David Summerton Business Consulting
Dealing With Uncertainty And Managing In The “New Normal” We are facing significant challenges and changes as the old, pre-Coronavirus ways, are swept away and replaced by a different approach to management and working relationships. The “New Normal” approach to managing will have the following features: The need for us all to learn about uncertainty: …
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Leadership Actions When Change Comes Change brings with it many different feelings and emotions, both for managers and staff alike. Whilst we cannot ignore change, we must work with it to get the outcomes that are needed. Leadership actions need to respond to the feelings and attitudes of those who you are managing – these …
What Managers Should Do To Make Change Happen Change within organisations is never easy, however much that change is needed and anticipated: the real skill in successful change lies in tapping into the emotions, the “hearts and minds” of those affected, rather than just relying on the data and the facts on why the change …
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How To Take A Team Through Change Team members need to be informed and educated about the reasons for making changes. This helps people to see how the changes can benefit them. When informing, educating and communicating with the workforce, managers need to focus on the indirect and direct benefits of change. Improvements in the …
10 Pointers To Handle Change Effectively And Efficiently Change comes along and even if you approve of what it is all about, the process MUST be dealt with in the best possible manner, whatever your personal views and opinions. Top Tips for this process include the following: Make time to go out and see the …
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Why Does Managerial Change Fail? Change is a constant and anyone who does not realise this has some serious issues! Just as business cannot cling to the past and hope to have success (however that might be measured!), management and leadership techniques are also shifting continually as both macro and micro operating environments fluctuate and …
How Team Leaders Can Manage Change Effectively To deliver successful change you MUST understand why that change is necessary: success here lies in the preparation of selling the change itself. You MUST communicate, facilitate and enable that change process to happen so that team members are brought together and that they understand what is going …
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How To Deliver Successful Change Delivering Change is a key part of any management job; sometimes this is born out of emergency, practical necessity, operational updates or a whole host of different drivers. Whichever it is you are expected to deliver this with care and focus so that the organisation can move on. So, what …
Making Change Work – Using Appreciative Inquiry Creating change for the better and making it work is one of the most satisfying things about being a manager – knowing that your input has created significant improvements and better systems is what the job is all about. This process is often difficult because people, regardless of …
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How To Deliver Improvements That Last – Broken Window Philosophy Whatever the context we all want to make improvements in every aspect of our lives and work: there has never been a totally fulfilled and content individual. We are wired to always want more, for things to be bigger, better, somehow more satisfying. The process …
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