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Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills in Your Team

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…

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The Importance of Balancing Different Thinking Styles in an Organisation

In a thriving organisation, balancing different thinking styles is crucial for success. Here’s why: In essence, balancing different thinking styles creates a dynamic, innovative, and resilient organisation. #Leadership #Innovation #Teamwork #BusinessStrategy #OrganisationalDevelopment

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The Origins of Balanced Behaviours in Organisations

Balanced behaviours are the cornerstone of a thriving organisation. They stem from balanced thinking, fairness, and a broad perspective. Here’s why these elements are crucial: Why It Matters: Balanced behaviours are essential for creating a dynamic, fair, and forward-thinking organisation. By fostering balanced thinking, fairness, and a broad perspective, we can build a foundation for…

Positioned to Learn

We often think of change – especially organisational change – as something to be implemented and managed. Change is what happens in the organisational machinery, and in the context within which the organisation operates. Viewed this way, the people that shape or are affected by changes are called stakeholders. Stakeholders are important because they have…

Why Agility Is Important

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…

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Are We Leading Change with the Wrong Framework?

Think of the term ‘change management’. What framework is implicitly related to that term? Obviously, it’s the management framework. Accordingly, change management is one type of management. ‘Management’ is the broad framework and ‘change management’ is a subset of that framework. But when we talk of management or change management, what we mean is a…

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How to Create Successful Change

In 2010, McKinsey reported the findings of a huge study involving more than 315,000 respondents. They found that 75% of organisations were experiencing change and that 70% of change initiatives were regarded as unsuccessful. Hundreds of other studies corroborate the 70% failure rate statistic. This statistic is often cited in the change management community as…