Strategic Planning is a very important aspect of business activities and is practiced widely – if not always so satisfactorily. Well designed and executed planning provides an overall strategic direction to the management and employees of an organization and also enables functional areas such as finance, marketing, organizational development, and human resources to achieve [...]

Change Management versus Transition Management
Many people are confused with the difference between “Change Management”, and Transition Management. Change is an external event that is focused on an end result or an outcome, and refers to the endless number of initiatives the organization or business is undertaking in order to ensure the strategy works: the [...]

How you view change affects how you respond to it.  From person to person we look at change differently based on our experience, but even within your daily life, your approach to change will vary with circumstance, state of mind, and whether the change was one you planned or one that was planned for you.  [...]

Every kind of business is now competing in a world in which constant flux is the norm.  Change cannot follow our once-orderly models of “plan, implement, and then sustain.”  People who studied organizations in the 1960s and 1970s were trained in a three-step model posited by Kurt Lewin.
Kurt Lewin developed a three-step model that he [...]

Change is one of those words that can send even the most seasoned manager or business owner into a panic.  Generally it means some level of disruption in your daily operations, or in your plans for the future.  However, it does not have to be that way.  When you really sit down and think about, [...]