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Is change management an art or a science?
In the varied and diverse field of change management, change practitioners have a wide range of skills and responsibilities that drive organisations towards successful, sustainable change. From recent attendance at an event about Scientific Mindset in Organisational Change I was inspired by Alex Boulting to reflect on where our varied discipline sits on the dichotomy between art and science.
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What's the point of being human?
First published on the 24th of February in The MJ. Purpose and humanity - the meaning of life? The reason you get out of bed in the morning? Or don’t? Local authorities can’t (and often don’t) resist the urge to put people at the heart of their strap lines – but are they really at the heart of our post-pandemic plans? We’ve researched local government change over the last 18-months and we’ve found six key ingredients needed to drive successful transformation.
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Five top tips on taking action that we learnt from managing change during COVID
Pre-COVID, it was quite difficult to get traction and make things happen. COVID brought us together and change happened fast. Our White Paper on Managing Change During the COVID-19 crisis identified those pre-existing relationships with partnership bodies that were able to quickly marshal and share resources. In the absence of bureaucracy, plans, paperwork and service level agreements, people came together and worked to achieve shared aims and goals.
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What is the one mistake that change leaders often make?
Lucy Trueman, MD, recounts a time in the beginning of her career when she helped a team to automate part of their invoicing process. She designed a digital tool for them that cut their processing time in half. After weeks of using the tool, Lucy visited the office and noticed lots of paper invoices laying around and saw that the company had adopted her new system while carrying on with their old, inefficient one.
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Five Important Tips for Empowering Neurodiversity for Meaningful Inclusion
There are five important tips that leaders would benefit from knowing and implementing to ensure not only that inclusion exists in the workplace but that it is also meaningful to the employee and impacts positively on organisational change.
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Making Meaningful Change Happen in the Public Sector
Making change happen meaningfully requires you to stand back and take a good look at what the purpose of the change really is. This isn't always easy. So how did we manage to do it so well during the COVID-19 pandemic and what can we learn from this? Also on Spotify, Apple Podcast App, and online at Public Sector Executive.
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Change Chat- Collaboration and co-design in change programmes
Collaboration and co-design are key to success, and a core part of the Trueman Change approach to organisational change.
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Does viewing transformation and continuous improvement as separate entities affect consistency in the change process?
Change management is an overarching but varied discipline, with many intricacies and complexities, as all of us in the field know all too well. Often, when we think about change management, we tend to think that it’s a split discipline with separate ‘strands’; change in terms of transformative work and then change in terms of ongoing improvement. True, wouldn’t you say?
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Citizen Engagement and Closing the Digitally Excluded Gap
Lydia, our communications specialist, discusses the misconceptions around digitally excluded groups.
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We know what good change looks like, so how do we keep it going?
We have learned from how the public sector dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic that change can happen positively, and people can truly enjoy the process, with successful outcomes for whole communities. How do we keep this up?
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Three Common Mistakes - Collaboration & Partnership Working
Our principal consultant, Rachael, discusses three common mistakes we see organisations making when working collaboratively.
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Understanding the Digital Divide
Last week, at the Cooperative Councils’ Innovation Network annual conference, CCIN published a report on their policy lab approach to the digital divide. Questions we'll be answering: - What is digital exclusion? - What do we know about digital exclusion? - What can we do to help? -How can we learn more?
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Our Managing Director, Lucy Trueman, introduces our latest white paper, 'Lessons From Lockdown: Managing Change During the COVID-19 Crisis'
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