For most of human existence, change happened slowly. For generations people hunted and foraged, or later farmed the land or kept animals. Not much changed. But that’s far from our experience today. We count change in years, not millennia. But why has this happened? It has happened because of memes. Memes (coined by Richard Dawkins)…
Getting to Know Agility What do we know about the strategic creation of agile organisations? In 2014, Schulling reported on a 25 year-long study into this question. Here are 6 insights from that study. Develop an inquiry focus. Don’t base decisions on assumed knowledge but foster an attitude of inquiry. Encourage diverse views. For most…
Why Agility Is Important We all know that business in the 21st century is different from what it was in the 20th century. In the 20th century, competitive advantage was based on economies of scale, hierarchy, and control. In the 21st century, competitive advantage is based on a more entrepreneurial mindset. The key to sustained…
The Meaning of Management What does management mean to you? What did it mean in the past and how has it changed over time? Social Change Before the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s, most people lived and worked in small communities. The corporations or government enterprises we are familiar with today…
The true value of change fitness becomes apparent when you think of improvements in KPIs. Performance improvements can come from efficiency gains, or they can come from capacity gains. Building change fitness increases performance capacity. We have outlined this in our recent publication “Big Performer”. This of this for a moment. If you could improve…
The change fitness story Everything has a story. Here’s a quick peek at the change fitness story. About 20 years ago, one of The Change Gym’s founders, Dr Steve Barlow, worked in the NSW prison system delivering anger management coaching to maximum security inmates. He became interested in why rehabilitative programs worked better with some…
How do you boost performance in your organisation? Do you use incentives to inspire people to perform better? Or perhaps you rely on performance reviews to provide feedback, maintain accountability, and set new targets. Sure, all these can have their place, but they also have their limits. Incentives don’t inspire everyone, and they can create…
It’s often said that people are your greatest asset. But not all people equally. For instance, Google found that 90% of their teams’ performance was produced by just 10% of their people. And we’re all familiar with the 80/20 Rule. Some people are star performers – the ones you want to keep and the ones…
An organisation’s change readiness is its readiness to succeed at the change process. It is not about an organisation’s readiness to begin a change project – it is about readiness to succeed at the change process. Stakeholders who are unable to succeed at the change process level cannot help an organisation succeed at the change…
What we do We help leaders deliver organisational change projects that are more successful, easier to achieve, with less risk, and at less cost. We do this by helping them build the change readiness of their organisation. This is achieved by focusing on 4 areas: increasing the individual change capacity of stakeholders improving the change…
