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Influence and Organizational Change: Getting Your Way the Right Way

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Six influence tactics are good bets if you want to foster the cooperation necessary to enable organizational change: rational persuasion, inspirational appeal, apprising, collaboration, ingratiation, and consultation. Influence is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to organizational change.

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The Basics of Measuring Organizational Change Success

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Measuring change results can help you to achieve the vision of the change, and support your organization to build its competency in managing and driving organizational change in the future. Take a multi-dimensional view of change success, evaluating completion, achievement, and satisfaction.

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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

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Where's the evidence? A running list of research on change management.

Wendy Hirsch

Organizational Change Failure Rates Is it true that 70-90% of all change efforts fail? Do 70 per cent of all organizational change initiatives really fail? Journal of Change Management , 11 (4), 451-464. CIPD, 2016). Making evidence-based organizational decisions in an uncertain world.

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Change Skills for Leaders: An Overview

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Organizational change doesn’t just happen, it needs to be led. Competent change leadership is associated with a variety of positive outcomes, such as reduced stress and increased openness to change, as well as increased likelihood of change success. The network secrets of great change agents.

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Harness the power of goals to drive performance

Wendy Hirsch

I’ve summarized below what every leader should know about using goals to increase results from organizational change initiatives. Journal of Organizational Behavior , 35 (3), 358-372. Graphics by Wendy Hirsch This article was originally published on January 14, 2016. Goals serve important functions.

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Why do people change (or not change)?

Wendy Hirsch

Most organizational changes require behavior change for success. But how do you encourage people to change how they act or think? Behavior change is a complex process, and influencing it effectively requires intentional effort. A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach.