The Workplace Therapist

Getting others to change is no easy task. Whether we are talking about one person or a whole organization, if we want to increase the probability of successful change we have to start the right way. John Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor and the guru of change, recommends that any good change effort should start with a high level of urgency. In essence, what Kotter is suggesting is that we need to give a … Read entire article »

Our challenge this month is how do we to get others to change. In my previous post we focused on the first critical step in any change effort – establishing a compelling “why.” If you’ve successfully completed this first task, you probably have some uncomfortable and anxious folks on your hands. It’s at this point that you want to quickly swoop in with a step-by-step action plan for them to take hold of so they … Read entire article »

If you’ve been following the posts this month, we’re on a mission to get others to change. No easy task. We’ve already laid out the ways to get the urgency rate high and we’ve followed that up with a step-by-step action plan. So our work is done right? Wrong. Just because those individuals we are attempting to change are off working the change plan we’ve provided, it doesn’t mean we are “out of the woods” … Read entire article »

Getting others to change is one of the most difficult (and arguably most impossible) tasks any of us can take on. And yet, each of us possess a list of people in our professional and personal lives that we want to change. Change is hard. Changing others is harder. The reality is that no one can really change another person, but what we can do is motivate, inspire, prod, guide and incent others to change. … Read entire article »