Phil Buckley

Change with Confidence

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Produktbeschreibung

Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence in order to succeed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781118556559
• ISBN-10: 1118556550
• Artikelnr.: 36934460

Autorenporträt

PHIL BUCKLEY is a senior change management professional with over twenty years of experience developing and executing change strategies to achieve aggressive business goals across global businesses in Canada, the Americas, and the UK. He has managed twenty-seven large-scale change projects, most recently co-leading global change management for the $19.6 billion Kraft Foods acquisition of Cadbury with a team of forty change leads across sixty countries. His change assignments include mergers and acquisitions, demergers, organization restructurings, efficiency drives, culture initiatives, business model developments, strategy creation and deployments, downsizings, systems implementations, and organizational capability developments. Phil's practical experience working on change initiatives in twenty countries has taught him how to help people make lasting changes within their local environments and to give them the results they need. He is a frequent public speaker on change, including hundreds of corporate keynote presentations, business facilitations, and college teaching classes. His weekly blog is at changewithconfidence.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Part 1: Figuring It Out 1
The Plan 3
1. What do I bring to the project? 4
2. How do I identify what needs to change? 7
3. What have we done before, and did it work? 12
4. What other change projects are going on? 16
Communication 21
5. Who are the stakeholders who can influence success? 22
6. What is the water cooler talk about your proposed change? 26
Getting Results 31
7. What do I need to know before I commit to deliverables? 32
8. How do I measure success? 36
9. Will the change actually achieve the desired outcome? 40
10. How do I avoid scope creep? 43
Part 2: Planning for Change 49
The Plan 51
11. What does a good plan look like? 52
12. How do I get the budget to do it right? 56
13. What governance is required to run the project? 59
14. How do I prepare people to work in new ways? 65
15. How do I reduce risk? 70
Resources 75
16. How do I know what resources I need? 76
17. What makes a good project manager? 81
18. How do I get the best people to join the project team? 85
19. How do I know if a consultant can help me? 88
20. How do I set up the project team for success? 93
Communication 99
21. How do I get the leaders to personally commit to the project? 100
22. How can I help leaders prepare for their roles? 104
23. How do I describe the better future my project will bring? 108
24. How do I get people to care about my project? 112
25. How do I make my project the highest priority? 116
26. How do I communicate to the organization? 119
Part 3: Managing Change 125
The Plan 127
27. How do I manage my day job, change project, and life? 128
28. When is the organization ready for big change? 132
Resources 137
29. How should we celebrate wins? 138
30. How do I get more resources if I need them? 143
31. How do I avoid losing team members? 147
32. What do I do if someone is pulled from my team? 152
33. How do I keep the project team energized? 156
Communication 161
34. How do I manage my stakeholders? 162
35. How can I minimize change fatigue? 167
36. How do I overcome resistance? 172
37. How do I know communications are working? 177
38. How do I get a leader back on side? 181
39. How do I get a new business leader's support? 184
40. What do I do when I don't know what to do? 187
41. How do I communicate a delay in the project? 191
42. How do I demonstrate progress? 196
Part 4: Making Change Stick 201
The Plan 203
43. How do I prevent the return of old ways of working? 204
44. How do I hand over responsibilities to the business? 207
45. How do I record lessons learned? 211
46. How do I reenter the business? 215
Resources 219
47. How do I plan for post-launch support? 220
48. How do I reward the team? 225
Getting Results 229
49. How do I keep the change alive? 230
50. How do I show that the project was a success? 234
Afterword 239
Acknowledgments 241
Notes 243
Index 247

Rezensionen

"Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 BiggestQuestions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night by Phil Buckley isan excellent primer for those in change management ... Change withConfidence is practical, useful and absolutely crucial for thosetasked with change management in their organizations. It'seasy to read (Buckley eschews useless jargon and complex butimpractical theories), and organized in such a manner thatit's a breeze looking for the answer to your specificproblem. With this in hand, you shouldn't need to feel out ofdepth when you're assigned to the next changeproject."
--Daniel Goh, Young Upstarts Blog

"If you lead change, it will be needed."
--Harvey Schachter, The Globe and Mail

"Phil Buckley, in his new book Change With Confidenceprovides practical answer to fifty of the biggest questions thatkeep change leaders up at night... Here are ten of the keyquestions that apply equally well to the world of startups andentrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations. If entrepreneursanswer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stayahead of most of their competitors in the startup world. When wasthe last time you approached change with confidence, rather thanfighting it all the way?"
--Martin Zwilling, Forbes.com

Change with Confidence by Phil Buckley is a great handbook forworking through a big change project.Buckley's approach ispeople-centered and emphasizes the responsibility of change andorganizational leaders... This book can help any change projectfrom beginning to end and help you grow as a leader in the process."
--Michael McKinney, Leading Blog

"If you've ever asked yourself "how can I makea difference?" in leading change at your organization, addChange with Confidence to your reading list. While the book isgreat for finding answers to questions as the arise, in a perfectworld, project managers and change leaders would sit down and readcover to cover so they can adequately plan for every step along theway. Change management is just as much about advanced planning asit learning to adapt to new situations as they arise. By learningto change with confidence, the future of the social enterprisedoesn't look so stagnant."
--Marisa Peacock , CMS Wire

I highly recommend the essential and indispensable book Changewith Confidence: Answers to the 50Biggest Questions that KeepChange Leaders Up at Night by Phil Buckley, to any leaders at anylevel of an organization, who are currently involved in changemanagement or who anticipate a change project in the near future.This book will remove the questions and doubt, for change leadersand managers, and replace them with confidence andresolve."
--Wayne Hurlbert, Blog Business World