The Brexit can has been kicked down the road for so long, are we ready to manage the change if the Council of Ministers and the UK Government give provisional approval later this week? The UK Business Secretary, Alok Sharma, wrote to 600,000 businesses on Monday, telling them they had 80 days to prepare before the transition period ends and […]
There is often a tension in an organisation when communicating change, between getting something out quickly or taking time to make it easily understandable. This may seem obvious but with conflicting pressures like an impending deadline, complex approval processes, pressure to act etc – this is often the reality. The Covid-crisis is a real-time university of change management with […]
For people who are managing change in organisations, the COVID-crisis could be the longest ever real-time learning experience if it wasn’t for the devastation it brings to families, economies and nations around the world. The latest topic to be unearthed by this mutating crisis is the age-old debate between centralisation and localisation. In the battle against COVID there is an […]
What can Change Management and Internal Communication professionals learn from the UK Government’s ‘Stay Alert’ message? Have a look at my article published by the CPD Certification Service. https://cpduk.co.uk/news-articles/view/stay-alert-lessons-in-communication-from-covid-19 #changemanagement, #internalcommunication
For those of us who regularly deliver complex change management programmes to organisations, the handling of Covid-19 by governments around the world is a constant catalyst to challenge and develop our thinking. Sometimes how to do it and sometimes how not to do it! Like so many transformation programmes, we didn’t sign-up for this, the timing is not great, […]
The term ‘new norm’ has been widely used – almost as widely used as ‘unprecedented’ through the pandemic – and it has gathered a sense of the familiar. BUT… this familiarity relates to our personal lives. In organisations we are only just starting on that journey and it’s going to be a long journey. A journey that includes a whole new order, where technology moves at lightning speed, where industries have to adapt to survive, and where […]
Being a good communicator is a basic tool in the Change Manager’s toolkit, but those who can demonstrate strategic communication skills will be in greatest demand. In the new order, Change Managers will have to overcome conflicting pressures to deliver successful transformation programmes. On the one hand, there has never been so much change on the horizon. Technology is moving at lightning speed, industries have to adapt to survive, and there are new geopolitical realities like Brexit. On the other […]