Customer Value is Augmenting your Purpose with Meaning from the Ecosystem
Let's continue to talk about the principles of agility, today we look at how we can create value to our customers. I like to explain that our purpose is giving us meaning from within and is making us as a group unique. The second part that provides meaning in our work is that we are delivering exciting solutions to our customers . Both are directing us in our daily job and help us to make...
Purpose is what brings the team together into a collective direction
Agility is in everybody's mind. And yes, its principles can help any part of the business to build lasting success in an environment that is complex and ever-changing. Tigerhall invited me to a series of podcasts to share my experience with agility in the manufacturing and financial service sector. Here is the first episode! How do you enable your team to define their change journey from within?
Change is Everywhere - So, why we not applying change management practices?
Many professionals mention they are knowledge and experienced about change management. A highly relevant skill in today's business world. At the same time, we rarely see these skills deeply applied in large transformation projects. Why is that? Here are some reasons I have heard from peer change management practitioners: When reviewing the change management concepts, there is too much to consider...
Leadership Defines the Culture Fertile for Change
Since years, I am advocating that the traditional change management, enabling people to switch to a future state, needs rethinking. Our world has become complex and changes are happening faster and faster. This means the 'future state' is soon obsolete and we need to change to the next one. We are in a state of continuous change. This means we need to cultivate an environment that allows people...
CFOs Leading towards the New Finance Team - How to Facilitate this Change
Last week we conducted the fifth session of the workshop series 'CFOs Leading Business Intelligence' organised by CFO Connex . This last session was all about change management, in particular: how can we define that dream state of the new finance team and how we can take the first steps in that direction. We also had a great panel that provided insights on how to bring change to the finance team...
Decision Making - How is your speed and quality of your decisions?
Together with David Newton , we are organising a workshop series called CFOs Leading Business Intelligence. Last week, I talked about decision making in this context. The financial teams are very good at planning and analysing business data. And we need to understand that all these activities are directed at making better business decision and at the betterment of the business we are in. When it...
Yeah! I got certified as Scrum Master - What did I learn?
For years, I have been looking into agility, its principles and how they help to create lasting success in teams. We have brought agility into manufacturing, R&D and for sure also in IT teams. Earlier this year, I then decided to jump deep into the certification for Scrum Master. What did I learn? There is one thing that becomes obvious very quickly: scrum as methodology is not prescriptive....
Agility & Speed in your Digital Transformation
This article was originally posted in the GloCoach Blog .
Institutionalisation in Change - Identifying and Overcoming Resistance with Structure
Any transformation journey will experience resistance; that's is a normal behaviour. Important as a change manager is to identify these hurdles and design activities that nudge the adopters forward and create structures that reinforce the change. This will smoothen the journey to the future state.
What is the foundation of high-performing teams? Human Connections
We often talk about high-performing teams and trying to find recipes of success. In this context, it is important to look beyond short-term gains and work with establishing a platform for lasting success . At Hive17 Consulting, we like to look at different drivers for change: a vision is giving direction, customer centricity allows us to create value, and experimentation enables us to learn how...
Engagement in Change - Drive Excitement and Confidence for the Future State
Resistance during a transformation journey can build up at any time, at any part of your organisation. Two elements are vital to overcome barriers: keep positive engagement high and develop the right skills. Both elements will increase confidence and therefore smoothen the path to the future state.
Let's use all our senses a bit more often!
There is a lot of things we have experienced and learned in the last eighteen months. And one is becoming clear: using our six senses is much better than using one or two in the virtual world. We need the physical world - at least sometimes. And my friend put it in a very nice quote: «Physical interactions are as important as the sun.» Thank you Daniel Benes for sharing!
Impact in Change - Creating a Collective Imagination of the Future State
The imagination of the future state is guiding the adopters during the change journey. When we formulate this impact as a collective activity, we can create a better understanding among a wider group of people. And as a result, achieve a stronger impact in people's daily work.
Charlie the Change Bear Explores Singapore - Part I
Hello everyone, the last few days we had a lot of rain here in Singapore, and yesterday, finally my host Tim Wieringa brought me out to explore Singapore. Wow, this was impressive! Our first trip, we went to the city centre and discovered some of the old buildings from the British colony times. My first impression: wow, here is so much green! it makes me feel good. And looking at these buildings...
Leadership in Change - Guiding Adopters to the Future State
In change management, we want to guide or lead the people that are impacted by the new solution from where they are today to the new future state. We call this the knowledge are 'Leadership'. Learn more what that means in practice!
Qualities of a Leaders Mind - What about Malleable?
Last week I was sharing some thoughts with a friend about leadership and how we can bring the best out of our team members and peers. In this conversation, we thought about a new quality of a good leaders: being malleable - able to be changed and to adjust. Around us we can observe managers that want to give direction and give guidance to their team members. They are confident with the experience...
Charlie the Change Bear arrived in Singapore - Welcome!
Hello Singapore! I am finally out of quarantine and got a great welcome here in Singapore. Oh, yes, my name is Charlie, I am the Change Bear! Originally, I am from Germany and I have been sharing my change management experience in Beijing and Shanghai for the last few years! What brings me to Singapore? I heard that the program for the 'Certified Associate in Change Management' will be launched...
CFOs - Here is the New Finance Team
This week the CFOConneX network has launched the first workshop series and I am delighted to be part of this event! Thank you David Newton and the entire team! The entire workshops series is about how CFOs can take a new spin to business intelligence; reflecting on how we are doing business planning, budgeting and forecasting. The first session was giving an overview of what this topic entails....
How to develop your future-proofing skills? By practicing change management
The SkillsFuture organisation is doing an excellent job, supporting the development of the workforce in Singapore. They have recently launched a set of Critical Core Skills that are vital for all of us to thrive in a business environment that is rapidly changing in terms of technology and human interaction. The sixteen competencies are grouped in the following three areas: Interacting with Others...
Yes, you can improve the odds of your change initiatives!
Did you know that about 26% of the change initiatives are failing? Most probably you did. And this statistic is quite sobering. And you might very well be deep in a transformative initiative and things take too long, and the impacted people are not sharing the same enthusiasm as you. Yes, this is normal. The good news is, there are clear ways how to improve your odds to over 70%! How? With a...