Why is change so difficult for some people? Can you think of a time where change was occurring and you found it hard to accept (e.g....
Organisational culture levers for employee engagement
In my last blog post I talked about the Corporate Leadership Council’s (2004) levers for engagement, day-to-day work levers. This blog...
Getting the change management right to realise benefits
Did you know that successful benefits realisation is directly related to ensuring that people use the outcomes of the projects or...
Introducing change management to the project manager
We have heard about this concept of change management, we know there is a range of courses and tool sets available, but who really is the...
5 steps to build change management capability
I have had a long history of working with organisations to grow their internal capability around project, program, benefits, portfolio and...
When your project suffers from Requirements Syndrome
Until now, IT project failure was bordering on the proverbial for reasons project managers could never quite pin down. Introducing the...
Don’t wait to embed change
There's a fatal flaw in most project management methodologies: change management activities happen way too late to be effective. Embedding...
5 predictions for change management in 2012
Let's gaze into the crystal ball and see what might be in store for change management in 2012: 1. Executives get on board Many CEOs and...
SAP is not an IT project!
There seems to be a rule that the more complex the change, the less effort is spent on the people who will be adopting the change in their...
Managers—change makers or change breakers?
It's a tough gig being a people leader in times of change. I call managers the squashed tomatoes of change. Senior executives expect them...










