Change Management

We need to understand shifting power dynamics amongst stakeholders and how these relate to resistance to change for success in organisational change

This study provides valuable insight for dealing with high uncertainty and fast-paced change whilst building change readiness for the future.

Scheduling time for preparatory tasks helps change stick. If you are facing change in your organisation, here is a checklist for what you can do to prepare.

ChangeQuest’s values and approach are always rooted in helping people to learn and grow, and nurturing a challenge mindset.

When organisations convey a sense of purpose to activities, they can recruit people who align to that purpose, who genuinely promote it.

This webinar offers tips and ideas to build change resilience when working in an environment of uncertainty.

If experiencing resistance to change on projects, why not use Beckhard and Harris’ change equation to review which factors are in place and where you might need to focus more attention.

I ran a webinar for APMG International offering tips and ideas to build change resilience when working in an environment of uncertainty.

Reflection and learning are critical for organisations, teams and individuals, especially at a time of high uncertainty and rapid change.

There are disadvantages to imposing strategic change and benefits to involving people early on, but external pressures can disrupt the best laid plans.

The following project management tips will provide you with some useful guidance for effective project management.

Whether you are a small or large organisation, there are likely to be periods of change, situations that are challenging and events that require careful handling. To come through the other side [...]

A major new project is well underway and likely to, no definitely will, disrupt the status quo – but it’s all for the greater good and you can clearly see the benefits and opportunities it will [...]

Every organisation that wants to develop and grow will need to change. Whether by undertaking projects to implement new technology, whether by changing business processes to increase [...]

Herbert Kelman is an American psychologist with a lifelong focus on conflict resolution and peace research. He set out 3 stages of attitude change, which are helpful when applied to the [...]

Familiar routines and processes are comforting. Following a well-trodden path is easier and less taxing on the brain. I was reminded of that recently when I went to meet a client for the first [...]

The ‘change curve’ derived from the work of Kubler-Ross, describes the internal emotional journey that individuals typically experience when dealing with change and transition.

I have had many discussions recently about transformation – business, digital and IT transformation – but there is one common theme that underpins each of these conversations: Organisations [...]

  Yet another traffic jam. Crawling along in my car the other day, craning to see the reason for this 20mph procession, the news on the radio announced Clinton Cards were going into [...]

We live in fast moving times. Never before has there been such rapid transformation, and uncertainty, across all industries as in recent years. Technology is advancing at a phenomenal rate, and [...]

A few days ago, I watched some of Clare Balding’s TV game show –they showed clips of an experiment, with people buying fruit and vegetables at a busy market stall. The experiment highlighted how [...]

When Craig Kilford, from Course Conductor, contacted us back in 2016, he explained he wanted to “Transform the way companies invest in learning for their employees, by using independent analytics [...]

When your working week is already full on, with pressure to deliver tasks, support services and hit targets, you may feel it doesn’t leave a lot of time for supporting people and considering [...]

Who do you trust with your company’s future? The answer, at the most fundamental level, has got to be your people. I have been doing some really interesting work around building and [...]

What sank the Titanic? It wasn’t just an iceberg, it was people. Leaders whom no one dared challenge, employees unable to communicate, organisations lulled into a false of security. The lessons [...]

Who wishes they could attend more meetings?!!  We all know what it feels like to come out of a meeting knowing there was no point being there… or that it could have been so much more productive [...]

Kurt Lewin was a modern pioneer in social, organisational and applied psychology. He was also a physicist and explained organisational change using the analogy of a block of ice.

There’s every chance you haven’t yet heard of mBraining, but we’re convinced this exciting concept can do a lot to help organisations overcome resistance to change. mBraining is about aligning [...]

Are you on the World Cup bandwagon, loving the agonies and ecstasies of those last-minute goals and dramatic upsets? Or do you hate the uncertainty and would rather your team scored three in the [...]

Identifying and analysing the impact of change is one of the keys to effective change management planning. It helps to avoid or at least minimise the disruptive impact of change and support the [...]

I was very pleased to be invited to speak at the 7th Change Management Conference 2018 in Dubai, at which many  different cultures were represented from the Middle East, Africa, USA, Canada and [...]

