David Summerton Business Consulting
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 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 Implement Change In 7 Effective Steps Have a strong and clear reason WHY you want to make a change: this should be easily justified the minute someone challenges you. Define the goal that you want to achieve before you start: write this down many times and refine the document so that you can …
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Four Top Tips For Successful Change Cognitive recognition: we are all suspicious of change but the more we understand why change is necessary (often by seeing what will happen if we DO NOT accept change!) the more likely we are to readily accept it. Leaders who explain the broader contexts of change always get buy-in …
How To Innovate Successfully Managers should innovate – but how should this be done and what steps can you take to deliver this? The following pointers might be helpful: Focus your innovation and thought processes around a recognised and thorny issue where there has already been some investigation and analysis. Where exactly is the pain …
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