Chameleon or Badger? Adapting to Change
When it comes to change, we’re all a bit chameleon and a bit badger: Some of us embrace change and others resist it. But the healthiest strategy is to balance the two approaches. Here are tips on doing that.
Posts Tagged: Change Management
Rethinking Use Cases for AI
Incorporating AI into your agency tasks, processes, systems and culture can be difficult. You need a robust understanding of AI use cases, holistic implementation of AI solutions, and skilled human oversight of AI outputs.
Embracing Mandated Innovation: A Guide for Government Leaders
Change is hard, and nothing changes faster than government work. In the reality of government service, we have a workforce that frequently finds itself navigating seasons of change created by mandates or political shifts. Here are some ways to make it work.
7 Essential Tips for Welcoming a New Senior Leader to Your Organization
Welcoming a new senior leader is a transformative moment for any organization. It provides a unique opportunity to energize your workforce, align with new strategic objectives, and enhance organizational culture.
Share What You Know – It’s Part of Leading Change
These days leaders are on the hook to be more transparent — because in many ways they don’t have a choice. The best advice, then: be intentional about how you are being transparent.
When Resistance Meets Resistance – the Change Leader Trap
Feedback about a new approach isn’t always resistance — but resistance is always feedback.
Knowing When, Where and How to Modernize
Modernization can be a game-changer for government, but there are unique challenges in the public sector. Here’s how one innovator manages the change.
One Way to Mitigate Resistance to Change? Ask, Don’t Tell!
One of the most powerful and inexpensive ways to mitigate resistance to change is by getting stakeholder input early on, and often. Listen to people who will be most affected.
The Importance of Looking Up
Effective change leaders look up often and share what they see “out there” with their teams to inspire a culture of insight and innovation.
Anatomy of a Message … or: What to Say During Times of Change?
Change can be difficult for leaders at all levels to discuss with their teams. What helps? Clear, honest conversations about what will happen, why, who the change affects, and how.