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Habit Forming IN Magazine (Nov 2023)

"Let me show you the new office!" A Friend Fizzed with pride when it came to giving a preview of the new post-pandemic office layout at her big-name technology company.  What stood out during a short virtual tour was how she was focused solely on the newly configured collaboration and social spaces...

Is There Ever Genuinely A Good or Bad Time for Change?  Workplace Insight Magazine (Sept 2023)

There are two questions, regarding change, that seem to plague quite a lot of people:  “is there a good or bad time for change and is there a good or bad change?” Now it may seem the answers would be quite straight forward , but probably as no surprise the actual answer is “it all depends”...

What are the main issues that stop people embracing change? Workplace Insight Magazine (June 2023)

Many times we talk about resistance – the resistance to change – how we manage it, the reluctance of having to deal with it, the disruption it causes either positively or negatively.  But rarely do we talk about why people are resisting. Taking a people centric approach means looking at resistance to change through a different lens ...

Do You Have a Crystal Ball in Leading Change? Workplace Insight Magazine (April 2023)

If you think about a change that is happening to you, in some way, right now – how are you feeling?  Are you feeling scared, anxious, worried or happy, excited, looking forward to it? The same thing happens with a workplace change.  Some people like the old ways of working because they are use to them,  whereas others are looking forward to the new ways of working ...

Do You Walk or Talk People Centric Change for Success?  Workplace Insight Magazine (February 2023)

In previous articles, I shared that there is a McKinsey report...With that said, organisations can no longer afford to get change wrong – they have to get it right and right now. And one way of doing this is to focus on people centric change ...

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Why Should Anyone Care About Your Change, Workplace Insight Magazine  (October 2022)

Whenever I first meet a potential client or am brought onto a new change project, there are three questions I ask:  why, why now and why should anyone care about your change? ...

Is Change Your Enemy or Your Friend? Workplace Insight Magazine (July 2022)

Is change your friend or your enemy?  If you are a young person leaving home for the first time and are excited about the prospects of striking out on your own – change is most likely your friend.  But if you are the parent, watching your child leave the nest, and your close protection, then change could very possibly be your enemy ...

Hybrid Working and How We Escape the Constraints of Leadership, Workplace Insight Magazine (April 2022)

What are the constraints, the “ropes”, of organisational change?  They are a mix of the internal and external, the hard and soft – covering everything from industry regulation through to layers of company policy and customary practice, but what’s being constrained? ...

Building Resilience in a Changing Environment, Workplace Insight Magazine  (February 2022)

For decades, it has been agreed that change is a constant.  So doesn’t it stand to reason that before a change or crisis happens, an organization should have the ability/resilience to transform? ...

Successfully Managing Change in the Workplace, Corporate Real Estate Journal 8.1 (October 2018)

To really invoke change and enable people to adopt to a new way of working, this paper highlights the role of communication, what is change management and gives a demonstration of the ABChange model which enables leaders to manager their people effectively through change ...

No More Workface, 
AECOM Blogs 
(August 2014)

For the future workplace, I started to think that leaders and managers may not only need to look to define boundaries from a task perspective, but also in a behavioural and personality arena ...

Journey of Leadership in the Workplace, iCroner (June 2014)

For well over 100 years, the workplace and environment in which we work has constantly evolved along with the skills required by managers and leaders of organisations. I have argued in this article that we can confidently anticipate that employees will be motivated
by methods that involve the whole person, not just one aspect of them as people ...

Lead Behaviour, Coaching at Work (July 2012)

The ABChange Model doesn't tell leaders how to lead change - it shows them how to lead change effectively.  When faced with company upheavals and external re-modelling, such clarity is invaluable ...

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