Forget Change Management. Focus on Change Leadership!

While change management is actively practiced in most organizations today, research shows that 70 to 75 percent of all change efforts still fail. Why? As the late management expert, Peter Drucker once wrote, "One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it."

Wendy works with leaders who want to get ahead of change. She partners with leaders who are looking for ways to address the confusion, fear, inertia, and resistance that threaten their organization's survival.

Whether she is consulting, coaching, creating communication campaigns, or delivering custom keynotes, her focus is on helping her clients mobilize and sustain energy for change.
 
 

 
 Listen to Wendy's Audio Introduction (1:13)
 
 
Your presentation on leading and communicating change was excellent. Your command of the subject matter, the captivating presentation, and your ability to be professional while having a dialogue with us was just the perfect match of instruction and engagement."
Joseph Jackson,
 Vice President of Inclusion, OSI Restaurant Partners

 
  1. Wendy’s article on Leading after Layoffs is featured in the Colorado Springs Business Journal.  Read it here.
  2. Change expert Rick Maurer interviews Wendy and Deanna about our new e-book Leading after Layoffs.  Listen here.
  3. Are you a Behavorial Health Professional?  You are invited to participate in a free teleseminar featuring Wendy and Lee Ann Slayton on the topic of Leading Through and After Layoffs.  Sign up here.
  4. Wendy is on Twitter!
  5. Check out Wendy’s new promo video.

 


I’m traveling this week so I thought I’d share some links to some of the best Q&A’s I’ve come across from other experts in the fields of leadership, change, and communication.  Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

Q.   I am having a difficult time leading my team. The team members will not follow my instructions, which I am sure would make our project much more successful. What am I doing wrong?

Click here to see what executive coach and best-selling author Marshall Goldsmith has to say.


Q.   Help! My boss is a bully.  What can I do?

Click here to see advice from executive coach Cheryl Dolan.

Q.  When I recently assumed my current job, I “inherited” an employee who has a long history of bad behavior such as being rude, stirring up trouble, and refusing to work with coworkers as a team player. How do I confront this person when the whole department has played into his behavior for years?

Click here to see what Ron McMillan, coauthor of Crucial Conversations and Influencer has to say.