Change Management Storytelling: Can the Change, Change Sally’s Story ?
Change Management Storytelling is about Changing Stories of individuals. Change management is defined like this –  It is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes. I personally do not agree with this definition because the conventional approach to change management does not take in to account…

Change Management Storytelling: Don’t be a Change Doctor be a Change Nurse.
Change Management needs more than a knowledge dump. This is about that little insight I had in managing a successful Change Management Storytelling Programme and for anyone who is about to manage change here is my insight for you. A typical change project is managed like this, you put together a pretty power point filled with slides  and you start the “Change…

When your Change Management Process and Strategy don’t go to plan
What do you do when your Change Management Process and Strategy start to derail? Recently, I had an opportunity to work with a leading Telecommunications company in curating* a Change Story as one of the key strategies of their major IT Change Management Plan. My task was to 1. Curate the Change Story involving 9 Business Divisions involving conversations with over 100…

Change Management Storytelling : 3 Little Pigs Make Strategic Choices
Change Management Storytelling requires more than just Conventional Business Rhetoric. This blog is for you if you are of an opinion that persuading people to change on an intellectual basis is enough. I recently worked with a prominent IT company where the brief was to develop a Change Management Narrative to manage significant changes that were being implemented within the business. On…

Change Management Storytelling: Do you communicate like a Whale or Dolphin ?
Change Management Storytelling. How to communicate your change effectively. This blog is for you if you are like Min Lee. Min Lee is responsible for change management communication. At the start of the project Min Lee has created key steps to manage communication on various change activities – Surveys, Leadership Talks, Updates, Engagement Activities etc. Her plan is robust and thought out.…

Storytelling Passes the Productivity Test 4 of 10
When it comes to Enterprise Social Networking (ESN)  which promises to increase an enterprise’s productivity, my experience has been pretty bad. As a result, I didn’t believe they added value but Elena Luk’yanenko who is a Customer Success Manager, APAC,Microsoft,Productivity Cloud Solutions proves me wrong in this cafe chat. Before we begin.. What is Enterprise Social Network (ESN)? “ESN, is like any…

Change Management Storytelling? Don’t Tell, just demonstrate Part 2 of 2
You are responsible for leading a change management project and you believe in that change. Carol Dweck, a researcher at Stanford University describes this belief as a Growth mindset. Contrary to your Growth Mindset, there are people with a Fixed Mindset who don’t believe in the change you wish to implement and are surreptitiously second-guessing and undermining everything you are…