In today’s competitive business environment, fostering higher-order thinking skills within your team is essential for innovation, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making. Higher-order thinking involves analysis, evaluation, and creation, going beyond basic comprehension and recall. Here are some strategies to develop these skills in your team: 1. Encourage Critical Thinking 2. Foster Analytical Skills 3. Promote Creative…
The world is a very volatile place right now. Long-standing commercial and economic allegiances are under threat. AI models vie for supremacy, scarce funding, and survival. Wars drag on with little hope of lasting peace. Uncertainty about the future disrupts world trade and economic forecasting. Advances in AI agents and humanoid robotics, rising cost-of-living pressures,…
There are some things you don’t want to leave to chance. One of them is how ready your organisation is to face future challenges. We all like to think we will be okay, which can lead to what some call ‘change blindness’. We get so used to what is around us we fail to see…
Did you know that your organisation’s change readiness depends on what and how people think? We could express this relationship in as simple formula: WT + HT = CR The WT part of that equation refers to what people believe to be true – about themselves, other people, the context in which they operate, and…
For Steve Barlow, the pathway to change readiness began in prison. Now, don’t jump to any hasty conclusions! Steve worked in prisoner rehabilitation in a maximum security prison in Sydney – he delivered anger management and conflict resolution programs to inmates. It was during this time that he became interested in change readiness. Why? Because…
How we look at things determines what we see. Some industries appear monolithic. When we consider the health industry, the image of multi-storey hospitals comes to mind. We think of designated wards, operating theatres, and expensive machines. These huge buildings are the institutional face of healthcare – a blend of humanitarian approachability and scientific distance….
Change readiness problems within an organisation decrease engagement, lower expectations of success, promote frustration and fear, and impoverish outcomes. Where do these problems come from? What can be done about them? Organisations consist of multiple and often complex systems working together. When we attempt to analyse the root causes of change readiness problems, we need…
The concepts of change readiness and change management are related because they both deal with change. But in what ways are they different and how should we think about each of them? Here’s an analogy that will help us understand the differences. Imagine you wanted to repaint an old house. The walls are dirty and…
There has been much discussion lately about progress with AI, like Chat GPT and other competitor systems. There’s no doubt this technology has made huge advances in recent years, and we are only at the beginning of an entirely new era. As it develops, AI based technologies will transform many aspects of our lives and…
Since the launch of Chat GPT, there has been much debate about how AI will impact the workplace and how it could replace human workers. Business leaders like Elon Musk have been warning about the risks of AI for some time. It is difficult, if not impossible, to predict how this will pan out. Perhaps…
