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Leading Change: Mindset’s methodology for designing success from Day One!

Moving to a shared service is fundamentally ‘transforming’ your internal back-of-house functions and therefore requires a change strategy that allows your organisation to design for success from Day One. Using the Mindset change methodology, we were able to provide attendees with useful insights in driving change as opposed to simply managing a project.

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Is the next evolution of Change Management better integration with Project Management?

Where major projects are concerned, experience dictates that change management needs to be clearly articulated at the outset to maximise success and ensure a smooth transition to the new mode of operation, rather than added in as an afterthought or at a secondary stage.

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The Change Strategy Rots from the Change Leader Down

It is sometimes uncomfortable to step back and reflect on the environment you create as a leader, however it is essential to understand your impact because people experience you from your behaviour and actions, not what you intend to say, think and feel.

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Strategic Change Consultants: Delivering the change you want to see

As a seasoned strategy professional with major corporates around the globe, I have long seen the opportunity to eliminate the failure of major strategic change projects. Despite being launched with commitment and energy from the top of organisations, and often with big name consultancy support; cost overrun, delay and performance shortfall have been the norm for well over a decade.

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What’s Your Strategic Zoom Set To?

When listening to an interview with Harvard Business School Professor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, I thought about the criticality of leaders having an ability to adjust their focus to think strategically when leading through change in organisations.

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Leading Change – Are you a source of clarity or confusion?

You can be the most organised individual on the planet but when it comes to prioritising the right things to focus on at the right time with limited resources... that's a different story.

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Leading Change – The Power of One

During a 360° feedback exercise that we completed with a client recently I was reminded of just how important it is for leaders and/or leadership teams to project or communicate the right message to their teams.

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Leading Change – Is the problem you?

There is certainly a lot going on right now. It’s like the race has started again for many organisations after spending a lot of time in the starting blocks. To cope with this, leaders need to be at their mental and physical best to ensure they can perform to the level that is demanded.

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Difficult Conversations: Talking about the elephant in the room

Don Holley talks about the necessity of having those 'difficult coversations' in team development exercises.

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