A Conversation with Janice Gair
This month, Janice Gair and I chat about the importance of emotional intelligence. We discuss the role it plays in organizations and your employees productivity.
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A Conversation with David Zinger
Our first guest on our Conversation on Change Series is expert David Zinger. We discuss the importance of employee engagement. If you’re already a member of our community, you can log-in to view. Not a member? That’s okay! Signing up is free and easy.
Why Leaders Need to Stop Doing Change Management
“You don’t do yoga.” That’s what I heard the yoga instructor say as he was telling me to raise my legs higher. “You’re right about that,” I thought as I fell into a heap on my yoga mat. “You don’t do yoga,” he said, “you practice yoga.”
That’s when it hit me: it’s the same when it comes to organizational change. It’s not about doing change management. Change management, or rather change leadership, isn’t just another task on your to do list, nor should it be. Instead, it needs to be viewed as a component of your practice. In the same way lawyers or doctors don’t do law or medicine—they practice.
Why CEO’s optimism and enthusiasm for change can sabotage an organization’s success
Every CEO I have met tells me they like change. They are enthusiastic and optimistic about the changes they have launched in their organization. Ironically, it can be this optimism and enthusiasm that increases the risk your change efforts will fail to achieve their desired result.
The good, the bad, the ugly. Your employees remember it all
You have heard the statistics, 50-70% of organizational change initiatives fail. Your organization is facing big changes, and you don’t want it to become just another statistic. So, you decide this time it’s going to be different. You send your managers and leaders for change management training, adopt a change management methodology. You think, I’ve done my part. Now things will be different.
