I thought it was a good idea to to start a business blog to supplement the journal articles I write on change management.
(PDF Articles) I trust that some of the issues raised here may be of interest to you to pursue away from this blog of ideas and thoughts. The blogs run in date order with the most recent at the top of this page.
1 December: In Search of Excellence through Customer Focus
3 December: The Secret behind Corporate & Personal Change
4 December: How Choice and Micro Behaviours is the Key to Mastering Change
5 December: Beaujolais Nouveau : Where is it?
6 December: Micro Behaviours are the Key to Change: Until Behaviour Changes, Nothing Changes
7 December: Excellence & Change Agent Influence
8 December: Unconscious Mastery in Communication
9 December: Body Language & Physiology in Communication
10 December: The Best Style of Influence - Flexibility
11 December: Authenticity & Presentation of Self - 30/31 January 2008
5 November: Identifying Values and predicting Trends in Buying Behaviour
14 November: Hunting for, Prospecting & Acquiring New Business
29 November: Performance Management: Can you give more than 100% Effort?
30 November: Generational & Performance Management: Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials
1 October: Customer Management: Life Time Value
2 October: Customer Focus: Moments of Truth - How are your doing in Shaping Customer Satisfaction?
26 October: Millennials: Attracting, Hiring & Retention
3 September: The No Asshole Rule - Act Your Age not Your Shoe Size
12 September: Response to the No Asshole Rule
20 September: The Costs of being an Asshole
30 September: Lewis Hamilton - Singing in the Rain
25 August: "IF" Kipling: Resilience, Inner Strength, Robustness & Character
15 August: Positive Psychology & Dealing with Disappointment
13 August: Analogy for Life: Landing on an Aircraft Carrier
8 August: Politics of Change
7 August: Is Everybody on Vacation?
5 August: Lewis Hamilton & Politics of the Team
21 July: Presentations & Speech Writing: You Only Have One Opportunity to Make a Good First Impression
20 July: Tour de France or Tour de Farce
19 July: Harry Potter's Leadership Secrets
12 July: "Male, Pale & Stale" : 'Board or Bored' Directors?
10 July: Lewis Hamilton Does It Again
3 July: Synchronicity & the Change Equation
2 July: Congratulations Ann Atkinson
6 June: 8 Steps to Goal Setting: No Danger in over achieving
12 June: "Goal Setting, Lewis Hamilton & the Canadian Grand Prix"
18 June: Lewis Hamilton Wins Again - The Power of Decisions
1 May: Busting Bureaucracy to Delight our Customers
7 May: Everything is a Process: Map Everything to Improve
10 May: Red Tape & Bureaucracy: Take a Good Look in the Mirror
11 May: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement - Kaizen
15 May: A - Z Change Strategies
18 May: Self Reflection: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann, 1920
26 May: Dealing with Difficult People
1 April: New Cultures & Welcoming Change: Response to Trusted Lieutenant Syndrome and the Downfall of CEO's
6 April: Synergy is 1+1=3 and "what goes around comes around!"
9 April: Every Business Needs a sales Culture
11 April: Change Agent Mastery: Navigating Self through Change
13 April: What is Resilience and how do we acquire it?
20 April: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A Favour Dressed up as a Gift
22 April: Junior Chamber International 2007 (JCI)
23 April: Leadership, Politics & The Scottish Election
26 April: Are Leaders Born or Made
27 April: Can We Have Too many Leaders?
2 March: The Thinking that got you to where you are today will not take you to the next level
4 March: Coaching Excellence
6 March: Everything you have and are was created with a simple idea!
7 March: 'Towards' and 'Away From' Motivation
9 March: Weight Loss for the Mind
10 March: 'Sales or Order Takers' - Car Dealerships
11 March: "Brand You"
12 March: Communication is what is received not what is written
13 March: Winning an Oscar using Consultative Selling!
15 March: The 5 Step Creative Process
16 March: "Secondary Gain" : Halting Organisational & Personal Change
22 March: It's Business Prevention Day!
22 March: Trusted Lieutenant Syndrome and the Downfall of CEO's
28 March: Conference: Trends in Customer Behaviour & Multi Channel Delivery
2 February: Managing Performance: Have things really changed in 14 years?
6 February: In Search of Excellence - 25 years to the day
13 February: Moments of Truth
17 February: Strategy on the Wall - Culture on a Stick!
20 February: 'Due Diligence' is the answer……..so what is the question?
21 February: Competitive Edge through Due Diligence
25 February: A relaxing break in France - Legaudin
26 February: Influence to Win - Inverness Marriott
28 February: In Presentations You Get The Audience You Deserve
