It was early January. The audience looked fresh and bright, reflecting the glow of happy holidays. A smiling woman in her 40s took to the stage and wished everybody a happy 85% day. Heads turned. Vague looks spread around. 85% day? The speaker went on. Statistically, she said, 85% of New Year’s resolutions were already…
Change fitness follows a normal distribution, like many other aspects of our world. This means the average person has an average amount of change fitness. A small percentage of the population has lots of it and a small percentage of the population has very little of it. I argue that change fitness is acquired via…
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…
This sign has appeared outside London Tube stations and speaks to the realities of life during a pandemic. A few people get the green light to travel and everyone else goes home. But life has never been much different in some ways. Some people travel along life’s tube getting green lights all the way, while…
You Are the Magic Have you ever felt like you’re not very important? I think most of us feel like that from time to time. I know I have – many times. It’s easy to feel down on yourself sometimes. Perhaps you feel no one listens to you or cares what you think. Maybe you…
How useful would it be if you could predict with pinpoint accuracy what will happen in the future? Imagine you could accurately predict the performance of a coaching client over a given time period. Or suppose you could accurately predict how effective any given organisational change approach would be in the long-term. If you could…
The Kubler-Ross Model (of Change) Many people are familiar with the Kubler-Ross model. This model is often cited as a description of how change works – a model of change, if you will. It is commonly used in business circles to show how people in organisations react to change. However, before we embrace the model,…
Growing Success We help organisations and individuals become more successful at change. We do this by developing their capacity to succeed at the change process, helping them get ready for change, and by providing actionable change management processes. If you can’t change, you get stuck. If you’re not agile and adaptable, you can’t be competitive….
Is the change process real? Is there such a thing as the change process? That might sound a strange question because there are hundreds of models of the change process and people have been studying it for decades. But is it a real thing and, if so, what is it? Models of Change Arguably, the…
