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How do you build personal commitment to change?

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Aug 10, 2012

The major challenge of building personal commitment to a change project is translating the needs of the organisation into something that people can buy into.

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How to manage the 5 triggers of resistance to...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jul 17, 2012
Psychologically, resistance to change is all to do with people feeling a loss of control. But what triggers these feelings?

We've identified five main triggers of resistance - People feel:

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What does effective change leadership really look...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jun 19, 2012
Our research over the past 17 years has consistently highlighted effective change leadership as the biggest single risk to successful delivery of change in organisations.

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David Miller to present Change management versus...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Apr 20, 2012
Tuesday 17 April David Miller, founder and Managing Director of Changefirst, is presenting on "Change management versus project management" at APM's East of England branch.

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How to effectively manage the pressures of change

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Feb 17, 2012
When implementing major change within an organisation both sponsors and agents face the challenge of managing pressures that the change creates.

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Webinar 24 January 2012 - Exploring the Role of...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jan 18, 2012

The role of the change agent throws up some unique challenges and opportunities - and our research in this area has provided some interesting results.

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How to manage the 5 triggers of resistance to...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Aug 26, 2011

Psychologically, resistance to change is all to do with people feeling loss of control and disruption. But what causes people to feel this way?

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What three monkeys told us about culture

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jul 1, 2011

There is a supposedly true story about the results of some research into animal behaviour that perfectly illustrates the primary challenge we face with cultural change.

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Changefirst signs partner agreement with leading...

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jun 15, 2011

Changefirst is pleased to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with leading organisational change management and training company Dextera in the Latin American market. Under the terms...

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Using resilience to improve change performance

Posted by Anne-Lise MacKenzie on Jun 10, 2011

It is interesting how some people when faced with disruptive situations tend to "bounce back" while others tend to flounder. Both groups will experience the same fear and apprehension when faced with...

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