Author Description

Coming soon in mid-2014Business author Ric Willmot provides the inside advice you need to implement successful change into your organisation. Change 601 dispels the myth that people are reluctant to change. The truth is, they change every day because of a traffic jam, a new customer request, a computer malfunction or personal crisis. People are resilient and adept at change.Change 601 explores what people do tend to resist, and that is ambiguity. One of the most elemental aspects of successful change is to remove ambiguity effectively and Ric Willmot provides pragmatic advice on how to do just that.This book is not written in typical fashion. It's not intended to be read like a novel and so it has not been written like a novel. The intent is to communicate - and in communication it is not true that the more you say the better your message is heard. Mathematicians, poets, and sporting coaches to name but a few realise that valued and worthwhile communication can be delivered through more than words and convey important meaning.The book includes many charts, tables, graphs, bullet lists, checklists, snippets, and commentary. You'll be able to open this book to any page and find useful, useable information without needing to read the entire chapter, let alone the entire book. It's a reference book to be used like a ready reckoner. It's a note book and as such, jot down inside these pages your ideas, thoughts, prompters, etc.Effective change management skills drive all successful organisations. In this book you will learn about the skills that enable you to define the key concepts associated with change that will improve your outcomes and results successfully, time and again.Topics include:* Breathing Life into Your Organisation* Letting it Happen or Making it Happen* Kurt Lewin's Change Management Model* Gleicher's Formula for Change* ADKAR Model for Change* Why is Change Still So Hard? * Force Field Analysis Extended* Motivating for Change* Life and death in organisat