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Structure Your Change
Program
"Any change, even a change for the better, is
always accompanied by
drawbacks and discomforts." ~ Arnold
Bennett
The challenge and the shape of an
organization's
behavioral change program depends on
the
corporate culture
and the targeted behaviors that need to be changed.
Your change program
needs to be explicitly built around these challenges. "Very often, these
programs involve the creation of
incentives which elegantly reinforce the desired behavior (and therein
reinforce the change loop in the learning dynamic)."1
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Change Management:
Yin-Yang Strategies
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How To
Overcome Resistance to Change:
Kore 10 Tips
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Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements
 Uniliver
"As we launched into our growth strategy, I
realized that I didn't feel right: something was missing," says Antony
Burgmans, Co-chairman of Unilever. "We were doing all the right things: a
new, focused
strategy;
shareholder support; a new organization structure; and good people in place.
But something was wrong – the critical piece was missing. What I saw was
that even though we had an excellent
change strategy, and an inspiring
vision,
what was really required to bring about change at Uniliver was a new
culture, a new leadership mindset, and new behaviors."...
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Inspiring People:
4 Strategies
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Inspiring Culture:
5 Elements
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Inspirational Leader:
10 Roles
Start with
Yourself
The best place to start change is with
yourself. If whatever you do doesn't work, you must be
flexible – you must change your action plan if the current one does not
produce the required results. If you want other people to
change, you must be prepared to make the first step yourself.
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4 WHYs
of
True Success
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Creative Dissatisfaction
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Thought Leader
If you cannot change your
environment, you should change your attitude.
To achieve effective
personal change, consider
practicing the
NLP
Technology of Achievement that was specially
developed to discover how people can excel, and most particularly when
managing change – how to create the 'difference that makes the
difference'...
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