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5 Reasons You’re Not The Best Person To Teach Your Employees
Ok, so you should onboard new employees, make sure that they understand the mission and goals of your department, review policies and procedures, go over …
Posted in Leadership
Tagged brown bag, business readiness success, growing leaders, influence, leadership, mentoring, shadowing, talent development, teaching
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By All Means, Ignore Your Stakeholders
My vacuum went on the fritz, and I have been trying to get it fixed. It’s a vacuum by the inventor/company that prides itself on …
Posted in Change, Insights, Leadership
Tagged business readiness success, change, communication, setting expectations, Stakeholders, status
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Six Signs You Undervalue Implementation
Business heroes are often the innovators and the visionaries that set the next strategy. Yet, 90% of strategies fail because of execution. We’ve heard this …
Posted in Change, Leadership, Organization
Tagged business readiness success, change leadership, implementation, Innovation, JC Penny, leadership, leading change, learning, skills, Strategy, talent
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6 Change Management Lessons from the Super Bowl
Are you staring at the “Super Bowl of Change” in your organization? Is it a large change and you’re responsible? Are you expected to be …
Bag of Tricks: 4 Tips for Shameless Naming Manipulation
Names don’t matter much. Or do they? From Baby names (good luck with that, Baby Hashtag) to multi-million dollar branding campaigns (New Coke anyone?), names …
Posted in Change, Communications
Tagged baby hashtag, branding, business readiness success, change, Harvard Business Review, influence, jargon, leadership, Maxwell Wessel, naming
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Bag of Tricks: Sign the Flip Charts
Over the years, you pick up certain tricks to move programs forward. I’m a big fan of the following technique from my Bag of Tricks: …
Program Management is Evil!
Few things can “go bad” more quickly than Program Management. But program management should be your friend, not a “necessary evil”. Why so often does it …
Posted in Change, Leadership
Tagged business readiness success, communication, leadership, PMP, Program Management
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Bag of Tricks: It’s Easier to Edit Than Create
I’m known for many quotes and here is a favorite, “It’s Easier to Edit than Create!” Have you ever been to a meeting that went …
Posted in Change, Leadership
Tagged business readiness success, change, change agents, change leadership, change management, communication, meetings
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Have You Ever Seen a Readiness Survey Haiku?
In my previous post, #1 Way to Make Sure You’re Done with Your Change, I talked about the technique of creating a specific type of survey, …
Posted in Change
Tagged business readiness success, business readiness survey, change, change leadership, Haiku, surveys
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