Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Should leaders pivot their plans due to the possible impact of the new COVID strains – coming from the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere , and discovered across the US – on their businesses? Yet another element of these brand-new strains should make you much more ready to change your plans: they’re a lot more infectious.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 29, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development We have all heard the age old 7 P’s about the effects proper planning has on your performance. Poor planning is one of the top reasons most businesses fail. The ability to properly plan and complete projects can be an extremely intricate, complicated [.].

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a billion dollar business for good reason. An ERP management information system integrates areas such as planning, purchasing, inventory, sales, marketing, finance and human resource.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 13, 2015

At some point a succession plan must be prepared to ensure that the company continues to be successful. The following are key to success of the transition: A proper plan must be in place to enable the successor to learn the ropes and step in when the time comes. Make Succession Planning a Priority.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2015

Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

While reasons such as not having enough time or resources are definitely valid, the real cause for many failed tasks is that there was not proper planning. It is usually a complete lack of planning rather than simply poor planning [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Are you familiar with the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle? Do you know how to implement it well within your company?A A really big key between people that use PDSA successfully and those who don’t is that the ones that do it successfully turn the cycle quickly.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2013

Posted in Career Development Self Leadership [link] Much has been written about the importance of a life plan. Life plans without a life philosophy will not survive in the long haul. Life plans set a direction and key objectives [.]. Even more has been written and promoted about steps to develop one.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

I have realized over the years that the most effective way for a leader to create results and build culture is to adopt a rolling focus, 30-60-90 day game plan. At the same time, immerse yourself into the company culture: values, mission, goals, and current (if any) strategic plans.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Now is a great time to make a plan for your health! You have a version of this in an emergency or crisis plan, but this should be an additional protocol to help those dealing with the trauma from the pandemic, trauma of any kind, or mental health needs. SOS Action Plans. Example Plan Template. Call for help-an SOS?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership If you don’t know Jack … you should meet him. Jack is a successful executive who is recently retired at the early age of 52 as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that made a financial turn around from red to black on his watch. He was very proud of the achievement … and [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 12, 2021

What’s the plan to make it happen? What’s the plan to make it happen? All types of change—individual, team, or organizational— require a detailed plan. The plan should list all of the actions, timeframes, resources, and budget needed to fully implement the change. What’s the goal? Who needs to change?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Recently, I was engaged to lead a strategic planning exercise for a company navigating challenges resulting from the Covid pandemic. Armed with these insights, I developed a service proposal that described how we would work together in creating a strategic plan and implementing a strategic management process.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2019

The Chief Happiness Officer therefore needs to develop a strategic plan encompassing all three aspects of MAC. What would such a strategic plan need to include? As Chief Happiness Officer, your strategy on this factor includes a plan for continual development and for the sustainable employability of the coworker.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

To avoid falling prey to the leader’s curse, consider the following steps: Planning —Early in your company’s life, set a plan with your investors and leadership team for the milestones you want to achieve that relate to your current role. Introspection is vital to planning. And it is more common than you might think.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

Building and maintaining trust is an issue that most leaders agree is critically important, but few have a plan to achieve it. It reminds me of the old project management adage: people don’t plan to fail; they just fail to plan. Most leaders don’t plan to fail in building trust, they just fail to create a plan.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Vision is distilled into actionable priorities, which become the day-to-day operating plan guiding all team members in performing their work. Having a great plan that doesn’t translate into what team members do in their work every day is a waste of the paper it’s printed on. Strategies are bundles of activities.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As businesses plan for 2021, it’s a perfect time to practice 2020 Hindsight – reviewing observations from this year for insights and learnings to leverage in the coming 12 months. How do these observations inform your 2021 business plan? Has the economic environment created new customers or needs you can address?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2021

