Category Archives: Change Management
The Employment Promise: The Truth For Today – Our Best Guess About Tomorrow
I work for a company that celebrates 140 years in business this month. This is considered by many to be remarkable. One hundred and forty years of quality, service, and fair dealing. Suffice it to say that there are no original employees, and that growth and results over that period didn’t happen accidentally. It involved…
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Getting My Priorities Straight
Ah, another Monday. I’ve had approximately 1,700 career Mondays and, frankly, they are not much different from any other day. There are some more memorable than others. The Monday where I came to work to learn that my boss had been fired the previous day. Or there was that Monday where no other work mattered…
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Stop Fixing The Leaks – Write Foundational Policy
I recently read this post from Dawn Hrdlica-Burke. In her very cool job at Daxko, she has the opportunity to set policy, and in her post she proudly presents their thirty-eight word social media policy. It’s a policy admirable not just for it’s brevity, but for its basis in principle. If you work at Daxko,…
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1,827 Days Well-Spent
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and…
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No More Burning Platforms – PLEASE!
Anyone who has ever had accountability for Change Management knows the story of the burning platform. Managers frequently use this analogy to help employees understand that the current situation is not sustainable, and they need to jump from this burning platform to a new future. In the story, the choice is to remain on the…
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Selling Broccoli as Bacon
When looking at tough change management tasks, many leaders try to develop communication messages that are difficult to “sell”. And it doesn’t matter what the change is. If it’s good for the business, then it’s good for all the employees, right? I mean, if the company doesn’t succeed, then we all are at risk. We…
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