1 January: Presenting Magically is the Goal
2 January: …..………..and Death Came Seventh
3 January: Words, Tonality and Body Language
4 January: The Amazing Doctor Fox
5 January: Presenting with Power - Know your audience
7 January: Woburn Consulting - a New View of Partnering to create lifetime value and loyalty with Customers
10 January: Moments of Truth (MOT) - what are they?
11 January: Moments of Truth, Kwikfit and Customer Retention
12 January: Is there anything we can learn from Customer Retention and is there a relationship with People Retention?
15 January: Are we only tapping 50% of the potential of our people?
18 January: 'Questions about the Performance Matrix'
20 January: Human Capital - Performance Matrix and a White Paper with Nick Price
29 January: CEO - Chief Energy Officer & Leading Change
1 December: Workshop - the Centre for Confidence
2 December: Welcome Back from India & Visiting the Tate Modern
5 December: Beaujolais Nouveau - Where is it?
6 December: Business Expansion and Acquisitions starting at Tate Modern
7 December: Networking for Value
8 December: Email Etiquette
9 December: Business Blogs: Visit Bob Sutton at Stanford
10 December: Christmas and the New Aerobics
11 December: Leadership is about knowing your people
12 December: Motivating Others & Eric the Fax
13 December: Leadership is like Herding Cats
14 December Behaviours: If you can't measure, it you can't manage it!
15 December: End of Week Before Christmas
16 December: Learning - Running & Team Leading
17 December: Woburn Consulting Group
18 December: Cold Calling & Negative Self Limiting Beliefs
19 December: Focusing on the Future
20 December: Master Matrix Organisation
21 December: The Past does not equal the Future
22 December: Keeping a Journal: Recording Your Life & Learning
23 December: Planning for Achievement in 2007
24 December: Goals, Balance and Compatibility
25 December: Are your life goals compatible with those of your partner?
26 December: Mountain Biking across the Pentlands
27 December: Reflections on the Past Year
28 December: Positive Relationships are Vital
29 December: Relationships, Customer Service & Kwikfit
31 December: Hogmanay & Stretching Targets
1 November: Active Learning with the Institute of Bankers and the Institute of Marketing
2 November: Myths of Networking
3 November: Goal Setting: Everything you are and have today was once just a simple idea
4 November: What can Roger Bannister teach us about Goal Setting?
5 November: Be Ambitious in your goal setting: Bob Geldof and Live Aid
6 November: Focus on Learning & Development in High Value Added Activities for the Business
7 November: Crank Up the Vision - Get it Moving
8 November: Take a Good Look in the Mirror
9 November: Integrating Personal & Organisational Change
10 November: Winning with Rapport: Personality & Objection Handling
11 November: Stretch & Achieve in 2007: Personal Effectiveness & Goal Setting
13 November: Language Patterns: Don't Listen to Your Self Talk
14 November: Using Tonality to convert gentle Questions into instructional Commands
15 November: "Because" is a powerful word………..
16 November: Lessons will be learned!
17 November: Presenting with Confidence
18 November: Poor Preparation for the Business World
19 November: Giving Something Back
20 November: Kilimanjaro & Back
21 November: Change: Fundamentals that lead to Success
22 November: Drive the Momentum for Change
23 November: Culture & the Power of Purpose
24 November: Speed as a Competitive Differentiator
27 November: Culture Change - Does anyone know what it is?
28 November: "When I hear the word Culture I reach for my Gun"
29 November: Speed of Implementation
30 November: A Final Word on Speed as a Competitive Differentiator
10 October: Psychometrics & Profiling
11 October: Technology or People - which drives Change?
13 October: Can we have too much Leadership?
15 October: Neuro Linguistic What?
16 October: Scary - Creating an Army of Change Agents
17 October: Where does 'Ownership' for implementing Change reside?
19 October: Asking the right strategic questions with web design
20 October: Making Change a Success
21 October: Gain a deep understanding of what makes organisations tick
22 October: Learning & Driving
23 October: The Thinking that got us to where we are today will not get us to the next level
26 October: Can a Leopard Change its Spots?
25 October: FOCUS & ENERGY - kick starting a new business
26 October: Start with the end in Mind!
28 October: Self Motivation: What's the best use of my time right now?
29 October: If you knew you could not fail, to what would you aspire?
30 October: A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline
31 October: Stretching Targets - Converting Prospective Customers to Eager Activists
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