One should expect resistance with any great change. It shakes the very foundation of privilege (Lucretia Mott). Never give up. Never, never, never, never give up (Winston Churchill).
Presents a schedule for the alignment of personal needs and priorities with organizational needs and priorities. By considering leadership, coaching, corporate citizenship, change management, efficiency, team working, customer focus, and decision making, individuals can compile an action plan for professional and organizational change, ensuring that one is not at the expense of the other. Features a number of models to encourage reflection and discussion as well as assessment instruments to aid immediate practical development.
Since every organization’s success is built on the participation and good work of its staff, this article advises leaders to view their organization as a country, and frames their primary management challenge as creating “organizational citizenship”, defined as a voluntary consistent commitment to the goals, methods, and ultimate success of the organization. Most leadership strategies are designed to create specific business results; their effectiveness will depend on the creation of a culture of patriotism throughout the organization.
Provides a new use for a well-validated career assessment and planning system. The actual value of this approach should be studied using best-practices in ROI research.
Introduces a change model as a tool to help change leaders and agents to understand why resistance to change occurs and to suggest some ways to reduce resistance. Suggests four change levers, i.e. beliefs, skills, values and behaviors as being elements within people which must change in a successful change process and considers ways to achieve this.
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