The Guided Conversation: Harnessing the Energy of Change

by Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD

Organizationally, conversation is often given a bad rap. For many organizational leaders, it symbolizes the informal and unstructured talking that employees engage in when they should be “working”. The reality, however, is that conversation is the backbone of every organization — especially during change. Change happens through conversation. Your change conversations can pull your organization together and rally its energy around your change or they can drain its collective energy and send your organization into a downward spiral. Read more

Is Managing Resistance to Change Limiting your Success with Organizational Change?

Managing Resistance To Change

Dr. Dawn Marie Turner CMC

One question leaders ask me is: How do I manage resistance to change? In my experience, too many leaders are spending too much time and energy trying to manage resistance to change. I believe it may actually be sabotaging their organizational change success.

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Four Elements for Sustainable Culture Change

By Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD

Transforming your organization’s culture can reap many benefits and improve organizational performance. But it is not for the faint of heart and it is not a quick fix solution.

Whether it is the current economic climate, the shifting political landscape or just the ever-increasing pace of change in today’s world, business leaders are taking a fresh look at how their current organizational culture needs to change to enable success. One study found that almost 90 percent of organizations were either experiencing or had experienced some type of cultural change. Read more

The Bottom Line of Organizational Change

by Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD

Successful Change Begins with a Destination

You know the importance of the bottom line when it comes to your organization’s financial viability — but what about when it comes to change… do you know your bottom line? Successfully implementing and sustaining change in an organization needs a bottom line – an “Intended Outcome Statement” is your change bottom line. John Maxwell in his book “Thinking for a Change” states “if you are only thinking about your bottom line as financial you may be missing opportunities critical to your organization.”

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Change management & today’s global economy – a critical partnership

Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD

Seven billion dollar rescue plans. Mortgage crisis. Rising energy costs. These are just some of the huge challenges currently facing the global economy. Recently a salesperson at a large document management company in Minnesota, after determining that unfortunately we didn’t need his services, felt his entire country needed Turner Change Management! Read more