RING! Your alarm goes off. Smack! Your alarm is off. The mental fog retreats and gives way to the slow realization of why you set the alarm. Last week a slow realization came into focus that my profession, and passion, change management, elicits similar transference and abuse as an alarm clock does. There is similarity [...]
Forget those who embrace training and see themselves as lifelong learners. We have no choice but act in constant learning mode, from lunch and learns to new policy rollout to new software to train-the-trainer to skills development. As the saying goes “if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse” and organizations spend on training: in [...]
Today organization success is a study on how to lean into the wind. With the on-going game focused on more of less our organizations are expected to not only run lean(er), but to lean further into the winds of constant change and constant constraints. This operating climate highlights change management as a competitive advantage, those that figure it out excel [...]
SharePoint provides organizations and all who work within them to take knowledge from someone’s hard drive and to a shared forum that fosters collaborative solutions. SharePoint meets 2 distinct organization objectives: Publish — Save to a SharePoint site in place of your hard drive you Collaborate — comment, edit, alert, discuss, track, and manage To foment that value, as the Microsoft SharePoint [...]
This year I have found software, hardware, and product design fascinating for my Organization Development professional development. The reality is we are all designers: we design emails, PowerPoint presentations, facilitation, training programs, change management initiative, just as a minute sample. The constant challenge remains what is our audience need and how do we answer an [...]
We communicate to guide expected action. When expectation is not met the fault is poor communication design. Functional communication needs to measure effective communication from design to result, from delivery through visceral reaction. A community persona perspective measures functional communication design success. We design constantly. Our emails, training courses, project plans, policies, programs, surveys, business [...]
Microsoft calls SharePoint, the new way to work together. I am willing to agree with that and advocate, further, that in the last 12 months SharePoint, has radically altered the way I design any change management effort I roll out. Work together. Work faster. Work smarter … ok, that is a Microsoft SharePointmarketing angle as [...]
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