Remain competitive, inspire innovation, and ensure success Constantly adapting, improving, and changing is more important than ever for companies to remain competitive in today’s marketplace. Make Change Work presents real solutions to thriving in a world of constant change. This book educates managers and leaders on how to lead change, with strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change. Get the guidance you need to be bold in the face of change, and learn how to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier—by simply listening to your customers Advises leaders on how to design and implement a strategy that allows you to successfully lead change and deliver meaningful business results Author Randy Pennington is a 20-year business performance veteran, author, and expert in helping organizations build a culture focused on results Learn how to establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work.

This is a book destined for leaders who wish to implement change more intelligently and effortlessly. Drawing on a combination of rigorous research and extensive organizational experience, the authors present a framework for leading change, ?Changing Leadership?, that describes the specific leader practices they have found make the biggest difference between success and failure in implementing high magnitude change. In doing all of this, the leader works to make change happen in the day to day activity and conversations of the organization.

A groundbreaking manifesto, this book challenges traditional notions of change, arguing that successful change is the result of careful diagnosis, analysis, and consideration of "what" to change, "who" to change, and the "context" for the change.

As organizations strive to remain ahead of the competition, there will inevitably and often come the need for change. All successful organizations regularly use change to improve processes and increase performance. While these times of change can be a great opportunity for an organization, it also can be a time of stress and angst for all involved. Not all organizations are in a position to make these changes effectively and efficiently, and for many their efforts often fall short of the intended goals. Making Change Work: Practical Tools for Overcoming Human Resistance to Change was written to help organizations prepare for and successfully implement change. The price of a failed change effort can be steep, both monetarily and in a loss of credibility. Making Change Work will first provide tools to measure your organization's readiness to change, helping make sure that the efforts will not be doomed to fail from the beginning. The book then provides many tools to apply sequentially and logically in order to gain acceptance of the change throughout the organization. In helping your organization make change successfully, Making Change Work addresses buy-in, acceptance, motivation, anticipation, fear, uncertainty, and all the other messy human considerations that cause change to fail in the real world.

Underpinned by decades of research and application, Making Change Work shows that the lynchpin that connects change initiatives and their ultimate success is behavioural change. The book brings together the ROI Institute's established methodology for aligning projects and programmes to business needs and for evaluating impact and ROI with the Turning Learning Into Action methodology developed by Emma Weber to support learning transfer. It offers a step-by-step process that partners with any business initiative requiring behavioural change, providing the critical link bridging the knowledge and application. At the heart of the methodology is a framework for reflective conversation, ensuring accountability and aligning people to the desired outcomes. Cutting through complex change theory, Making Change Work is a 'how to' guide, providing an end-to-end approach to solve the problem that businesses have grappled with for so long from change projects that don't deliver business impact. It includes real life case studies from organizations such as BMW and the University of NSW Department of Innovation on how organizations are using the framework to create successful outcomes that are not just demonstrated but that are delivered and measurable. It is ideal for any professional who is embarking on any organizational initiative requiring change and evaluation of the subsequent ROI, whether it is a learning initiative, quality initiative or change initiative.

Finding the courage to embrace change and take chances is the only way to succeed. Business, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organization haven’t. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows readers how to reignite their career, rekindle their creativity, and fearlessly innovate their way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge they’ll face in life or business. Make Change Work for You opens with an overview of the most common factors that lead to self-defeating behaviors, including fear of failure, embarrassment, underperformance, rejection, confrontation, isolation, and change itself. Using a simple four-part model, Steinberg guides readers to understand and better respond to the challenges that change can bring: Focus: Define the problem and come to understand it objectively. Engage: Interact with the challenge and try a range of solutions. Assess: Review the response(s) generated by your tactics. React: Adjust your strategy accordingly. And, finally, the book shows readers how to develop the vital personal and professional skills required to triumph in the “new normal” by understanding and engaging in the 10 new habits that highly successful people share: 1. Play the Odds 2. Embrace Tomorrow Today 3. Seek Constant Motion 4. Lead, Don’t Follow 5. Never Stop Learning 6. Create Competitive Advantage 7. Connect the Dots 8. Pick Your Battles 9. Set and Align Your Priorities 10. Always Create Value

Dieses »Playbook« ist Ihr umfassender Begleiter für nachhaltig wirksame Veränderungsprozesse. Es ist für alle, die Veränderungen vorantreiben wollen oder sich immer wieder fragen, woran Veränderungen scheitern. Im Fokus stehen Erfolgsfaktoren, praxisorientierte Leitfäden und wertvolle Handlungsempfehlungen um eine kraftvolle Transformationsreise zu gestalten und die Dynamiken, Machtstrukturen und Emotionen anzugehen, die jede Veränderung beeinflussen. Das Buch bereitet fundamentale Change-Prinzipien aus der Psychologie, Soziologie, Systemtheorie verständlich auf und reichert sie um die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaften an. So gelingt »Change that works«, denn in Zeiten wirtschaftlicher Herausforderung und ständigen Wandels kann sich niemand mehr ein Scheitern leisten. Ein erfahrenes Team von über 40 Beratern und Beraterinnen aus sechs europäischen Ländern macht Change bei Themen wie Kultur, Strategie, Innovation, Intrapreneurship, M&A, Digitalisierung und Führung greifbar. Mit 100 Change Tools, die sofort zum Download bereitstehen, steht Ihnen außerdem eine fertige Toolbox zur Verfügung, die es erlaubt, direkt loszulegen. Und dass Veränderung nicht immer bitterernst sein muss, beweisen die Illustrationen des bekannten Cartoonisten Tex Rubinowitz. English This »playbook« is your comprehensive companion for sustainably effective change processes. It is for anyone who wants to drive change or who is constantly asking themselves why change fails. It focuses on success factors, practical guidelines and valuable recommendations for action to create a powerful transformation journey and tackle the dynamics, power structures and emotions that influence every change. The book presents fundamental change principles from psychology, sociology and systems theory in an understandable way and enriches them with the latest findings from neuroscience. That's how we ensure »Change that works«, because in times of economic challenge and constant change, nobody can afford to fail. An experienced team of over 40 consultants from six European countries makes change tangible for topics such as culture, strategy, innovation, intrapreneurship, M&A, digitalization and leadership. With 100 change tools available for immediate download, you also have a ready-to-use toolbox that allows you to get started right away. And the illustrations by well-known cartoonist Tex Rubinowitz prove that change doesn't always have to be dead serious.