article thumbnail

Using Persuasion to Spur Lasting Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

But when leaders need to prompt long-term behavioral change, these tactics need to be applied differently. There are well-known tactics for persuading others, coauthor Robert Cialdini’s prominent among them.

article thumbnail

Why trust matters during organizational change

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points — Trust and Organizational Change Trust reflects how willing a person is to give up some control or accept vulnerability related to another person or group. Leading change in an organization can sometimes feel like being on one side of a vast chasm, with everyone else on the other side.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Creating a Supportive Environment for Organizational Change

Michael McKinney

Remaining honest and forthcoming with information pertaining to organizational change helps to mitigate fears and anxieties. Her book, The Mindshift Effect: Where Change Management Is Redefined and Leadership Is Defined provides inspiration for leading meaningful organizational change.

article thumbnail

Retaining the Best of Your Culture Amid Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors. While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady.

article thumbnail

Goal setting as a tool for organizational  change: a case study

Agile42

This article explores how Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and goal setting can change the collaboration style within an organization, based on agile42’s experiences with. Continue reading Goal setting as a tool for organizational change: a case study at agile42.

article thumbnail

Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition

Harvard Business Review

To shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from.

article thumbnail

10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. They argue that most big organizational problems deserve a more urgent response — a metabolic rate that honors the frustration, mediocrity, and pain of the status quo.