Organization Transformation

Conditions for success are requirements essential to the achievement of your desired outcome, such as adequate resources, sufficient time to do a top-notch job, or quality communications that keep everyone engaged. Conditions for success may also refer to a particular state of being that enables the transformation to occur more smoothly, such as the leaders taking a conscious approach, the executives presenting a unified front in support of the transformation, and people realizing that their needs are actually being considered as the transformation is planned and implemented.

Conscious breathing can improve your performance in everything you do. Elite athletes use their breath to “center” themselves for high performance. Discover a simple breath control technique that can make you a better leader.

Dr. Dean Anderson provides an overview of Conscious Change Leadership and explores why leaders must expand their worldview and perspective if they want to achieve their biggest visions and aspirations. Dean explains why a leader’s current mindset is often inadequate for the task, and how transforming mindset opens up new possibilities for achievement.

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson describes the ten most critical responsibilities for a sponsor of transformational change to fulfill, and how each one directly adds to the success of the effort.

Capacity is what enables people to get their work done, be it their normal day-to-day work or their change work. If your organization does not have or generate the capacity for change, you are at risk of failing to achieve your expected results. The first thing to do is assess your current capacity. Here is the list of steps to conduct a change capacity review so you can find out where you stand so you can free up or build the capacity you need.

When leading transformational change, one of the obstacles you will inevitably deal with is company politics.
This tool lists 22 effective ways of shifting the organizational culture to reduce or eliminate the impact of these dynamics.

In this article, we want to share with you what we perceive you need to be doing—or doing differently, or to stop doing altogether—to get the return on investment you need from the change efforts you sponsor or lead. This is a candid portrayal based on our observations of our senior executive clients over the past four decades. The picture we paint here is further fortified by what we consistently hear from other seasoned consultants and project managers, both external experts and internal professionals, about the successes and challenges they face in getting their senior leaders to do what is required for change to succeed.

A common assumption among leaders and managers is that their success is dependent on having the right answers at the right time and providing clear direction to their people amidst the clamor of day-to-day operations. This may have been historically true when the pace and complexity of change were moderate, but is far less so in times of large scale, high-pressured transformational change.

In this article we will outline six key actions that you can take to stay on top of the “bucking bronco” of change and continue to provide guidance and stability. We will demonstrate how these actions provide sound leadership in times of uncertainty, as well as debunk the faulty assumption that you, as the leader, should be all-knowing.

One of the toughest change efforts we supported was made more difficult because the CEO was not willing to change himself in the very ways he was demanding that his organization change. The company was transforming its strategy, operations, business processes, and culture.

This article explores the key change leadership issue of “modeling,” and provides insights for how you can get your leaders to model the changes they are asking of your organization.

Executives have never before been as challenged in their roles as they are today. The business challenges they face are enormous—globalization and the integration of cultures, unheard-of technological advances, increasingly sophisticated customers AND employees, a struggling economy, and the need to find business performance enhancers beyond cost-cutting and downsizing.

In this article, we describe the five keys to success that we believe will make every coach, and the executives they work with, far more successful.