Introducing Change Thinking— A community of advanced practitioners pursuing...
Despite all the business change knowledge uncovered during the last 50 years, many seasoned change management professionals still aren’t adequately prepared to serve those trying to navigate their...
View ArticleExploring a Project’s “Degree of Difficulty” (Part 2 of 5)
Three key factors—How much change? What’s the desired result? How crucial is it to succeed?—help determine a change initiative’s Degree of Difficulty. Let’s look at these in detail. DETERMINING HOW...
View ArticleAssessing Your Initiative’s Degree of Difficulty (Part 3 of 5)
One of the ways agents can bolster their credibility with sponsors is by not coming across as eager to apply implementation assistance to every initiative that surfaces. This can be accomplished by...
View ArticleThe Change Practitioner’s Role in Encouraging the Right Kind of Due Diligence...
I hope this blog provides all its readers with a vehicle for sharing not only ideas but tools and techniques as well. At Conner Partners, we use an assessment tool to help us evaluate the overall...
View ArticleEssential Truths About Sponsorship
Of the four primary roles in the change process (sponsors, agents, targets, and advocates), none is as crucial to successful realization of change as that of sponsor. Yet, as practitioners, we often...
View ArticleHow to Spot (and Help) a Good Sponsor
In the last two posts, we’ve examined things about sponsorship that many of us believe to be true. We’re also looking into why we sometimes stray from these axioms when we design interventions and/or...
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