuminating
Culture happens – here’s how to choose the one you want
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Change Tools & Methodology: Personal Change
Tools
Reflective Listening
How you listen can be as important as what you hear. Reflective listening enables insights and creativity.
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Changing Stress
A shift in thinking is key to manage stress and to avoid it. A look at cutting-edge research is complemented by easy exercises.
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Personal Change Overview
Every organizational transition must link to personal change. Accompli focuses on a "Results Pathway" - highlighting the root of real transformation
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Articles
Anger: The Enemy Within
Be mindful of the feelings that ignite destructive behaviors.
Patience: Not for Sissies
The deliberate and reflective path is often the fastest way to our destination.
Talking in the Dark
Technology helps us plug in, but are we really connecting? Rather than a machine, rapport requires listening that respects each person's thinking.
Ambiguity
The discomfort that stems from the effort to accommodate apparent dissonance can actually assist group dynamics. Taken as a warning flag that something is amiss in the thinking of individuals or of the group, ambiguity can remind us to support open-minded inquiry that can lead to resolution.
Change
Most people assume that change has to be difficult. But it can be as simple as having a different thought, and then choosing to act on it.
Normalization of Deviance
Most corporate wrecks are caused by a small error in judgment that is magnified through a cascading sequence of decisions and actions. Avoid them by challenging assumptions and by ensuring that integrity guides decisions.
Performance Edge
Top organizations are "hard-edged" about where they are going but "soft-hearted' about how they manage the journey. How to manage three key "soft-hearted" factors.
What Ships Are Built For
The key to navigating transitions is the ability to watch for hidden assumptions that distract from the real work of the moment. Lessons from childhood transitions can help prevent change initiatives from foundering.
ThouLOSTght (Lost in Thought)
Some people contend that shows how seriously we take an issue, and that anger is motivating. But both actually divert attention and energy from the business at hand.
Being Present at Your Own Life
Recognizing that the distractions that can keep managers out of the zone are habits of thought leads to the kind of patience that enhances productivity.
The $400 Million Hike
The route to success is a thinking path that highlights confidence and clarity.
The Incredible Lightness of Being Focused
The 80/20 rule applies to careers: our most significant accomplishments result from just a few decisions or actions. How to stay focused on the essential.
Think!
Many of us are unknowingly trapped by sensory input/output or within the confines of memories and experiences. Paying more attention to our thinking promotes greater joy and creativity at work.
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