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The Future of Project Management – an evening with Paul Major

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The Eastern Branch of the APM held a very enjoyable evening seminar on the future of project management with Paul Major (@changemakerPM, http://paulmajor.wordpress.com) on Wednesday 7th November. I captured Paul’s main points, and the course of the discussion in a series of tweets, which I’ve reproduced here with some additional notes. Shifted from delivering transformational change …

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Why is employee engagement such an important topic?

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By Elisabeth Goodman My blog on employee engagement (Employee engagement – some interesting data and perspectives for Lean and Six Sigma practitioners) is, of all the blogs that I have written since 2009), the one that has attracted the most attention.  I wrote it in response to an article I read in the business section …

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What can Lean and Six Sigma and Dilts’ Logical Levels of Change bring to effective change management?

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh This is the fifth and last blog in our series on “Enhancing Team Effectiveness in a time of change” based on our recent publication in Business Information Review(1), and other publications and seminars in progress.  We explore two last tools: Lean and Six Sigma in Change Management and Dilts’ …

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Team development, pre-requisites for success and temperature checks: tools for effective change management

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh This is the fourth in our series of blogs on “Enhancing Team Effectiveness in a time of change” based on our recent publication in Business Information Review(1), and other publications and seminars in progress. In our first blog (Enhancing team effectiveness in a time of change – an introduction), …

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Tools for supporting teams during their journeys through change

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By Elisabeth Goodman and Lucy Loh This is the third in our series of blogs on “Enhancing Team Effectiveness in a time of change” based on our forthcoming publication in Business Information Review, and other publications and seminars in progress. In our first blog (Enhancing team effectiveness in a time of change – an introduction), …

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Top Tips for Motivating Teams

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By Sue Parsons1 When times are tough, some teams sink into lethargy, feeling anxious about the future. Alternatively, the business may have been restructured or downsized, with the remaining team members feeling vulnerable for their own positions. Whatever the cause, it’s exactly at these times, that teams need to feel valued and motivated. There are …

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Knowledge Strategy – one of two #NetIKX51 break-out discussions

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By Elisabeth Goodman Knowledge Strategy was the theme of one of the two break-out groups at NetIKX’s 22nd September 2011 seminar led by Chris Collison. (For a more detailed account of the seminar itself, you may like to read Nicola Franklin’s NetIKX blog, or for a more cursory insight, Elisabeth’s NetIKX51 tweets.) A knowledge management …

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Tweets from 18 May NetIKX / CLSIG seminar on making the most of Sharepoint

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The NetIKX chair, Suzanne Burge (@suzanne_london), gave me the idea of collating my tweets @ecgoodman for further reference.  So here they are, in original form, and of course to be read in reverse order! #NetIKX49 another write-up of the #Sharepoint seminar @tfpl_Ltd http://ow.ly/50qBe #NetIKX49 Write-up of #Sharepoint seminar by @Valskelton http://ow.ly/50qy0 Noeleen Schenk doing final …

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2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (1 of 2)

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Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (1 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 This was the second of IQPC’s specialist conferences on this theme, and as last time2, many of those questioned by the authors were finding it of real value for learning about …

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Why thinking in terms of burning platforms and tipping points is not sufficient to drive change

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The term ‘burning platform’ has its origins in a real life/death scenario faced by an oil worker in the North Sea and now commonly used to help change agents and stakeholders articulate organisational or personal motivation (WIIFM – What’s In It For Me) for change. ‘Burning platforms’ form the basis of ‘sticky’ or unresistable messages …

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