As change managers we know: In the labyrinth of organizational dynamics, the secret to success often lies NOT in the robustness of strategies or the sophistication of technologies but in the HUMAN ELEMENT: the collective will of the employees. A recent article by McKinsey, “Going all in: Why employee ‘will’ can make or break transformations,”… Read More »
Any change project brings plenty of opportunities to practice your skills to apologize. In fact, the art of genuinely and credibly apologizing to me more and more seems a key enabler of change projects. Have you ever thought about your own skill of apologizing in important private or professional situations? Apologizing to your partner or… Read More »
By accident I recently came across an article that I have first read a few years ago, published in MIT Sloan Management Review. And I still find the core idea a very current one: how project management can benefit from brand management. The basic idea is that there is a market for projects inside any… Read More »
I have been involved in drafting and promoting quite a few so called social media guidelines – including for GIZ and Daimler. Social media guidelines are basically a tool to sensitize your employees for how they might be seen when blogging or posting on social networks. This is important as individual employee behavior on social… Read More »
Just a few days ago Kelly and Ben Decker published an excellent article over at HBR.org on how to best communicate with employees in order to motivate them. They see the main challenge to motivate an employees is shifting his typical response to work from “I have to” to “I want to.” According to their reasoning we have to strategically… Read More »