change management Tag

There have been whole books written on change management, and within Tekara I am not even considered the change expert.  So why am I writing a blog about change management?  The goal is to provide a layman’s perspective.  With over 20 years of consulting, I have observed a few basic tenets of change management, four to be exact.
embrace-change (1)If you’ve read any Leadership blogs or books lately, you’ll have twigged that the next big thing in leadership development is to ‘refresh’ ‘reboot’ and ‘recalibrate’.  Seems we may have entered a virtual ‘renewal revolution’ and along with it permission to hit control-alt-delete when we get stuck or run into change resistance. I love the metaphor of renewal.  So much promise, so much potential—and perhaps a little too much like a New Year’s resolution that starts off full of mighty resolve and will power, only to lose momentum and meaning by week three—as if to say we want change and we want it now—in a click!