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The Complexities of Large-Scale Organizational Change a la the “Far Side”
November 8th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
There was a great Far Side cartoon once about Rex the Dog and his journey across a tightrope. You see, as the caption read, “Rex was an old dog, and this was a new trick!”
The graphic above barely does Rex justice, but at least you’ll get the point. Rex wasn’t just walking across the high wire. He was doing so while riding a unicycle, twirling a hula hoop, juggling several balls, balancing a fishbowl on his head, and holding a cat in his mouth. Oh yes, and let’s not forget the hushed crowd of spectators below who probably weren’t very hushed… Clearly not your every day feat for Rex. Probably not your every day feat for your senior leaders either! Read the rest of this entry »
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Plus Delta’s Founder & CEO Kicks Off National Speaker Series for MNODN Chapter
September 8th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
Ready to focus on your own professional development and up your game now that summer is almost over? Plus Delta’s Founder and CEO Dr. Jeremy Lurey kicks off this year’s National Speaker Series for the Minnesota OD Network with two exciting programs that you won’t want to miss.
- Essentials of Change Management, Thur Sept 15th – Explore the key drivers for successfully implementing organizational changes and develop the critical skills you need to effectively lead complex enterprise-wide change initiatives
- Making It On Your Own: Leading Practices for Running a Successful OD Consulting Practice, Fri Sept 16th – This is a perfect primer for skilled OD consultants who want to launch their own consulting practices and/or now need to develop the critical skills required to run their firms and become successful “solopreneurs”
Both programs are being offered in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area next month, so if you are in the area, sign up now. And if you don’t live or work in the Twin Cities area, contact Jeremy directly at +1.310.589.4600 x4612 or by email at jslurey@plusdelta.net. He can tell you all about these two targeted workshops and schedule additional sessions for you and your organization whenever and wherever it’s more convenient for you!
Posted in Change management, Consulting, Consulting Practice, Consulting Skills, Minneapolis, Minnesota OD Network, OD Network, organizational change, Professional Development, Soloing, Solopreneur, St. Paul, Training, Twin Cities | No Comments »
Battling Resistance and Getting “Buy-In” with Kotter and Whitehead
June 28th, 2011 by Pam Hartman
What change or innovation did not begin with the planted seed of a great idea? Is YOU believing in your good idea enough? Is enthusiastically presenting it to a group knowing it will make a crucial difference going to keep it from getting shot down? John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead have delivered in their book “buy*in: saving your good idea from getting shot down” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010) a defensive-driving, counterintuitive approach to protect those good ideas from unfair attach strategies that naysayers, nitpickers, and handwringers deploy with great success time and time again.
What we really want and may not be so effective at is to gain support by respectfully engaging your adversaries, standing your ground, and saving the day! Sound intriguing? I forewarn you they are not tactics for the fainthearted. The authors encourage you to “invite in the Lions”. You may even become traumatized by the plain talk that leads you to relive some of your greatest failures. But as with any Kotter book, your thinking will be turned upside down in a fresh and amusing way, and you will be forced to learn before you know what hit you. How does the world’s foremost authority on Leadership and Change get inside our head’s like that? And this time it’s not with Penguins (see Our Iceberg Is Melting), but a fairly docile Citizens Advisory Committee at the Centerville Library, wanting to put in new computers, and one fantastic idea. Read the rest of this entry »
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Plus Delta Celebrates Summer with FREE Positive ChangeSM Strategy Sessions in Malibu!
June 21st, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
Are you about to embark on a major organizational initiative? Do you have some tough decisions to make about your team or broader business as you reflect at mid-year? Are you just plain stuck and in need of some out-of-the-box brainstorming to develop some new and innovative ideas?
At Plus Delta Consulting, we are celebrating summer at our administrative offices in Malibu, California, and for a limited time we invite you to participate in a FREE Positive ChangeSM Strategy Session with our team of talented consultants. During this highly engaging and interactive ½-day session, we will facilitate any executive team or intact work group through a series of exercises Read the rest of this entry »
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Ron McMillan Shares How To ‘Change Anything’ at ACMP Global Conference in Orlando, Florida
May 16th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
A couple weeks ago, several of Plus Delta’s team members attended the inaugural Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Global Conference in Orlando, Florida. When I arrived at the conference, I expected to hear internal change agents from some leading companies tell us about their great successes managing change in their organizations. I even expected a bunch of external consultants to tell us about their proven models for managing change. What I didn’t expect was for someone to tell us how we can “change anything” by learning how to systemically influence others.
