In an earlier post I shared some effective ground rules that your team can use to get along and be productive. I’m sure many of you have more good team guidelines that have worked for you – and I’d encourage you to agree on a similar list when you kick off your next team project. [...]
Anyone who’s participated on a project in a team setting has probably heard the term “ground rules” tossed around. Sometime the term applies to a useful set of axioms that cooperative team members follow to guide their civil and productive interaction. Sometimes it refers to a nice poster on the wall of all company conference [...]
Just a note of thanks to a pair of readers from Sioux Falls and Pukwana, South Dakota in the USA for stopping by theBigRocks.com this past week! Why It’s a Big Deal: That’s significant because with these two visits from the Mount Rushmore State, theBigRocks.com has now welcomed guests from all 50 US states plus [...]
What myth is blocking your team from realizing breakthrough innovation? This month’s issue of Fortune magazine contains an interesting interview with Bob Stoffel, a Senior Vice President of UPS. One of the most fascinating things he discusses in the interview is the now-famous no-left-turn rule that all UPS drivers follow. Here’s how it works: UPS [...]
Today’s post is a question regarding sponsorship of change: What’s the most important thing a Change Sponsor can do to ensure a change is successful? As always, vote early and often… and don’t hesitate to comment and forward the link to others. -Steve
I read a great article on ZDNet which recapped lessons that organizations can learn from the recent SAP implementation disaster in Marin County, California. I also listened in on a very good web seminar a while back on the same topic that was hosted by an ERP consulting company called Panorama. A quick note before [...]
In my last article, I extolled the virtues of using a team website to keep everyone on your team in the loop. But exactly what information should be kept on a team website? What’s critical and what’s just “nice to have”? These are the topics of today’s post. What’s It All About? There are dozens [...]
One of the biggest challenges faced by project leaders and their teams can be keeping all of their stakeholders “in the loop”. This is true of all projects – but it’s especially critical for teams involved in guiding change, since any loss of continuity can have a negative impact on your shared goal of change [...]
In my last post I introduced a concept called the Change Adoption Curve that many Organizational Change Management experts use to illustrate the cycle people tend to go through as they adapt to change. I listed several assumptions about the curve that you should watch for when using it. Today I’ll address how you can [...]
One of the more useful concepts that has come out of the formal study of Organizational Change Management is the simple idea that people go through a predictable cycle as they adopt or reject a change. By anticipating how people will go through this transition, a Change Agent can help stakeholders by giving them what [...]
Shoot or Dish the Rock? That’s the question facing every basketball player each time they touch the ball. I love to watch basketball – especially at the college level where the athletes are talented enough to dazzle us yet still inexperienced enough to make crushing mistakes on a national television stage. And what’s the most [...]
One of my favorite lines from the classic comedy movie Airplane takes place as passenger-turned-emergency pilot Ted Striker – who’s at a loss for how to land a damaged aircraft – begs another passenger Dr. Rumack for ideas: Ted Striker: Surely there must be something you can do. Dr. Rumack: I am doing everything I [...]
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