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Give a change stethoscope to your managers

March 11, 2016
Edmond Mellina
Capability building, Mini-tools, Nimble change management, On our minds, Published articles, Stories
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The critical role that direct managers play during change – both upstream and downstream – cannot be overemphasized. They represent the real keystone of organizational change. However, managers have no time, nor need, for the kind of tools favored by internal change consultants and project teams. What do they really need then? Three things: a very concise overview of your model; stethoscope-like tools; and better influence and “light-politics” skills.

Article first written for the People + Strategy blog of HRPS (USA); and subsequently featured on SmartBrief, a content aggregator which selects “only the most important industry developments from more than 10,000 major media outlets, regional newspapers, trade publications and blogs”. The Strategic Capability Network (Canada) also published the article on its blog.

A change-capable organization that moves with strategy

December 9, 2015
Edmond Mellina
Capability building, Nimble change management
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According to CEB, CHROs should rethink their role and place change capability building high on the agenda for 2016. In this blog post, the author highlights CEB’s reasoning; points to a new McKinsey article that addresses the design side of the challenge; and provides further guidance on creating an organization that moves with strategy.

Article first written for the blog of HR People & Strategy (USA). Also appeared on the blog of the Strategic Capability Network (Canada).

Leaders need to stop and reflect

April 10, 2015
Edmond Mellina
Capability building, Mini-tools, Nimble change management, On our minds, Published articles
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In professional sports, top athletes watch video-recordings of their own games or performances. But in the corporate world, leaders are always on the go – rarely taking the time to stop and reflect. They are wasting huge opportunities to learn.

Article first written for the blog of premier US-based association HR People & Strategy (executive arm of SHRM). Also appeared on the blog of the Strategy Capability Network.

When the business takes the lead & HR stops worrying about big data

January 15, 2015
Edmond Mellina
Capability building, Nimble change management, On our minds, Published articles, Stories
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Premier US-based association HRPS (executive arm of SHRM) invited Edmond Mellina to contribute to its brand new blog on HR, people and strategy. McKinsey’s latest Capability Building Survey results provided the starting point for the blog post…

This post also appeared on the blog of the Strategy Capability Network.

Stage 2 | BUILD UP: from barely moving to rapidly gaining altitude

September 30, 2014
Edmond Mellina
Capability building, Nimble change management
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With this post, we are continuing our blog series on change management capability building. We will discuss the second stage of our 4-stage model (see figure) – Stage 2 | BUILD UP – which is characterized by a structured and focussed effort throughout the organization. It represents a critical step toward threading change management into the corporate culture.