Influence Change at Work

This month's guest, Marnie Green, is Principal Consultant at Management Education Group and author of both Painless Performance Evaluations and Painless Performance Conversations. Listen in as she shares examples of organizations who have seen shifts in culture as a result of a new performance management process and supporting technology.

This month's guest, leadership consultant and executive coach Aaronde Creighton, shares why and how to be your true self at work when you're leading change.

Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance, returns to the show to discuss how to gain support for change, especially how to move people from being grumblers to becoming allies using a tool called The Energy Bar™.

There are a lot of change management experts and approaches to choose from. How can you tell the good ones from the bad ones? Beth Banks Cohn, President and Founder of ADRA Change Architects, joins the show to warn us of the red flags to watch out for, and share the hallmarks of good change management practice. Listen in to become a better consumer (and provider!) of change management methodologies and services.

Guest: Paige Lillard CEO and Principal of Beacon Consulting PBL and Former Lead Judge, Malcolm Baldrige Award for Performance Excellence

There’s nothing more frustrating than to be given a goal by senior leadership only to realize that had they consulted your team, they may have developed a much more meaningful goal or altered the strategy completely to optimize the outcome. How do internal teams that provide services to the lines of business (HR, Technology, Legal, Operations etc.) earn respect as a strategic partner and get invited to join planning conversations with executives much earlier in the process? Paige Lillard provides straightforward answers and the key to get your voice heard in strategy meetings.

This month's guest, Dee Daley, is a business leader with a 20-plus year record of leading organizational change initiatives for corporations including GE Healthcare, GE Capital and Office Depot. She recently presented on the topic of How to Deal With Difficult People at the Change Management 2015 Global Conference.

As change management professionals our success often depends upon our ability to influence without authority and to influence “difficult” people. Surprisingly, the research shows that 75 percent of the people with whom we interact at work and play are different from us in many ways such as how they make decisions, how they react when stressed and how they prefer to manage a project. It is these differences that frequently cause tension and strife. Listen in to hear what you can do about it!

Caroline Kealey, Owner and Principal at Ingenium Communications, joins the show this month to share the Results Map, her tool for developing communications. Listen in to hear the key elements of the Results Map and how to use it to communicate change.

Andy Fleming, CEO & Founding Principal at Way to Grow, Inc. joins the show this month to tell us about Deliberately Developmental Organizations. We'll learn what they are, and why you'd want your organization to be one, and how to go about implementing it in your organization.

As the lines between our work and the rest of our lives blur, it seems more difficult to navigate and differentiate between the two. According to this month's guest, Dr. Jane Goldner, the key, however, is not work-life balance, it's role integration. Tune in to hear how to know if you or others have poor "work-life balance" and what the impact on the organization is, how to go about implementing role integration concepts at work, and how role integration can help alleviate change overload.

This month, my guest is Patti Johnson, CEO of PeopleResults and author of Make Waves:  Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life.  She shares how to be a difference-maker who implements lasting change at work.