For change to occur a number of factors need to be in place. Beckhard and Harris put these factors into a change formula. This change formula is deceptively simple but extremely useful. 

The idea of Establishing a Sense of Urgency is from John Kotter’s 8 step change model. It takes a lot of energy to shift away from the status quo and move towards what you want instead.

Published by the CMI and APMG-International, with ChangeQuest’s Ranjit Sidhu as part of the authoring team.

The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook, the official guide to the CMI Body of Knowledge, is designed to help practitioners, employers and academics define and practise change management [...]

Before people can fully embrace the new, they need to be given the time and space to let go of the past. It’s inevitable that there will be a period of disruption and disorientation before this [...]

How often have you praised someone for “bouncing back”? Getting back on our feet after a setback can show impressive resilience … but what if we could go further? In today’s fast-changing world [...]

This webinar will help you tackle change head on, making sure your company can change faster than the world outside. You’ll learn some invaluable practical ways to do this.

Most change situations involve having to learn something new or doing things in a new way, breaking the default pattern of thought that you follow automatically and replacing it with a new [...]

The constantly increasing pace of change can leave organisations in a state of flux. We need to weave it into the DNA of the organisation so that everyone is comfortable getting on with making [...]

Be prepared for the fast life Life keeps speeding up. Do you remember when the tape ribbon would come loose on your music cassettes and you’d use a pencil to wind it back in? Now your smartphone [...]

What do comedians, vacuum cleaners and Formula 1 have in common … and what have they got to do with project management? I’ve been inspired by a Radio 4 programme about learning from past [...]

How do you react when you need to make urgent changes? It’s a question that the Prime Minister has had to address in the wake of recent allegations at Westminster. Her new code of conduct for [...]

King’s ‘Vision 2029’ strategy is to become a world top 20 institution. Currently ranked 36th, this Russell Group university has embarked on multiple, ambitious change programmes covering [...]

When you’re faced with change and having to do things in a new way, have you noticed that it takes longer to get things done? When you change your mobile phone or your television, this can [...]

It is now known that the brain organises things using a basic threat or reward principle, and that our first instinct is to assess threat levels. However, dealing with a ‘threat’ takes more brain [...]

I caught the Olympic bug as a 9 year old, captivated watching Valeriy Borzov in 1972 winning the 100m and 200m. This turned into a full blown cold with Alberto Juantorena at the 1976 Montreal [...]

There’s a lot of change going on at ChangeQuest at the moment – an irony that’s not lost on me! Our business has been growing and growing since I started in October 2014 and with it the size of [...]

The beauty of blogging is that topics usually relate back to what’s really happening in your life rather than random theory. Today I’m pondering the level of engagement achieved by the [...]

It seems such a passive thing, listening. And yet, it can be so much more powerful than speaking — particularly when supporting people through a period of change. If we’re not careful, it’s easy [...]

I think this is going to be a blog about contradictions and opposites. After all mindfulness is about noticing details in the ’here and now’, giving us an appreciation of the status quo – whereas [...]

The first lambs are appearing in the fields – bright and bouncy, and seemingly unfazed by the coldness of the wind. Whenever I’m admiring lambs, I find myself wondering why we are generally so [...]

For today’s profile we managed to catch up with Michaela Lewis over at Domo. Can you tell us a bit about your current role? I am a Senior Manager in Customer Success at Domo and am currently [...]

Why I am Championing Cultural Change to Support Diversity and Inclusion. At school I was always interested in STEM subjects and my recreational time was spent in an odd combination of activities; [...]

It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and the world will be celebrating the achievements of all kinds of women. With this in mind, we thought it would be a perfect time to catch up with some of [...]

It’s World Book Day today and we thought we’d share some of our most favourite industry books with you. It’s easy to buy the ’latest book’ out there, especially if you are new to the field, but [...]

McKinsey recently coined the term ’Neuromyths’ to describe old-fashioned ways of thinking that may have become entrenched, and damaging to the way organisations are thinking about their [...]

You’ve arrived at the site of an important customer. You’re about to address a group of their senior executives and you’re feeling excited about it – you’ve done loads of work on this, and feel [...]

