by Susan Richards | Sep 30, 2015 | Human Resources Change Management
Stacey Harris’s presentation at IHRIM last week (The Quantified Organization: Data-Driven HR Functions) provided many interesting insights from Sierra-Cedar’s 2014-2015 HR Systems Survey, not the least of which was this finding: Organizations that invest...
by Susan Richards | Apr 20, 2015 | Human Resources Change Management
Change management ensures that organizational initiatives—from simple process changes to major initiatives like culture or system changes—are implemented fully and efficiently, achieving the desired results. Change management does that by analyzing and addressing the...
by Susan Richards | Mar 30, 2015 | Human Resources Change Management
Compared to the complex topics addressed in this series to date, our current post—the availability of resources to fulfill change management roles—may appear wonderfully straightforward. Identifying team members, assigning individuals to positions and...
by Susan Richards | Feb 18, 2015 | Human Resources Change Management
“Change is never painful. Only the resistance to change is painful.” Buddha A recent article by Karl Moore, Ph.D. for Forbes spins a tale about a fictional company, “Inflexco,” that has just acquired a significant new customer. Inflexco’s elated CEO...
by Susan Richards | Jan 27, 2015 | Human Resources Change Management
Most discussions of change readiness focus on people and culture. Change experts characterize the organization as a collection of individuals who, together, will be eager and able to change, if only leaders build support for the change initiative, model new behaviors,...
by Susan Richards | Dec 1, 2014 | Human Resources Change Management
“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett The quotes above, admittedly out of context, illustrate a wide divergence in individual...