“The most important capacity you possess is the ability to influence behavior – that of yourself or others.”
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Best Practice Lessons Learned from ACMP Global Conference, Orlando
May 13th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
Plus Delta Team Unites in Orlando to Learn from the Experts!
Earlier this month, several of Plus Delta’s core team members flew to Orlando to attend the inaugural Association of Change Management Professionals Global Conference. As we continue to refine our own Positive ChangeSM toolkit and develop enhanced learning programs for our clients, colleagues, and alliance partners, it was an incredible opportunity to learn from some of the experts in the field of organizational change. With keynotes from John Kotter and Daryl Conner and general conference sessions from some of the world’s most prominent organizations, it was a once-in-a-lifetime event we were proud to sponsor!
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Daryl Conner Delivers Call to Action to Change Management Practitioners at Inaugural ACMP Global Conference
May 11th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
Due to some last-minute client meetings in Los Angeles, I unfortunately missed the opening event and John Kotter’s keynote presentation at the inaugural Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Global Conference in Orlando, Florida last week. I did however make it in time to hear Daryl Conner’s keynote presentation on Day Two. And what a great way to kickoff this first-ever international event of more than 700 change management practitioners!
In his address, Conner started by offering three gifts to his audience. I’m not sure any of us truly saw them as gifts initially. It really just seemed like three questions from a guy (supposedly an expert in the field!) who apparently didn’t want to give us the answers on this Tuesday morning. By the end of the session though, I wondered if Christmas had come early to Orlando as Conner had provoked some powerful thinking in me about the application of my work as an organizational change expert.
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Plus Delta Welcomes Pamela Hartman to Our Growing Team!
March 25th, 2011 by Jeremy Lurey
Plus Delta Consulting is thrilled to announce the addition of Pamela Hartman to our firm as Director, Client Solutions. Throughout her 20-year career, Pamela has managed large-scale transformational change efforts around the world with people, teams, and organizations from small non-profits, various government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. She has consulted across a wide variety of industries and brings her passion and thought leadership in the area of global sustainability to the firm. Prior to joining Plus Delta, Pamela served as a Senior Manager in the Business Transformation practices for North Highland and Capgemini Consulting. She received her BA and MS degrees from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and she holds certificates in PROSCI Change Management, Lean Manufacturing, Engagement Management, Facilitation, Instructional Design, Human Resources, and Intercultural Communications.
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Tags: Academy, Change management, Sustainability, transformation
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Paying Attention to Employee Motivation to ‘Drive’ Enhanced Performance
August 31st, 2010 by Cris Hagen
I just finished reading “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us“, by Daniel H. Pink where he describes some new and not so surprising “truths ” about what motivates employees. Leaders take note! Here are the headlines:
- Your sales compensation plan may not only be driving the wrong behaviors, but may be costing your organization more money than the revenue it was intended to incentivize!
- The majority of your management team may be leading people based on a set of assumptionsabout employee motivation that are not only outdated, but that are likely de-motivating in the long run!
- If your company cannot point to any products, services, or activities that are socially redeeming and that contribute to “the greater good” of society at large, your employees are likely going to “underperforming”.
- If managers do not understand the difference between “carrot and stick” motivation and the intrinsic, deep-desire people have to direct their own lives and live a life of purpose, they will fail to realize the full potential of their employees, and companies will fail to realize greater productivity from those employees.
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5 Critical Steps to Implementation Success: Why Aren’t We Learning From Our Mistakes?
April 7th, 2010 by Kim Barnett
For the last 10+ years I’ve been managing client relationships and selling Change Management consulting and training solutions to organizations that want to adopt a common approach to manage change. It continues to fascinate me that despite the increased focus and discipline applied in this field, implementation efforts continue to fail because of human factors. Organizational Change Management as an industry has existed for 40 years if not longer. Over the past 10-15 years it has become increasingly more common for large organizations to recognize the need to manage the human issues when implementing large-scale change (i.e. ERP or technology implementations, mergers and acquisitions, culture change, reengineering or business process change, downsizing, organization redesign, or any project that involves changing the way people do their jobs). Much has been written about why implementation efforts fail. Statistics continue to illustrate that approximately 80% of change efforts fail to meet budget, target dates, or key objectives. It is also well documented that the highest risk of implementation failure is on the human side, and not with the technology. Many Fortune 500 organizations today understand that by applying a structured approach or framework to manage the human side, the chance of a successful project will substantially increase. Then why aren’t we learning from our past mistakes? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Change management, Leadership, Organization Development, Project management
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