Change Leadership
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Empathy and Gender Mental Health Gap
In our experience, leaders are still primarily selected based on their technical expertise. However, to attract diverse, interdisciplinary and equally skilled teams to change initiatives, social skills are more important. One of the most important skills for effective change leadership is empathy. And it is more than just being nice. It’s about deeply understanding the…
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How to make change work in large organizations
In large organizations, an average of 70 to 85 per cent of all change initiatives fail. According to our many years of experience, this is particularly due to a lack of social and emotional aspects like insufficient empathy and motivation skills of executives (in addition to other reasons why transformations fail). We recently had the…
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Psychological Safety in Change Initiatives
Highly functional and cohesive teams are crucial for economic success in our VUCA world. One of the most important elements in achieving this is psychological safety. This term was introduced by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson in the 1990s. She defined psychological safety as a state in which the work environment is safe from interpersonal risks.…
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5 Tips for Effective Change Communications
Around 70 to 85 per cent of all change initiatives fail – and it is often Internal Communications (IC) that is (partly) blamed for this. Of course, it is true that change projects also fail because of poor communication. But what are the main reasons for failure? And how can communicators help make a transformation…
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Internal Communications Check – 3 x 5 Questions
Internal communications (IC) is key to success of any transformation. Therefore, we at viadoo provide a IC change readiness check with 3 x 5 questions. It’s most likely that your change initiative or transformation will fail when most of the check lights are red. Check it out!