Welcome to Shaping Change
So you want to change something about your organisation. Maybe you are a leader who needs to prepare people for a big change in the pipeline. Perhaps you want to see a culture shaped more towards different kinds of values.
How do you go about it?
This lens pulls together resources about Shaping Change in organisations. 'Change Management' or 'Organisational Development' is a large and sometimes confusing field management.
We've put together here some references, ideas and resources that make help you make some sense of it, if you are a beginner, and especially if you are finding yourself having to lead others through change.
Whether you think you must make good changes happen in your organisation, lead them, or change just happens, I hope you will find something useful here.
How do you go about it?
This lens pulls together resources about Shaping Change in organisations. 'Change Management' or 'Organisational Development' is a large and sometimes confusing field management.
We've put together here some references, ideas and resources that make help you make some sense of it, if you are a beginner, and especially if you are finding yourself having to lead others through change.
Whether you think you must make good changes happen in your organisation, lead them, or change just happens, I hope you will find something useful here.
Useful Links on Shaping Change
- Shaping Change Workshop
- It won't change the world, but our one day workshop will give a rapid induction and orientation to this whole field. You come away with some useful tools and approaches.
- Principles of Change Management
- An accredited 3-day programme including the exam in the Principles of Change Management. This course takes you through:
- Change and the Individual
- Change and the Team
- Change and the Organisation
- Leading Change. - When a great project is just not enough
- An article I wrote on the necessary change leadership beyond a project.
- Change or Die
- A very important article that generated much interest when it was first published. I have gone on to embed the summary in this article into a short presentation that goes down well with clients.
- Outlook For Change Blog
- Managing Organizational and Social Change
A useful blog partly written by Graham Dover, someone whom I have worked with in the past and whom I rate as a clear and original thinker. - Technobility Blog
- Peter de Jager's Blog.
- Making change stick
- From Jeffrey Phillips' "Thinking Faster" Blog.
- Peter de Jager's Managing Change Management library resource articles soft Skills Podcast Blog Technobility
- Peter writes:"Managing Change? There is no management activity more misunderstood, abused and ignored than the act of implementing Change. Some have even suggested that the phrase "Change Management" is an oxymoron." It includes some stimulating articles on Change Management.
- World Café
- A useful resource site for anyone wishing to explore the World Cafe process.
- Change is Good: Interview with Ariane de Bonvoisin
- Guy Kawasaki interviewing Ariane de Bonvoisin, the founder and CEO of The First Thirty Days, Inc. Some useful insights here into change from the perspective of each one of us.
Shaping Change Books
Some of the best published resources
These are some titles I would say are very helpful to anyone wanting to shape change.
Some Resources on Shaping Change
More books and resources I have found useful
The more well read you are, the more versatile and robust you can be in leading any change.
Shaping Change Amazon Voting (Plexo)
Some book resource I've found helpful
Vote on titles that I list here and change the order.
Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools & Techniques of Organizational Change by Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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Leading Change by John P. Kotter
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World Cafe
A useful video explaining and illustrating this technique.
Juanita Brown and David Isaacs created the World Cafe workshops to evoke collective intelligence and link it to effective action.
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Here you will find some helpful video explanations on concepts and techniques in shaping change.
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