Change Management
Get your employees to become masters of self-directed change and supercharge your company
- Published on 8 Oct 2013
- Lia Marus
We have a lot of lost potential in our organisations. It is believed that if you direct focus at elements such as your company’s strategy, structures, products, processes and systems you will be able to achieve the results you want in your organisation. However, says Helene Vermaak - clinical psychologist, co-owner and principal consultant of The Human Edge – this couldn’t be further from the truth.
How your DEEPEST FEARS sabotage your OPEN-MINDEDNESS
- Published on 11 Sep 2013
- Chris and Suzanne Styles
The wonderful news is that good change always brings about growth – something that you should remember when your employees are giving you uphill during a change in your company. Remember that fear and growth go hand in hand and that not every person, as they begin this change and growth process, makes it through to the triumphant end because their fears get in the way, sabotaging the desired end point. Why so? Because few people understand how the mind works or what impact severe thought changes have on the body. Let us explain more.
Doing change with you, not to you
- Published on 3 Sep 2013
- Alice van den Berg
One of the primary reasons why change management initiatives fail is that most are not integrated into the organisation’s overall practices and culture. Successful management initiatives align with, and embed themselves within, the DNA of the company, leveraging off existing role models, processes and communication platforms as far as possible. Here are some management lessons we learned from an organisation-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in the mining and manufacturing sectors.
Is there a magic formula for helping employees through change?
- Published on 30 Aug 2013
- Alice van den Berg
Just like change in your own personal life is not always easy, change within an organisation is not either as organisations house multi-faceted and unique people - your employees. These employees have their own views on how things should be done, and often think they know what is best for the organisation. There is certainly no magic formula for getting them to change at the same time, in the same way, to meet the same objective! However, you can be more successful with supporting them through change and achieving quick wins for your organisation.
3 key elements in ensuring successful strategy implementation
- Published on 26 Aug 2013
- Stephen Rothgiesser
For over a decade, my colleagues and I have been driven to understand why up to 70% of change initiatives either fail entirely, or fail to deliver on their intended ROI (John Kotter, 1995; McKinsey & Company, 2006).
