At warp speed, the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 has taught us many lessons. A key pandemic lesson for businesses across the globe should be the importance … Read more
The Metamorphosis of Becoming Innovative
Change can be beautiful; butterflies are the greatest proof of this. — Matshona Dhliwayo Today, enterprises need to adopt certain key strategies to … Read more
Why Organizational Change Fails
An astonishing 75% of organizational change initiatives either fail outright or don’t achieve desired objectives, according to research. The cost of a … Read more
A New Way of Achieving Organizational Development Change
Progressive organizations routinely look for an edge over the competition to enable increased market share, fertile revenue streams and sustainable growth. … Read more
Executives Need Help Coping With Corporate Change
Numerous books and articles have examined how leaders can effectively drive change in their organizations. It’s commonly assumed that during these major … Read more
Leaders Have to Coach Their Way to Digital Transformation
The advancement of the Internet over the past two decades hasn’t taught us anything if it hasn’t taught us that we must run our organizations differently … Read more
Change Begins With the ‘First Follower’
Before I co-founded a company to help HR and people leaders transform their businesses, I was a consumer marketer – both agency and client-side – crafting … Read more
Successful Digital Transformation Takes Planning, Training and Transparency
We come across the topic of digital transformation or digitalization in countless conferences and professional articles. Hopefully, no one needs an … Read more
Leverage the ‘IKEA Effect’ For a Successful Program Launch
The IKEA Effect is a cognitive bias that describes a fascinating human behavior. The effect was first identified and described in the Journal of Consumer … Read more
Change Happens One Person At a Time
Hanlon’s Paradox states that the stress caused by change reduces our ability to cope with change. At the very moment we need to be open to new ideas and … Read more
Embrace Change and Make It Work For You
Most of us recognize that the pace (and magnitude) of change has dramatically increased over the last several decades, in large part due to technological … Read more
HR Roundtable: Dealing With the People Issues of Change
When the May [Cincinnati] HR Roundtable got together, it jumped into the deep end (which is always fun)! Change is a reality, but we think it’s often … Read more
A Coaching Culture Makes an Organization More Adaptable to Change
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. This is No. 2 of the 708 articles. You can … Read more
3 Ingredients for a Successful Transformation
Back in my corporate days, one executive attempted to change the culture of his organization. The culture, typical of the Midwest at the time, was … Read more
To Manage Change, Unleash Adaptability
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. This is No. 24 of the 708 articles. You … Read more
How HR Can Be the Bridge Between the Centuries
HR is on a metaphorical bridge between the centuries. Some HR professionals — many, perhaps most — work for legacy companies struggling to make … Read more
Successful Digital Transformation Takes a People First Approach
A decade ago, a McKinsey study found 65% of the senior executives surveyed were only “somewhat,” “a little,” or “not at … Read more
Society Is Changing What the Future of Work Will Be Like. Are You Prepared?
I tend to have a somewhat cynical view toward predictions about human capital management (HCM). This is because the fundamental challenges facing HCM … Read more
It’s Our ‘Schemas’ That Make Us Resist Change
Resistance is a mental state, not an attribute. People are not born more open (or not) to change. That’s a wrong assumption most of us make. We think … Read more
Change Management Is a Strategic Skill HR Must Master
Workforce planning is vital to any organization’s future, but the increased speed and continuous nature of organizational change puts additional pressure … Read more