This section contains articles and tools on strategic planning and strategic management. Use this section when you want to provide direction for your team, do strategy, or help your team to implement a corporate strategy, a new set of values or any project. Use this section to choose the right OD intervention for your team.

This section is designed for team leaders, coaches, strategy facilitators and strategists.

 

 

 

The role of a strategic leader

• Characteristics of effective leaders. Strategic leadership. What are the characteristics and habits of effective leaders. What makes them strategic leaders?

Plan a team intervention.

• Organizational development interventions. What type do you need?What type of Organizational Development or change management intervention do you need? How do you choose the right OD intervention for your team?

Develop a strategic plan for your area

• The strategic planning process. When strategy fails. Most senior managers involved in strategic planning processes view strategic planning as a nothing more than a big pretence. Which it often is. Filled with great pretenders.

• Evaluate strategic planning How to evaluate your strategic planning retreat. It all depends on what your team has achieved by the end of the strategic retreat.

• Strategic development. How to get a team to develop a powerful strategic plan.

This section contains articles and tools on team innovation.

It is designed to help team leaders, managers, innovation champions, coaches and facilitators to help their teams to innovate, think outside the box, or learn in a creative way.

 

 

 

 

Get a team to generate innovative ideas

• Innovation in the workplace. Stimulate innovation in the workplace with a team innovation workshop. An easy way to energize your team, build team spirit, and inject some fun and creativity into your work place.

 

Storytelling in business

• An innovation method. Use questions as a tool for innovation and focus. Use questions as a method for innovation. Questions can be used to foster creative enquiry, change paradigms, solve problems and enhance wisdom.
• Storytelling in business. What is your intention? This article on storytelling in business considers how to match stories to the intention of the storyteller. Do you tell stories to persuade, sell, entertain or transform?

 

 

This section has articles around the theme of Team Leadership and change management. This includes leading teams in many different situations. It is designed for team leaders, a coaches, facilitators and change agents.

 

 

 

 

 

Lead your self

• Lead yourself first. Lead yourself before you lead others. How to use vision & values to lead yourself.

 

Lead your team

• Inspiration at work. Team. How to inspire and motivate your team at work. Five practical EQ & SQ tips for inspiring others.

 

Manage change.

• Managing change in the workplace. Write your own story. Managing change in the workplace is like writing a story. You, as author can choose whether you want to create a horror story or an inspirational tale of achievement.

• Why people resist change 10 reasons why people resist change

• Change champion What change champions do. A tribute to change champions and change agents who have changed our lives.

Organizational restructuring

• The role of a change agent during an organizational restructuring. The role that you as a change agent can play during an organizational restructure. An organisational restructure is like a hurricane, that knocks down everyone in its path.

Project management

• Effective project manager - emotional intelligence. How effective project managers use emotional intelligence to help keep their project teams motivated. By Susan Kziezopolksi