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...

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...

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...

A change initiative generally evolves through a number of phases.

PHASE 1: THE NEED

Someone (inside or outside of the organization) identifies that things are not as they should be or could be and that something needs to be done to better align the issue, function, process, or outcomes.

PHASE ...

The Environment of Change

The management of change environment covers a number of key dimensions. Each of these dimensions has the ability to enable more effective transformation (change) or, in its absence, seriously compromise a change initiative.

These environments (or “influencers”) are critic...

The Change Manager

A change manager is the person responsible within a project in managing the people-related requirements and impacts of the change and normally reports to a project manager or program manager.

The change manager helps projects meet the objectives of the organization, project, bud...

According to the Project Management Institute’s The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, the sponsor “is the person or group [of people] that provides the financial resources, in cash or in kind, for the Project.”

As defined by Wikipedia.com, “The Project Sponsor will be a senior ex...

The world is in turmoil.

We are living through major pressures for change – pressures that are forcing us to move us away from what we know and what we are experienced in dealing with, and into an unsure and riskier place.

These pressures include geo-political instability, the pandemic, labour shortag...

Let's discover the Pivot-Point number 3: the market

Owners (or the proxied corporation) choose the broad environment (market) in which to participate in order to extract the benefit sought by owners.

This doesn’t imply that these choices are always correct. Sometimes decisions to embark into new m...

You know the predictions for your industry and you know the importance of both excellence in execution and a growing need for digitisation.

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