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How to Rapidly Transform a Group to a High-Performance Team

Whether a group people working together becomes a team depends on what happens during and after the group is formed.

Reduce the Uncertainty of Change With This One Simple Step

One of the shows I used to like on the food network was Restaurant Makeover. The premise of the show was simple. A restaurant owner puts up half of the money to makeover her restaurant. The show puts up the other half of the money.

But there’s a catch. To get the show’s half of the money the owner must give full control to the designer and his crew.

What do Organizational Change and Curling have in Common?

Four Keys to Becoming a World Champion Curler and Successful Organizational Change

Speaking to the Certified Management Consultants of Manitoba Jeff Stoughton the 2011 World Curling Champion described the exhilaration as he made the winning shot and reach his goal of becoming the best curler in the world.  He credited his success to four key things, preparation, trust, belief and support.  These same keys are also important to remember when facilitating organizational change. Read more

Change Management is not Training Supersized

Organizational Change: Seeing Through the Disorder to Achieve a New Order

Help, my organizational change is not going as planned. Even well planned organizational change initiative can feel messy when you are in the middle of the transition. Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science said, “that it is only with disorder that we can find the new order.”  Your ability to use the […]