Author name: Darryl

Originally written December 18, 2022— Change practitioners – whether one person or a team of professionals, arrive on a change management project through different doors.  Sometimes the practitioner is an internal resource deployed from a Center of Excellence (COE); other times the practitioner is a 1099 worker; or the resource is deployed from a consulting […]

Originally written December 15, 2022— There’s a phrase that I have adopted when thinking about the role of leaders in their sponsorship of organizational change.  Do not confuse a person who is in a power position with an influential leader.  In the case of a change practitioner, we seek to identify specifically influential people, which

Originally written December 13, 2022– Change practitioners sometimes find themselves called in to support or lead a change effort for a business turnaround project. The word “turnaround” evokes a sense of something being “wrong” and there is something that must be corrected. Further, these actions need to be taken with some sense of urgency due

Originally written December 21, 2022— While not every change initiative will be faced with this discussion, many are … the topic of what are we going to “give away” to build awareness and “excitement” to this project?  The discussion starts with who do we give something to – is it the whole company, just the

Originally written December 11, 2022– If there were 5 words that I could share which evoke the widest range of reaction when working with both clients and other consultants on change initiatives … it is these five words.  A major role of any successful change practitioner, especially for the ones that work with the executive