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Creating a culture of innovation is essential for organisations that want to stay ahead of the competition. However, innovation cannot be forced or imposed from the top down. Instead, it requires a culture that fosters and encourages creativity, experimentation, and...
Our minds excel at creating mental structures—boxes, categories, rules, and assumptions—that help us navigate the vast sea of information. While this ability is commendable, it has a downside: the comfort of familiarity. Our attachment to beliefs and assumptions poses...
When we recruit for a position, we take a lot of care to consider whether or not someone is a good cultural fit. However, it’s much harder to address this issue with someone from within the organisation. Here's how to performance manage for cultural fit. Performance...
As leaders we are always communicating some sort of change to our teams. Whether it’s a big or small change it’s useful to know what change can trigger for people and how to help others navigate their reactions. The SCARF Model was developed in 2008 by David Rock* as...
There are various change models, but the Elephant, Path, Rider* metaphor stands out for me because it's easy to understand and mimics how our brains work. In summary it's about our brains as conscious rider and subconscious elephant that navigate a path — each plays a...
Successful culture change requires clarity on the observable behaviours we want to see. Culture change programs need explicit definition of the observable behaviours, not just aspirational terms. A simple template helps map out the essential elements for culture...
How to tell the story of your organisational change
If you have been given feedback that you need to be more strategic, or you just feel that you are not being seen as a strategic leader then read on. To be seen as strategic we must take on a strategic mindset, but then we must also visibly demonstrate our strategic...
Stepping up into a senior leadership role is a pivotal career moment. For many leaders, the promotion comes after success in a role where they excel in their technical and operational abilities. However, the role they are promoted into requires a very...
What is a bad strategy? Whether your strategy is a good one or a bad one comes down to many factors, however, there are some starting points, and approaches, to strategy development that make strategies bad from the start. Not all of these are going to sink...