Posts Tagged ‘Organizational Change’

Managing Change by Changing the Conversation

photo of people talking to each other

I’ve always liked Peter Block’s statement, “To change the organization, change the conversation.” Creating organizational change is largely about organizing the right conversations between the right people—that’s how relationships and ways of working together are altered. Deepening that notion, I was at a dinner with Peter at a friend’s house the other night, and I…

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Quick Guide to Survey Design for Organizational Change

Surveys, interviews, and questionnaires are important tools for gathering feedback from stakeholders during organizational change. An organizational change plan always involves some form of stakeholder analysis or research, so asking good questions is critical. As a result, I get asked for a lot of advice on designing surveys, so I thought would list some of…

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Guidelines for Strengthening Your Change Plan

Frequently, the intention to change and organizational inertia clash so that nothing ends up actually changing. Smart people spend a lot of time coming up with the change, but comparatively little time on the change plan, which so often involves only a launch email and an announcement that training is available. But the study of…

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Learning versus Adaptation: Insights from Maneuver Warfare

Military metaphors are normally frowned upon in the organizational change world. Instead, organism metaphors and words like empowerment, collaboration, and partnership are preferred. But a friend of mine recently brought to my attention the Maneuver Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind. Although it is primarily a book about military tactics and operations, this book also…

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