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The Silent Stakeholder: Why Trauma Needs to Be Considered When Planning Change
The Silent Stakeholder: Why Trauma Needs to Be Considered When Planning Change As an organization change strategist who has been working with clients for the past 30 years to help roll out new technologies or install new post-merger cultures, I’ve seen millions of wasted dollars occur because true adoption did not take hold. While the…
Read MoreTransformation Strategies Featured as a Top 10 Change Management Services Company
October 2021 – Transformation Strategies is thrilled to be featured in Manage HR Magazine’s list of the Top 10 Change Management Services Companies in 2021. This award annually recognizes 10 companies that are at the forefront of tackling customer challenges. Transformation Strategies founder, Tricia Steege, says, “We are honored to be recognized as a Top…
Read MoreWhat Hot Dog Buns Teach Us About Managing Change
When I read recently that the Heinz Ketchup Canada organization has started to gather petition names to end the hot dog packaging mismatch, I laughed out loud. The scene in this video came immediately to mind. Steve Martin (aka as George Banks) in The Father of the Bride going ballistic in a grocery store. Because…
Read MoreThe 5 Rookie Mistakes New Change Leaders Make
I’m here to give you a few rookies mistakes new change leaders make. If you want to succeed, watch out for these trip ups! Thinking implementing change is linear Employees are not machines and they don’t change their behavior just because you say so. It is…
Read MoreOn Par Leadership: How to Be a “Hole-in-One” Leader
Here in the Philadelphia area, the weather is gorgeous, sunny and warm. This kind of weather gets me really ramped up because I know that golf season is right around the corner. I haven’t been able to play for a couple of years so I’m itching to get back at it this year. Recently, I…
Read More3 Ways To See Others Even Through The Masks
How easy the temptation to hide behind our masks in today’s COVID world. But as leaders, masks cannot be an excuse for finding ways to engage their teams that foster the day to day relationships needed for success. They can no longer solely rely on facial expressions and verbal communications in order to create connection…
Read MoreHow to Get Ready to Return to the Post COVID Workplace
As we begin to think about re-opening our places of work, diving right back into doing things the way we did before our lock downs isn’t going to work. As a globe, we have been going through a significant trauma and the impacts of this trauma will be walking back into our “brick and mortar”…
Read MoreMy Manager Just Showed Up at My Door Unannounced
Photo by Scott Web – Unsplash There was an interesting question that came across one of my news feeds today. The question….. “It is ok for your manager to just show up at your home unannounced?” The discussions on this thread regarding this question were “colorful” to say the least. Every response from “not if…
Read MoreThe Coronavirus – The Best Virtual Leadership Development You’ll Get!
Recently LinkedIn had an article entitled “Is this Remote Work’s Big Moment?”. The writer proposed that because many companies are asking their employees to work from home in light of the Coronavirus situation, it could be the tipping point for companies to embrace the policies more widely. Well, I don’t know about whether its remote…
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