• Change Management: Advice on Managing Resistance to Change

    Change Management: Advice on Managing Resistance to Change0

    ASQ’s Influential Voices were asked in the recent roundtable topic about change management, specifically: It’s often said that people don’t resist “change” so much as they resist “being changed.” So, the job of change management is clear: In a nutshell, you must explain why the affected people should want to change, and thereby cultivate readiness

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  • Undo Old Habits and Make New Connections to Embrace Change

    Undo Old Habits and Make New Connections to Embrace Change0

    Culture can be defined as the sum of individuals’ work habits within an organization.  Culture is often invisible to the members within the group because it is “the way we do things around here.”  One implication of culture as a collection of habits and practices is that it has incredible inertia and momentum.  Cultural inertia

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  • 7 Tips for Leading Successful Change

    7 Tips for Leading Successful Change0

    The success of an organization depends increasingly on its ability to adjust quickly to new situations. New trends, regulations, and fierce competition force companies to make major organizational changes in order to remain competitive. The cost in management time and money is significant. Often, an even higher price is paid in employee morale and failures.

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  • Five Keys to a Successful Change Management

    Five Keys to a Successful Change Management0

    http://www.changefactory.com.au/our-thinking/thoughts-on-the-line/change-management-nutshell/ The ultimate goal of change management is to drive organizational results and outcomes by engaging employees and inspiring their adoption of a new way of working. Whether it is a process, system, job role or organizational structure change (or all of the above), a project is only successful if individual employees change their daily

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  • The Four Rules of Lean Transformation

    The Four Rules of Lean Transformation0

    People are often quite uncomfortable with change, for all sorts of understandable reasons. This can lead them to resist it and oppose it. This is why it’s important to understand how people are feeling as change proceeds, so that you can guide them through it and so that – in the end – they can

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  • What is Watched Gets Done, Importance of Effective Measures

    What is Watched Gets Done, Importance of Effective Measures0

    There is quite a bit of debate about the origin of this little statement. The Renaissance astronomer Rhaticus suggested that if you can measure something, then you have some control over it, and the Hawthorne Effect is a great example of this principle in action. There are many ways for ensuring that effective measures and

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