How to keep the impacts of mergers or acquisitions on your people to a minimum

Mergers and acquisitions can be fraught with challenges that are often exacerbated by a focus on process and financials rather than people. Here are six ideas that could help leaders and managers to keep tensions down…

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Do you know the true costs involved when organisational change doesn't go the way you planned?

Sometimes, we need to hear real-life stories of the unintended and unplanned consequences of organisational change going wrong, to understand how to do things better. Here’s a very personal story that illustrates how the simplest thing that hasn’t been considered, can have a big knock-on effect.

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Five ways to help make conversations for change better for everyone involved

There’s a heap of change happening in organisations right now, from mergers or acquisitions to restructures and redundancies. From conversations I’ve had over the last few weeks, here are a few ideas to help leaders make discussions around change easier for everyone involved.

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You’re responsible for leading a change you don’t agree with… what do you do?

One of the most common topics I cover with leaders when we talk about organisational change is about how to get everyone on board with what’s going to be different and keep disruption and worry for everyone involved to a minimum. 

But what happens when a leader isn’t completely on board with a change and may not agree with the decision they need to roll out?

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