Change is often done poorly. This is because the focus is often on process and not people. Organisational change is about changing people, not processes.
2. Unit 1—Giving Effective
Feedback
Unit 2—Performance
Boosting Conversations
Unit 3—Dealing Effectively
With Conflict
Unit 4—Facilitating Great
Meetings
Unit 5—Influencing Anybody
About Anything
Unit 6—Leading Change
Successfully
3. Baker, T. (2015) The New Influencing Toolkit
Influencing Capabilities
Framework
7. • Accept this inevitable phase
• Give time to get through this phase
• Hard on the change issues & soft on
the people affected by it
• Provide information on the change
Rejection Tips
8. Focus on the future
Acknowledge resistance
Listen, acknowledge & support
Note the transition between
resistance & exploration
Resistance Tips
9. • Be aware that your people will
enter this phase at different times
• Seek the support of those people
who have successful entered the
exploration phase
• Facilitate, coach and support
Reformation Tips
10. Review progress
Celebrate
Recognise & acknowledge commitment
Mentoring
Team development
Responsive Tips
22. Unit 1—Giving Effective
Feedback
Unit 2—Performance
Boosting Conversations
Unit 3—Dealing Effectively
With Conflict
Unit 4—Facilitating Great
Meetings
Unit 5—Influencing Anybody
About Anything
Unit 6—Leading Change
Successfully
Notes de l'éditeur
Warren Bennis identified the “management of attention” as one of the core competencies of highly successful leaders. How do we improve your ability to manage your attention?
Three things help with the management of attention:
Reduce manageable distractions
Multi-tasking is not efficient. Shifting from one activity to the next can give the illusion of efficiency. But you are short changing yourself on both activities.
Focus on one conversation at a time.
If the conversation is worth having, it is worth your complete undivided attention.
Identify your most attentive time of the day.
Important conversations ought to take place in high energy times. Ask yourself: How present am I in this conversation?
“You’ll get told on a need to know basis” is a common refrain from a manager with a traditional psychological contract mindset.
This idea is borne out of the notion that employees can’t be trusted with confidential information. The assumption is that managers can be trusted, but employees can’t. This is erroneous.
Granted, there are more employees than managers, but the idea of not communicating because of a lack of trust is a barrier to genuine, open dialogue.
It is a two-way street too: Employees have to be willing to share bad news to managers too.
Australian managers are worst in the world at giving timely, relevant, and balanced feedback.
Feedback ought to be a dialogue, not a monologue.
Tell the story of the 19 year old employee who received no feedback.
Discuss the concept of managers being trained to answer questions not ask them.
Talk about the story of the accident in the production area.
The person who asks the questions has control of the conversation always. Show me a good conversationalist, and I’ll show you someone who asks lots of questions.
Conversations in the bosses office are not necessarily going to be the best conversations.
In paramilitary organizations based on power, conversations can be accompanied by lots of paperwork and red tape. This stifles conversation.
The best conversations ironically occur around the watercooler, in the hallways, in the car driving back from a client or customer meeting.
The average person spends 2.5 hours a day on email.
What would those 2.5 hours be spend doing before email? Conversation?
Having a conversation via email is not a real conversation; it is asynchronous; the sending and receiving doesn’t happen at the same time.
Would this be best discussed in person or via the telephone?
“I don’t want to open a can of worms” “let sleeping dogs lie”
Talk about the story of the orchestra: two musicians have not spoken to each other for 10 years.
There are two issues here with physical layout: proximity and layout.
Proximity refers to the relative physical distance between people.
Layout in the office environment; the further someone is from the centre of the action, the more likely they are to be less involved and engaged in the daily operations.
We have found interestingly, that the move in recent times to open office plans do encourage open communication, but because people can be heard due to lack of privacy, there is less meaningful interactions.
Managers often say to me “I have an open door policy”; I feel like saying, “Yes, but do you have an open mind?”