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The articles and webinars below support the content of the Anderson\u2019s best-selling books on organizational change, Beyond Change Management<\/em><\/a> and The Change Leader\u2019s Roadmap<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Articles<\/h3>\n

Ten Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change
\n<\/a><\/strong>Increase your success by avoiding these common change leadership mistakes. This paper outlines our most current findings from our thirty year action research project on what causes failure and success in large scale transformational change.<\/p>\n

Awake at the Wheel: Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Change Leadership <\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article provides a good overview of why change management is insufficient to lead transformational change, and introduces key foundations of conscious change leadership for successful organizational change.<\/p>\n

Building Your Change Strategy: How to Ensure that Your Effort Is on the Right Track<\/a><\/strong>
\nDo you ever wonder, \u201cAre we attending to all the necessary areas for successful organizational change?\u201d This article outlines the ten key elements of an effective change strategy so you won\u2019t overlook critical success factors.<\/p>\n

Change Leadership: Minimizing the Chaos of Transformation<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article outlines four best practices to minimize chaos during transformational change\u00a0and keep your change efforts from spinning out of control: 1) project integration, 2) timelines and change capacity, 3) human and organizational culture dynamics, and 4) real stakeholder engagement.<\/p>\n

Designing Your Engagement Strategy<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis highly pragmatic tool walks you through the critical steps for building an effective stakeholder engagement strategy. Also see the article, \u201cStakeholder Engagement: Opportunities, Types, and Vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do Your Leaders Have the Mindset to Succeed at Transformation?<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article provides an excellent overview of why change leadership mindset is so critical, examples of the mindsets that limit change success, and why introspection is essential to delivering real transformation.<\/p>\n

Driving Organizational Culture Change through Co-Creative Change Leadership <\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article outlines how the mindset shift that places the interests of the whole enterprise above individual self-interest is a key driver of organizational culture change.<\/p>\n

Ensuring Your Organization\u2019s Capacity to Change<\/a><\/strong>
\nLearn effective ways to address the change capacity challenges you face when you unleash change on an organization that is already running at full throttle.<\/p>\n

Get Real: Plan for the True Magnitude of Change<\/a><\/strong>
\nWith their own capacity to change\u00a0limitations, leaders often announce a major organizational change without fully thinking through what is really required to get it done. These five disciplines will help you and your leaders identify the true magnitude of organizational change that you face.<\/p>\n

Getting Smart About Employee Resistance to Change, Part One<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article outlines what causes employee resistance, what resolves it, and how to work with it to maximize the results you achieve in your organizational change efforts. It provides insight about how to deal with the deep-seated resistance catalyzed by peoples’ core psychological issues, and how you can work with these substantial mental, emotional and behavioral forces to make your organizational change efforts more successful.<\/p>\n

Getting Smart About Employee Resistance to Change, Part Two<\/a><\/strong>
\nContinuing from part one, this article expands the exploration into what causes employee resistance and how best to resolve it.\u00a0Many organizational\u00a0change efforts stall before the future state has been successfully implemented. These four tips will keep this from happening in the change efforts that you lead.<\/p>\n

How Command and Control as a Change Leadership Style Causes Transformational Change Efforts to Fail <\/strong><\/a>
\nThis is a thought-provoking article for leaders to evaluate how their style may be damaging their efforts to succeed at transformational change.<\/p>\n

How to Increase Employee Commitment to Change <\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article provides an invaluable tool for articulating what is driving your change so your employees can fully understand and commit to it.<\/p>\n

Six Faulty Assumptions about Organizational Change Communications <\/a><\/strong>
\nAll change managers know that the quality of change communications has a significant impact on organizational change results. This article de-mystifies change communications, outlines the mis-perceptions that most leaders make, and provides insights that deliver increased success.<\/p>\n

Stakeholder Engagement: Opportunities, Types, and Vehicles <\/strong><\/a>
\nThis most popular article outlines the key opportunities for stakeholder engagement in any organizational change effort. It includes a framework for sorting through who to engage, in what activities, and in what ways. This information will make building your stakeholder engagement strategy far easier. Also see the article, \u201cDesigning Your Stakeholder Engagement Strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is Transformation, and Why Is It So Hard to Manage?<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis article outlines the three types of change and their implications on the workforce.<\/p>\n

Why Leading Transformation Successfully Requires a Shift of Leadership Mindset<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis article explains why transforming leadership mindset is a critical requirement of all successful transformational change efforts.<\/p>\n

Webinars<\/h3>\n

The Human Dynamics of Change Part 1: Turning Resistance into Commitment<\/strong>
\nIn this webinar, Dean Anderson provides insight and methods for assisting employees to move out of resistance to full commitment to their organization\u2019s change efforts. He explores core human need and how they \u201ccause\u201d resistance, and the emotional transitions people go through to move through resistance.
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