Summer's Top 150: Change Management

For this second "dump post" of the week, I present you my favourite resources of the summer on change management:

1. Results, Relationships, Leadership and the Brain
2. Why we only listen to what we want to hear
3. 7 Reasons Leaders Fail
4. Bad Leader! Stifling Dissent
5. How to Speak to an Unruly Crowd
6. On Change: Inclination, Motivation, Action
7. So you want to be a Change Agent?
8. The Hazards of Leading Culture Change
9. Don't Give Up on Change
10. In Praise of Non-conformity
11. How leaders embed and transmit culture
12. It's All About Trust
13. Leading Self With Character: Courage
14. Why Should Anyone Be Led By You
15. 5 Positive Leadership Strategies
16. I'll Change If You Tell Me What You Really Want

Some "Must-Read" Posts

A short selection of the finest posts I ran into in the past week:

1. Quiz: Does Your Work Matter to You?
2. The System Is Broken. Will B-Schools Help Fix it?
3. Ducks In A Row: Teams Rule (Staffing)
4. Leaders: Frame Your Messages for Maximum Impact
5. How To Have "Beautiful" PLC and Team Meetings: 12 Ways To Disagree
6. 6 Networking Mistakes And How to Avoid Them
7. How Group Decisions Go Wrong
8. Management skills must include ‘translation’
9. Some irrational thoughts on training and change management
10. Culture Matters
11. The times they are a-changin'
12. 10 Principles of Change Management

Also, I couldn't help to read over and over this quote from the New Zealand public service's Principles for interaction with social media:

"As an agency representative: The protocols that apply when you are acting as an official representative of your agency are the same whether you are talking to the media, speaking at a conference or using social media. Good practice is to disclose your position and that you are representing your agency. You should only disclose information, make commitments or engage in activities when you are authorised to do so. You should remember that your comments will often be permanently available and able to be reproduced in other media."

Hum... where do I fit in this?

Have a good week!

Living Renewal: Powerpoint Available on GCPEDIA

Quite a few people have been asking for the Powerpoint of last week's presentation at the CSPS Armchair Discussion. It is now available on my GCPEDIA page.

Bottom-Up Change: Comments and Feedback

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Bottom-Up Change: Video Rebroadcast

If you couldn't attend the original session taped on December 11, 2008, you will be happy to know that CSPS is rebroadcasting "Bottom-Up Change: It Starts With An Individual" on March 26, 2009, in both French and English.

Go to the CSPS Armchair Discussions website to register!

Living Renewal: Comments and Feeback

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Living Renewal: How to Turn An Organization Around in 1000 Days

It's official! I will be delivering my presentation entitled "Living Renewal: How to Turn An Organization Around in 1000 Days" at the CSPS Armchair Discussion on March 17, 2009, 8:30 to 11:00 (Eastern time).

If you are a federal public servant, you can register:

• Live presentation (Ottawa)
• Webcast

Here's the description:


Living Renewal: How to Turn An Organization Around in 1000 Days

To say the organization was in a poor state would be an understatement – it was a mess! Much of the pride and commitment of the employees had been eroded, if not lost altogether. Relations between management and staff were strained. Everywhere, the organization was preceded by its "bad reputation".

Fast-forward 3 years later: trust has been rebuilt, employees are as dedicated as they ever were, and people are now saying: "If this organization did it, anyone can!". How did this organization renewed itself? What were the steps that lead to organizational healing? What were the big lessons learned? What can you do to make renewal a reality in your organization?

In this presentation, Etienne Laliberté, will tell the story of the renewal lived in his organization over the years, and even share the secrets of how they systematically do staffing in three weeks (yes, that is correct: only three weeks!!!). In the spirit of his article published recently in the magazine Canadian Government Executive, the presentation will also challenge some of the myths around change management and demonstrate how simple - and yet difficult! - turning an organization around can be.

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[Français]

Vivre le renouvellement: comment transformer une organisation en 1000 jours

Ce serait un euphémisme que d’affirmer que l’organisation était en mauvais état – c’était un beau gâchis! La fierté et l’engagement des employés avaient été gravement ébranlés, voire complètement anéantis. Les relations entre la direction et le personnel étaient tendues et partout, la mauvaise réputation de l’organisation la précédait.

Projetons-nous dans le futur, soit trois ans plus tard : la confiance a été restaurée, les employés sont plus dévoués et les gens disent maintenant : « Si cette organisation a réussi tout cela, tout le monde peut y arriver! ». Comment cette organisation est-elle parvenue à se renouveler? Quelles étapes ont mené à cette guérison organisationnelle? Quelles sont les grandes leçons apprises? Que pouvez-vous faire pour faire du renouvellement une réalité dans votre organisation?

Au cours de cette présentation, Étienne Laliberté, nous relatera le déroulement du renouvellement vécu dans son organisation au cours des dernières années, et partagera même comment on y fait de la dotation en trois semaines (oui, vous avez bien lu: seulement trois semaines!!!). Tout comme il le fait dans un article publié récemment dans le magazine Canadian Government Executive, cette présentation s’attaquera aussi aux mythes entourant la gestion du changement et nous démontrera à quel point il est simple - et pourtant si difficile - de transformer une organisation.

Change

Today, I am recommending you a dozen great blog posts on one of my favourite topic: change.

1. The truth about change
2. The secrets of successful change
3. Top-Down Change
4. How To Troubleshoot Change
5. Choosing a Strategy - The Big Leap Forward or Tiny Steps?
6. Three Principles of Change
7. The 6 Drivers of Organisational Change
8. How to keep the company vision strong
9. Moving from a language of destinations to a language of action!
10. How Do You Know If Your Change Will Stick?
11. Improving Communication with a Work Levels, Attractive Leadership Framework
12. Positive Leadership

Also, if I would recommend you a single book to read on change, it would be Deep Change by Robert Quinn. You can have a glimpse of some of Quinn's ideas here.

Please feel free to check out what else is in my library.

Organizational Culture

In the vein of yesterday's post, today I am sharing with you my top 10 blog postings on "organizational culture":

1. Organisational Culture
2. Organizational Culture & Leadership
3. Confusing culture
4. Using Cultural Models to Change Organisational Culture
5. Is there mold growing in your organization?
6. Why Aren’t We Learning? (fully applicable to the current problems in staffing!)
7. Why we need more doubt and less conformity
8. Shaping conversation as a leadership practice
9. High performing cultures share five key values
10. Compelling culture

Got any other resource to recommend?

Living Renewal: Myths and Reality

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my first article in a magazine!

So it's no longer a secret: now you know which organization I work for ;-)

By the way, this article is a shortened version of the introduction and conclusion of my new presentation entitled "Living Renewal: How to Turn An Organization Around in 1000 Days".


Update: February 3, 2009

The article is now available for download in Word format on my "Inconvenient Renewal" sites:

EN: http://sites.google.com/site/aninconvenientrenewal/Home/LivingRenewal-MythsandReality.doc?attredirects=0

FR: http://sites.google.com/site/unrenouvellementquiderange/Home/Vivrelerenouvellement-Mythesetr%C3%A9alit%C3%A9.doc?attredirects=0

Merci!

Etienne