Posts Tagged: Change Management

Career, Communications, Employee Experience, Learning, Well-Being

Chameleon or Badger? Adapting to Change

When it comes to change, we’re all a bit chameleon and a bit badger: Some of us embrace change and others resist it. But the healthiest strategy is to balance the two approaches. Here are tips on doing that.

Communications, Employee Experience, Human Resources, Leadership, Project Management

When Resistance Meets Resistance – the Change Leader Trap

Feedback about a new approach isn’t always resistance — but resistance is always feedback.

IT Modernization, Leadership, Tech

Knowing When, Where and How to Modernize

Modernization can be a game-changer for government, but there are unique challenges in the public sector. Here’s how one innovator manages the change.

Employee Experience, Leadership

One Way to Mitigate Resistance to Change? Ask, Don’t Tell!

One of the most powerful and inexpensive ways to mitigate resistance to change is by getting stakeholder input early on, and often. Listen to people who will be most affected.

Career, Communications, Employee Experience, Leadership, Learning, Well-Being

The Importance of Looking Up

Effective change leaders look up often and share what they see “out there” with their teams to inspire a culture of insight and innovation.

Communications, Leadership, Learning, Project Management

Anatomy of a Message … or: What to Say During Times of Change?     

Change can be difficult for leaders at all levels to discuss with their teams. What helps? Clear, honest conversations about what will happen, why, who the change affects, and how.

Communications, Innovation, Leadership, Project Management

Caution, Change Leaders!  Beware of Catch Phrases

What’s consistently proven to be untrue? That to create change in an organization, leaders must “get buy-in” and “overcome resistance” in order to “drive adoption.”

Innovation, Leadership, Project Management

Habit #4: Make Good Choices

Sometimes what’s intended to improve productivity slows things down instead. Here’s how to avoid those mistakes and make changes that really help.

Cloud

Why Modernization Means More Than You Think

To be successful, any modernization project must address not just the technology but the processes and people.

Analytics, Big Data, IT Modernization, Tech

Pittsburgh Learns How to Govern Its Data

When Pittsburg failed to get certification from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Certification Program, the city dusted itself off and worked hard to change its entire data mindset. Here’s how they did it.