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January
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2021
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
December
14
2020
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
December09
2020
Manage your culture to successfully emerge from Covid-19.
Culture. As a leader, it should be top of your mind now more than ever. Culture will largely determine your ability to “re-emerge or restart” business after Covid-19. How agile, innovative and productive your organisation will be in the new work environment post-Covid-19 is almost exclusively determined by your organisational culture. But to manage it, you need to measure it. The bad news? Culture is a strange beast, elusive and difficult to label. The good news? proCulture® is there to help. If you wish to understand and pivot your culture, look no further. Organisational culture matters more than ever Culture, a classic component of change success. First, let’s look at the evidence. Research conducted by McKinsey shows that 70% of project failures “are due to culture-related issues”. Not for nothing is cultural awareness considered as “either important or very important to a change initiative” by 90% of the participants ...
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
December02
2020
How Danish Culture Affects Change Management
Danes are odd. Objectively speaking – we are weird. Danish culture has the interesting characteristic of being at extreme ends of many measurable, cultural dimensions. And of course, this also impacts how we do change management. But in what way? At a conference hosted by Prosci this year, the Expert panel – consisting of change management specialist from around the globe – was asked questions on how different cultures impact our change management work. Great observations were aired out in this forum. And it was clear, that even though we do the same things – we adapt differently depending on the culture we operate in. Understanding our (cultural) profile diminishes our unconscious biases. We cannot NOT have biases. But when they become conscious, we can adapt specific tactics to put into different parts of our change management work. An example is the way we appeal to decision ...
Written by
Anna Balk-Møller -
December
02
2020
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
November23
2020
Seven tips for managing resistance in Covid-19.
Resistance is a natural reaction to change. It happens when people pause to understand and evaluate what this means for them. And there are always good reasons why people resist. Often it is due to poor leadership or poor change management. We can influence both. Resistance takes new forms in Covid-19 and can be more difficult to identify and manage. You need the same "tools"[1], but you must switch formats and double down on your efforts. A hybrid workplace and a new focus on safety call for adjustments to the way we deal with resistance. But as always, the more proactive and empathetic the approach, the easier it will be to avoid the further development of resistance. Three new resistance challenges Covid-19 is too big a change to handle. People resist for a good reason. And there is no shortage of reasons in an anxiety-inducing context ...
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
November
18
2020
Written by
Morten Kamp Andersen -
November10
2020
Use individual purpose to drive change in Covid-19.
Organisations are facing a tactical and logistical nightmare. All energies are focused on safely returning to the workplace, recovering or simply holding tight. “Is this really a time to talk about individual purpose?” you might ask. Yes, now is exactly the time to focus on individual purpose. Today’s biggest challenge is to maintain employee engagement in a disrupted and anxiety-ridden work environment, promoting well-being and building resilience. Not just to stay afloat. Not just to keep an edge. Individual purpose is the lever to manage change and emerge stronger. It is, therefore, more important than ever. 3 reasons why leveraging individual purpose should be part of the business playbook now Because people need to find something “in there for them”. Let’s go back to the basics. The WIIFM (What’s In It For Me question has been a staple in Change Management from the early days. People need ...
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Morten Kamp Andersen -
November
04
2020
Written by
Morten Kamp Andersen