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Goal Setting - Why New Year's Resolutions Waste Your Time & What to Do to Accomplish More Goals

by Karim Ismail

The momentum that comes from change helps propel us forward. Here is what You should be doing instead of relying on Your New Year's resolutions...

Change Management: Making Conscious Decisions

by Kevin Dwyer

Leaders make two types of decisions. They are either conscious decisions or unconscious decisions. The former are traits of true leaders the latter are traits of phoney leaders.

Leading Change; It's 24-7

by Kevin Dwyer

Leading change is tough and lonely but also rewarding as true leaders of change will witness the development of other leaders following in their footsteps. When that happens, it is worth being on show 24x7.

Change Management: Clear, Strong Goals

by Kevin Dwyer

Fed up with the performance of your organisation? Ask and you may find that your organisation is fed up with you as its leader. Provide your organisation with some strong, clear goals and the wherewithal to achieve them and you may find the performan

Managing Change: Unintended Consequences

by Kevin Dwyer

Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point o

Why Half of All Mergers Fail after the Honeymoon Ends

by rick maurer

Most mergers fail. Find out why and what you can do about it.

Why is the UK Banking / Public Sector in Trouble?

by Tom Pickering

The public and UK Banking sectors are typically very similar and experience many of the same issues and challenges. Both still exhibit incredibly low levels of performance coupled with complacency - whilst the will is low the skills exist to sort it out.

What Would You Do if You were Not Afraid?

by Kevin Dwyer

When interviewing prospective recruits or to get people focused on what is important to them, I often ask people a simple question to provoke them to think and to talk, although not always in that order.

Training is Not Enough

by Kevin Dwyer

Organisations spend a lot of money on training. I fear that if they looked back over five years at the changes in behaviour that their training had brought, they would say, "Not enough".

Managing Change: The Simple Approach

by Kevin Dwyer

Change management is treated by many as an ethereal topic; a mystical process overlayed with a lot of "magic happens here". In my experience, there are four main parameters to be considered to make change happen.

6 Signposts for a Successful Journey

by David Krueger MD

Six principles of a navigation of change. Presenting the basic steps of mind over matter success strategies.

What to Do When Trust is Low

by rick maurer

Trust is the most important part of leading change. This articles tells you how you can build trust in your organization starting today.

Midlife Career Change

by Jenni Proctor

Around 40 is often an age when people take stock of their lives and a niggling fear starts to creep in......."If I haven't achieved my dreams now maybe I just have to give up on them."

Career Development and Counselling

by Jenni Proctor

Changing careers after 50 is not easy but it is possible. Over 50s know they have a lifetime of transferable skills and experience that can be applied in different contexts. The challenge is to convince others that those skills and experience are just what they need.

How to Prevent Implementation Failure

by Kevin Dwyer

Failure to implement the recommendations of an investigation into what ails an organisation is a norm for most organisations. For some organisations it is a serial norm.