He had all the aspirations of a normal boy. He wanted to play football, though not the American version. He wanted to have a career. He wanted to get married someday, and he didn’t have any advantages to help him. As it turned out, he achieved a great deal more. At 19, he began his […]
Self-awareness has been identified as a cornerstone of leadership success. No leader is equally strong in all areas, and characteristics that were strengths yesterday may actually impede progress tomorrow. You need to know where you are strong and where you need development. It is important for leaders to look objectively at their particular competency profiles […]
Our other article on Strategies for Managing Resistance to Change explained the four types of resistance and the six classic strategies for dealing with resistance. It was based on the fundamental research conducted by Kotter & Schlesinger back in the late 80s. As a complement to those theory-based strategies, below are nine techniques for overcoming […]
Changing people’s behaviors can be done in one of two ways, generally speaking. You can force behavior change through management decree or you can change the mindsets of people so that their thinking results in new desired behaviors. We have seen both approaches used by leaders at different organizations. Not surprisingly, altering mindsets is more […]
Stakeholder prioritization is one of the fundamental building blocks to a successful organizational change strategy. Too often, though, project teams get the stakeholder prioritization step wrong. Two of the most common stakeholder prioritization pitfalls are Prioritizing stakeholders based on the wrong assessment criteria Prioritizing stakeholders based upon input from too few people To clarify, in […]
Stakeholder resistance, if it gains a foothold on a large scale, can threaten to derail even the most positive change effort. There are four primary reasons1 that people resist change. Once you know what types to look for, you will be better equipped to spot change resistance in your organization. After you have identified the […]
Jesse Jacoby
