Understanding Different Communication Styles
Have you ever thought about how you like to communicate and be communicated with? We usually become aware of these preferences when someone is definitely not interacting the way we…
Understanding Different Communication Styles
Myth: The Organisation’s Current Experts Will Be The Stars On My Team
Subject matter experts are very often hard workers with valuable organisational memory. They know how things work and, most importantly, know how to fix things when they don’t work. In…
Myth: I Can Solve The Current Problem By Working Harder
Yes, it is true extra effort achieves more in the short term; that’s one of the reasons why you do it. But the long-term cost can be much higher than…
Myth: I Will Have The Authority To Deliver On My Responsibilities
What Is The Myth? That you will be allowed to decide, based on your position, how to run your program and choose who you have on your team. Where Did…
Myth: My Success Will Speak For Itself
What Is The Myth? That successfully delivering a transformation program will be recognised by influential senior executives as a significant achievement, and you will be given the opportunities and rewards…
Myth: The Executive Team Understands What It Will Take
When you’re significantly changing organisations, products, or services, strategic choices and directions will inevitably be challenged. The strangest thing from my perspective is that senior leaders seem to overlook or…
Myth: Those Above Me Will Support Me Through Thick and Thin
Personally, one of the toughest transformation myths for me to deal with has been the availability of support from my senior leadership. It is an expectation gap I don’t think…
Myth: We Can Define Success in Detail at The Outset
When we look at the definition of a project, it has an end. That end itself is capable of being defined reasonably firmly, so that all involved can know or…
Myth: Transformation Is A Project
The myth is that transformation programs are projects, and as such will have a clear start and finish, definable objectives, and can be managed using standard project management techniques. Where…
How patient do you need to be?
As a leader you will almost certainly feel a degree of pressure at some point when delivering change. When this happens it can feel as if you’re the only one…