Mastering Leadership through Experience leadership Jun 28, 2024

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 ...

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What Does Change Success Look Like? change May 24, 2024

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 ...

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How to tell if you need a Mentor? people management Apr 26, 2024

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...

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The Rules for Doing Change Well change Apr 19, 2024

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...

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Top 8 steps you need to take for a change initiative change management Mar 15, 2024

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 ...

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The 7 keys to make change effective 12pivotpoints management Feb 09, 2024

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...

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The Change Manager - Role and Responsibilities change management Nov 15, 2023

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...

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Sponsorships in Change Initiatives change change management Oct 31, 2023

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...

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The world is in turmoil. Discover the ONE solution that works with our clients. management Oct 18, 2023

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...

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A Leader's Ego: Constructive or destructive? leadership Sep 22, 2023

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, your ego is “your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability.”[1]

In psychoanalytic terms, the ego attempts to achieve one’s hidden desires within the demands of the real world.

These two dimensions are important for a...

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PP3 - 12 Steps to help you reach your goals and build your business 12pivotpoints decision making Sep 15, 2023

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...

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A Leader's Personal Moral, Ethics and Principles leadership Sep 08, 2023

In a previous article, we discussed the “inner” and personal values of all people, and specifically of leaders, and of the impact that these “inner” subjectivities can have on a leader’s journey.

When the leader exposes their values to the organisation, they establish or at least affect, the way th...

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