We regularly deliver insightful and thought-provoking webinars for senior executives in order to help them reach their goals.

You may be wondering about the connection between Robin Speculand’s Strategy Implementation webinar and the critical 12 Pivot-Points methodology that is Advisory & Mentoring...

Extract from the book by Cenred Harmsworth and Dr Jack Jacoby, Managing Change Initiatives
Available in Hard Back, Soft Back and eBook from Amazon

DEFINITION AND OVERVIEW

Preparing for change is the assessment, consideration, and preparation an organization makes before the change process actually ...

The general understanding of the term “maturity” is of a person behaving emotionally and mentally as would an adult, and immaturity is behaving as an adult wouldn’t.

Based on the people we have known during our lives, it would be hard to convince us that all leaders are mature, even though they may...

When talking with the shareholders and directors of major corporations, it is increasingly common to hear them talk of the difficulty they experience in maintaining control over their corporations and, more importantly, ensuring that the corporation delivers that which is expected of it by its owner...

Project governance refers to the management framework in which the project will be “held accountable” to the authority of the organization.

Some people say that governance is the way decisions are made. In reality, it’s more about the way in-project decisions are reviewed and authorized to ensure:

You have probably never seen a real and legitimate successful leader look away from you when they’re talking to you, blow their nose on a napkin, talk through someone’s speech, wipe their nose on their sleeve, wear jeans to a formal meeting, forget peoples’ names, or other such unpleasant behaviours...

What has 40-years of helping corporations and organisations taught us?

We have learned that there are 12 Pivot-Points in every organisation that must be conquered to satisfy that organisation’s objectives. Failure in any of these Pivot-Points will compromise objectives and may even cause failure.

Thi...

We are all familiar with the stories about very successful people without any or with minimal education who created their fame and fortune by making intuitive decisions that have served them well.

Stories of retailers or factory owners, for example, who started with one store or one factory which g...

An organisation will appoint a leader who can demonstrate to the board their capability for a particular organisational context defined by that board.

For example, an organisation in start-up mode will seek a leader with experience in start-up organisations. An organisation in a mature environment ...

Ask yourself a few questions.

• How successful have your change initiatives been?
• Have you delivered all that was intended by the change?
• How supportive were staff and impacted stakeholders?
• How much push-back did you get?
• Did you deliver to time and budget?

If you apply all the appropriate ...

People often assume that leaders automatically come up with the right answers because of the position they hold. The thought is that “they wouldn’t be leaders if they didn’t come up with the right solutions most of the time.”
One would like to think so, but the reality is different.

The leader of a...

It has been frequently demonstrated that a transformation, program, project, or process improvement activity will stand a far greater chance of success if people know what is going on.

Specifically, that people involved in, or impacted by the change, should know the following regarding the change p...