http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:17:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last year or so at Taylor Clarke, we’ve been developing a new product offering: Resilience for Change.  Given the amount of change we get to see across hundreds of client organisations, we’ve wondered for a long time about how we can help build capacity for change within organisations.  ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=32 In Taylor Clarke’s Book Club, we read and discussed this engaging and practical book (by Patterson, K., Grenny, J., McMillan, R. & Switler, A.; McGraw-Hill; 2002) which encourages us to “discover how to communicate best when it matters most”. Think back to conversations you’ve had recently; how did they feel, what ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=30 With many organisations in the UK still suffering from hard economic times and redundancies continuing to affect people, it can be hard to devote time to thinking about and listening to, those employees who survive the cutbacks and downsizing. It can be tempting to assume that the employees who remain ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=28 Every so often in any organisation, whether in the public or private sector, the economy has a habit of delivering unexpected surprises, as with the current recession, which has been unpredictable in nature. For many organisations this is a swift reminder of the need to take stock and re-evaluate many aspects ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=27 In conceptualising change within organisations it can be tempting to think that people experience change in a similar way.  Theories of change are useful in giving us an overview of the stages which large groups of people could be expected to go through; however they can also mask the differences ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=25 Brainstorming has been with us since Alex Osborne coined the phrase in the 50’s.  So it really amazes me that we so rarely use it properly. Years ago when running an Advertising Agency, I came across the problem which I’m sure Alex Osborne had when he thought up brainstorming (he ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=24 I attended a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Conference on Resilience in May, which I’ve been persuaded by Laura to now write up.  Actually, having a nudge to reflect deliberately on a conference is just what I need …I love learning, and I love reflecting, when I have the time to ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=16 I recently attended a very useful seminar looking at the pitfalls and success drivers underpinning effective post acquisition integration, as part of our research for a new acquisition related change product we have been working on. Having personally led a couple of acquisition integrations during my own managerial career, I can ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=14 How do YOU make sense of the umpteen theories and models of organisational change that are on offer?   I’m not sure I’d have been able to put a theory or approach or model into a helpful framework or historical context before Birkbeck College introduced me to Chin and Benne.  (Not ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=12 A lot of Taylor Clarke’s work has been and remains leadership development. We often use an exercise which we first came across when working with a large public sector client on their major leadership programme a few years ago.  The exercise is called ‘Think of a Leader’ and it is, ... http://www.taylorclarke.co.uk/blog/?p=8