A simple but effective model is the “Stop / Start / Continue approach shown here : To be effective, the capture of lessons learned must be based on an organizational listening strategy which is visible, has credibility, and builds a track record of action planning. Adherence to project plan. PROJECT MANAGEMENT. CHANGE MANAGEMENT.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Preparations include creating a disease outbreak response plan, preparing for event cancellations, enforcing a more stringent cleaning process for offices, and cross-training employees in case some get sick or need to take care of family members who are. Planning Fallacy — We tend to believe that things will always go according to plan.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Annual Planning. To gain better traction within your organisation around thinking and to plan ahead, aligned to your strategic focus, I am a massive fan of yearly planning for all staff. However, I am not a fan of the monolithic, cumbersome, ‘door wedge’ variety of plans many organisations insist on producing.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

Specifically, the leader describes—the goal, plan, and deadline. Plan —I want you to do these five things. . Their questions relate to the goal, plan, and deadline. . Plan —What actions are required? They have ideas to contribute and insights to share in the planning and decision-making process. .

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2019

We’ve all seen and been a part of this: we come back from a workshop, conference, strategic planning session, or other great event excited to make great changes. First, let’s look at some of the reasons why change did not occur: Action plans were not made. Many people fail to plan for what to do after.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He threw himself into the process of setting up a home office and working on the details of the software he planned to launch. A related problem in our decision-making comes from the mental blindspot called the planning fallacy , our intuitive belief that everything will go according to plan.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Involve others in planning and implementation. One of my favorite sayings is, “Those who plan the battle rarely battle the plan.” People take ownership over plans they create and implement. Your people will trust and respect your authenticity.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2020

The key is turning the Individual Development Planning (IDP) process into an engaging interaction—and maybe even a celebration—that inspires reflection, discovery, exchange of ideas, motivation, and growth. Listen in as Bev Kaye and Julie Winkle-Giulioni have an interactive discussion about the (often forgotten but essential) IDP process.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identify an imperfect action plan – essentially be prepared to take action to start the journey and sustain it. No plan ever survives intact its first encounter with people, so imperfect works! If the silence is too deafening, embrace it and use it – to think, reflect, plan and review.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2014

Posted in Change Management How prepared is your organization to implement your strategic plan and move the necessary change forward? Strategic success requires more than a strategic plan; it requires the right employees with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Not only do they not typically work, but they are also no guaranteed plan for lasting change. However, many know that New Year’s resolutions don’t work. Michael Hyatt has some excellent research commentary on New Year’s Resolutions that backs up that view. Vision and Your Leadership of Change. Vision is something to serve.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

I chuckled at the headline in an airline magazine as I planned this article. Tap into their natural energy to explore ideas in the discovery and planning phases. These traits position them to find gaps and weaknesses in plans for implementation. Invite their hard questions and input as you shape these plans.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Present a compelling case as to how your ideas and plans will improve current situation. First, establish a project team to create a detailed plan. The plan should include all required changes including the actions needed to increase people’s ability and motivation to do what’s required. Facts and logic can be persuasive.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

No matter how you plan, you are going to encounter problems, and change will impact your plans. To assume that your best laid-out plan will work is being naïve. . When I plan, I always map multiple outcomes, this enables me to cover all the bases. In creating a plan, I call it a user story. This is my plan B or C.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

Gather your key stakeholders and a facilitator and present your plan. Then, ask the stakeholders to imagine a future where the plan failed. . Next, ask each participant to anonymously list down three potential reasons that the plan did not succeed. Step 2: Brainstorm ways to fix problems and integrate your ideas into the plan.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s an opportunity to either build trust or erode it, so it’s important you approach the situation with a clear purpose and plan in mind. Can we talk about what’s been going on and figure out a plan to make sure we get this corrected?” I’m concerned because this isn’t normally like you.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Change resistance should be welcomed as an important source of data about how the plan is progressing. The best way to reduce resistance is to plan for it, monitor it, and take appropriate steps to address it throughout the change process. In addition, resistance can be a rational response. Deploy influencers who can reduce resistance.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Apple CEO Tim Cook faced a spirited backlash after he shared the company’s plans to require employees to be in the office three days a week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. And given that, 41% of employees plan to leave their current employers this year post-pandemic re-staffing, means companies are doing more recruiting than ever.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Do you make assumptions when planning for a change? My experience tells me that unconscious assumptions underpin most planned change. What is more, those assumptions can be important determinants of whether the actual change planned occurs. Often in change processes, you exchange your version of reality with others around you.

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