Change management and the brain
Change isn’t only necessary in the business world, it drives success. But the biggest obstacle to change often is internal. Many employees resist change, sometimes for reasons they can’t clearly identify. As a [...]
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Why change management is essential to your sales culture journey
Founded in 1888 by George Eastman, Kodak was the industry leader of photography throughout the 20th century. While its dominance lasted nearly 100 years, Kodak’s failure to adapt to a changing marketplace has become [...]
The essentials of change management
Towards the end of last month, the Federal Reserve published their latest Consumer Compliance Outlook. This issue of the publication includes articles on change management and vendor management relating to flood insurance as well as [...]
Expectations shape reality, but doggone it, this wasn’t what we were expecting!
Last year, we lost Stormy, our sweet 11-year-old lab, to cancer. So my husband Mike and I started talking about getting a companion for Jack, our 10-year-old labradoodle. We had even thrown around some cute [...]
Leadership: Don’t leave it to amateurs
If you were to describe your leadership style, what would you say? If you were to define the leadership style of your credit union what adjectives would you use? Like it or not, we all [...]
What can we learn from the history of change management?
Change management, as a formal discipline, has been around since the 1990’s. However references to change and change management can be found in the psychological literature more than 40 years earlier. Psychologists described “change” [...]
Insiders guide to credit union managed security
In our recent post, “5 Steps To Build Your Credit Union Cloud” we outlined a very deliberate and strategic path to move your credit union to the cloud. We explained how managed services are giving [...]
Change leadership in 8 steps
All teams have three participants: change agents, change neutrals and change resistors. The key to leading change is empowering the change agents, influencing the change equivocators and helping the change resistors understand the WIIFM (what’[...]
Strategy and execution help to ensure a sustainable future
When a Credit Union embraces sustainability as a part of its core values or ethos, it reaches far beyond its facilities and becomes a clear part of “who we are” and “why are we here.” [...]
7 Reasons Teams Can’t Just Get Over It
by. Matt Monge Yesterday we looked briefly at employees — humans — working through change, as well as the notion that they could “just get over it.” Here are a few of the reasons I’m just [...]