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Is your business change-enabled?

Is your business change-enabled?

8 Jul 2021 | Change management, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Change is tough We all know that changing organisations is tough, right? Organisations are complex systems and, whilst I’m always prepared to argue the case that people don’t resist change, I know that systems do. There’s still a lot of top-down planning for change...
Let’s make all meetings optional!

Let’s make all meetings optional!

25 Aug 2020 | Change management, Culture, Management | 0 comments

It’s official – most meetings are a waste of time and money According to research in 2018*, the average SME employee attended 207 meetings every year, of which 139 (67 per cent) were considered a waste of time as they didn’t achieve the goal set. The same...
How to eliminate the bureaucracy that’s inhibiting your business’s adaptability

How to eliminate the bureaucracy that’s inhibiting your business’s adaptability

11 Mar 2020 | Change management, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Management, Productivity | 0 comments

My last blog challenged leaders to stop hierarchy and bureaucracy holding their companies back in 2020. I also promised to provide some advice about how to overcome it, so this is the first of a series of articles addressing that challenge and providing advice about...
Change management is changing

Change management is changing

27 Jun 2018 | Change management, Culture, Innovation | 0 comments

To be more successful, change cannot always be led from the top of an organisation. To respond to change quickly and effectively the way organisations change itself needs to change. I recently spoke at a conference on Growth through Transformation, where I contested...
How to ensure your change initiatives deliver

How to ensure your change initiatives deliver

29 Jul 2016 | Change management, Culture, Leadership, Management | 0 comments

Have you ever wondered why, in spite of your best intentions and all of the evidence that they can make a huge different to a business’s results, the great initiatives you put in place to enhance the performance and happiness of your workforce don’t deliver the...

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