Change and Transition

The checklist can be used as an audit tool to ensure you are using a systematic, holistic approach to managing change.

The checklist can be used as an audit tool to see if you are utilizing best practices in your current and future communication plans.

The checklist can be used as an audit tool to see if you are utilizing best practices when getting senior leaders involved.

The checklist can be used as an audit tool to see if you are utilizing best practices when managing resistance.

At the Becker's Annual CEO Strategy Roundtable, held Nov. 14 in Chicago, William Cors, MD, chief medical officer of East Stroudsburg, Pa.-based Pocono Health System discussed how to address the shift in medical staff models.

What is the difference between Change and Transition?

DeAnne Aguirre discusses techniques that can help companies transform quickly and effectively.

With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started.

The large majority of organizations expect to achieve results by MANAGING change; more than 70% fall well short. The minority that learn how to LEAD their change equip themselves with the essential linchpin required for sustainable success.

What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.

Dr. Jeremy Theal and Sandy Saggar of North York General Hospital (NYGH) discuss how NYGH became a trailblazer in the e-health space and profiled the role of strong change management leadership in achieving a Stage 6 designation from the

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) provides useful articles for research and insight on leadership.

This resource aims to illustrate the practical application of selected change management theories and tools.

This research report is a publication of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Funded through an agreement with the Government of Canada, CHSRF is an independent, not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to accelerating healthcare improvement and transformation for Canadians.

Nothing is more critical to managing an efficient emergency department than getting physicians on board for new innovations and operational change. A particularly hot topic these days among ED directors and health care executives is how to lead physicians through change. Even the most change-averse physician groups are finding it difficult to stay the same.

This review aims to provide a resource and reference tool to help readers find their way around the literature on change management and consider the evidence available about different approaches to change.

Attitudes of health personnel, leadership and change, and organizational restructuring. 

Why do some changes fail while others succeed? How can you make sense of the many tools and approaches for managing change? How can you lead change successfully, both in your personal life and professional career? After more than 14 years of research with corporate change, the ADKAR model has emerged as a holistic approach that brings together the collection of change management work into a simple, results oriented model.

This collection of practical, hard-hitting articles draws on Margaret Wheatley's work around the world and applies the revolutionary ideas in her books Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and Turning to One Another. The articles support the practices of people and leaders in many different types of organizations, communities and cultures, with topics ranging from leadership to parenting to specific organizational techniques.

This volume aims to help the reader gain a full understanding of the positive and negative effects of continuous organizational change, and also provides concrete ways to deal with change and turn it into advantage.

The authors have made 50 years of social science research accessible to the general reader, and go one step further by codifying exactly what is required to be an influencer in every situation.

John Kotter's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

This delightfully told fable illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Simple explanatory material following the fable enhances the lasting value of these lessons.

In this exciting new book, Kotter explains: How to go beyond "the business case" for change to overcome the fear and anger that can suppress urgency; Ways to ensure that your actions and behaviors - not just your words - communicate the need for change; How to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your transformation effort has scored some early successes.

Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Chip and Dan Heath talk about how difficult change is in our companies, our careers, and our lives, why change is so hard, and how we can overcome our resistance and make change happen.