In today’s world, all change cannot be planned. Increasingly change is emergent – it happens as a result of an organisation’s need to be adaptive to stay competitive in fast moving times. It [...]

The updated change management certification was launched 3 months ago. I recently wrote a blog for APMG International containing some reflections and observations from running this course with 6 [...]

Tomorrow, July 18th, is Mandela Day. 1990 was memorable to me for so many reasons, it was a year of great change both in my personal map of the world and in the greater world around me. I was [...]

Almost a month into the New Year, how are you progressing with your New Year goals? When working towards a goal, it’s helpful to understand a bit about the change process, so that you [...]

There’s a sense of newness in the air. It’s 2015 and the old calendars have been swept away, the new ones lie ready for exciting plans to be noted, and all is ready for a fresh start [...]

Gabriele Oettingen is a psychology professor at New York University who’s studied human motivation for the past 20 years. In her recent book, Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science [...]

This week marks the end of summer and return to school for millions of students and parents around the world. Summer seems to go so quickly; time passes by and before you know it another summer [...]

The profound power of storytelling is never greater than when people are experiencing times of the greatest change and adversity, such as during war or rapid industrial and social upheaval. With [...]

It was first said centuries ago that change is the only constant. But it is just as true today. Effective change management is key to the success of any organisation. And its contribution is [...]

Our brains are constantly on the lookout for signs of threats or rewards – clearly the survival of early man depended on this. The decisions we make about what to pay attention to are based on [...]

Ruby Wax’s new book* is published next week. Not surprisingly, it promises to be a good read and an entertaining portal to some pretty big ideas – neuroplasticity, for instance. But [...]

Last week I met a Mercedes-Benz driving coach – please note he was not a driving “instructor”. His business card says very clearly that he is a Driving Coach. Listening to him, I was [...]

Last week was marked as the 40th anniversary of the mobile phone. So I thought we’d take a light-hearted look at the changes and evolution of the phone, since the first “brick phone”, the [...]

From very early on individuals in competitive sports are hardwired to win, they’re driven by a need to be ”top dog”, sometimes at any cost as many scandals have revealed (Lance [...]

Guy Watson, the ethical entrepreneur and founder of Riverford, who created a global business with sales of £30 million and 400 staff from three acres and a wheel barrow, believes that greed is a [...]

When you’re faced with change and having to do things in a new way, have you noticed that it takes longer to get things done? When you change your mobile phone or your television, this can [...]

Very soon we will all once again be happily jumping up and down cheering the world’s Super-Humans, the Paralympic athletes. After Team GB’s hugely successful performance in the 1st [...]

On any given project you can be fairly sure that things won’t go smoothly. Add to that being expected to do more with less, dealing with setbacks and disputes, things constantly chopping [...]

You’ve probably heard about statistics that say 55% of meaning comes from non-verbal communication, 38% from tone of voice and just 7% from the words we speak. This is based on Albert [...]

I was saddened with news of the death of the inspirational role model and teacher Stephen Covey. His book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People sold over 20 million copies and was listed as one of [...]

There are many techniques around to help with decision making, which typically involve understanding where you need to get to, exploring possible options, gathering information to weigh up the [...]

There was a time that phrases such as “you can bank on it” or “you can take that to the bank” signified an assurance of confidence. Today I don’t think these would elicit the same emotional [...]

Post by Mary O’Gorman I’m probably not alone in gathering a fair selection of fitness dvds and equipment, but I have to confess to being a bit of an equipment magpie over the years.  [...]

Last year I was running a large number of short change management workshops for an organisation, touching on theory around their change management framework, but mainly facilitating discussions [...]

This week with street parties occurring up and down the country, stalls and stores everywhere are awash with commemorative plates, printed tea towels, stamps, and flags – all marking the Diamond [...]

We were upgrading our computer systems in the office last week and, as I was out training for the week, it was an ideal time for our “go to IT” man to rummage around my desk [...]

Have you ever felt “But, there’s nothing wrong with the way things are! – why change it?” A large retail store near me seems to have a different layout every time I go in there.  They [...]

The other day my husband was nostalgically watching one of the original Star Trek re-runs. Feigning interest I received a quick induction into the show’s formulaic format.  I learned [...]