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Managing Change Initiatives

Convert Resisters to Champions

A key success factor in managing change initiatives is to convert resisters to champions. You can’t convert everyone – some will just continue to resist until eventually they decide to leave the organization. But you can create a number of them. Those you convert will eventually get a number of others […]

Hey! You’re Stealing My Idea – Part II

A client’s story

Read Part I of our story.

In this part of the story, we’ll share a bit around what’s going wrong and how it might be corrected for future innovation meetings. The premise behind monthly innovation meetings is a good one! Provide a forum for employees from throughout the organization to get together […]

Hey! You’re Stealing My Idea – Part I

A client’s story

I was talking to a client a number of months ago who wanted to know what could be done to enable for more collaboration and sharing in the organization. In particular, he shared with me that the company had, about six months prior to our conversation, implemented a monthly innovation meeting. The […]

Change is Ahead!

Is the organization ready?

For this article, let’s focus on changes that are upcoming in an organization that the organization knows about.

Too often senior leaders know about changes that will have to happen in the organization, but do not share that information early enough. To be fair, some sharing cannot happen immediately as the […]

Brainstorming Sessions: The Facilitator’s Role

The facilitator role is a key role in brainstorming sessions. A strong facilitator is necessary to bring out ideas and keep the session moving forward and the participants focused. The facilitator does not participate in the session.

The facilitator of brainstorming sessions has the following responsibilities:

Keep the ideas flowing from participants in the session […]