Research indicates that team debriefs a 20-25% average improvement in performance — if you do them right. We discuss how, in this article.
Read moreIs staff input necessary for successful organizational change?
Engaging employees in the organizational change decision is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. It’s essential to design participation to match your organizational culture and the change you’rere implementing.
Read moreDemystifying Change Management
Although research on change has not yielded a definitive way forward, the keys to effective change management may not be that mysterious after all.
Read moreChange Implementation Quality: The difference between doing and achieving.
Are you just doing stuff, or actually achieving results with your implementation? In this post, we review the difference between implementation and quality implementation.
Read moreData & Decision-Making: A match made in heaven or….?
How do we create a more harmonious marriage between intuition and data in our decision-making practices? What does it really take to effectively use data to improve our projects and our operations? Includes a series of reflection questions to help you better understand how you currently use data and analytics in your work, and where you may want to focus in the future.
Read moreLessons for change leaders from the Flint water crisis
The big learning from the Flint crisis is that it was not inevitable, as is often the case with large-scale failure. The opportunity is to identify where and how the trajectory could have been changed and to actively integrate that learning into our own implementation management practices.
Read moreTHE INTEGRATOR: An essential role in successful implementation.
Successful implementation efforts often require people with differing interests to cooperate in order to create a shared benefit. Integration is how you make that cooperation happen.
Read moreHow can I be more clear?
The ability to clearly formulate and express ideas is critical to successful implementation efforts. If you weren't born with it, how do you develop it? I've identified five common practices and one overarching truth about achieving clarity. If you can accept this truth — Clarity takes effort — then the five practices outlined in this post should help you.
Read moreWayfinding tips for Change Managers
Through recent experiences hiking in the California desert, I've learned a lot about being lost and finding my way again. These wayfinding lessons have proven to be useful in areas of my life beyond hiking — including my work in strategic change. If you find yourself leading an organizational change that’s gotten off course, these tips may be just what you need to get back on track.
Read moreWhy WOULDN'T you use evidence?
For me, the most compelling argument for evidence-based management involves a shared responsibility to make work better. My experience is that we CAN make it a lot better, just by putting in a bit more effort upfront. So perhaps the question isn’t why to use evidence, it’s why in the world wouldn’t you?
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