The critical aspect of any change management program is face to face communication. The role of leaders during change is very different from business as usual. It requires a greater physical presence amongst employees to reassure them that their concerns are being heard at the top of the organisation and conversely that the CEO has […]

Peter Senge quoted, “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!” As a consultant, don’t you think this is true? You may have faced several such scenarios in your assignments where people in the client organization try hard to resist changes for obvious reasons. Excuses doled out range from – we are doing well so […]

Many change initiatives fail to meet what they set out to do – so perhaps it is not surprising that this is an area where people look to neuroscience to solve the problems; while it doesn’t have all the answers, neuroscience is shedding light on why change management often ends up being a waste of […]

In the corporate world, most approaches in defining the business value of change involve ‘hard’ benefits such as revenue, cost and time. For example, increased revenue per customer, reduced people cost and improvement in processing time. Yes, there are non-financial benefits such as capability improvement and strategic alignment. However, in practice most tend to focus […]

There has been a flurry of redundancies and right-sizing RFP’s in the last month, as regional organisations prepare for more fiscally challenging market conditions. As companies and government departments face these new commercial headwinds, how do they trim their sails to suit this change in the market weather conditions? Because, the truth is that so […]

For a freelancer, anything that can boost efficiency and/or save time helps to increase income. Here are our top ten apps for making your life easier. 1 Dropbox (Free version available) Dropbox is a cloud-based storage app that will protect your documents if your hardware crashes. Tablet and mobile phone apps let you access your […]

An effective pricing strategy is essential to every business, because one goes into business to make money. Solopreneurs and business owners deserve to be paid just as every worker expects payment for services provided or labor performed. Determining how to price products is fairly straightforward (What is the cost of materials? What is the price […]

If you are reading this, I assume you are already familiar with Fiverr works. You create “gigs,” or small tasks that you will do or sell for $5 each. How in the world, you ask, can anyone make a decent living selling their writing or anything for $5 without working around the clock? The secret […]

The number of tips you include in your booklet matters if you decide to make it matter. You can have a number that simply represents where you ran out of ideas, or the number of tips may become a strategy for your booklets and other products, and services you create, ultimately becoming part of your […]

It is my opinion that the 1967 Camaro is one of the finest muscle cars ever built. It is simply a work of art, an awesome piece of machinery, and a big old slice of Americana. The Camaro is like a woman, it is shaped just right. The long hood and short deck styling gives […]