Effective Organizational Change Requires Engagement and Empowerment September 26, 2018 by Jeff Hurt I’m still getting my head around what does and doesn’t work with organizational development and change. After eight and half years of consulting at Velvet Chainsaw, one would think I would have figured out this change management stuff. But I haven’t. I have more questions than answers. I have seeds of ideas in need of … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , change, change management, content and process, organizational change, organizational growth, process
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: From Industrial Revolution Work Models To Knowledge Economy Models May 11, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Is your organization stuck in a 20th Century time warp and on the endangered list? Are its structures, business models and operations using outdated methods resembling a relic of the past? Or are your organizational work processes thriving in today’s increasingly hypercompetitive, fast-paced and interconnected marketplace? In order to be a successful 21st Century organization, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , 20th century work model, 21st Century work model, association best practices, change, industrial revolution, intent to transformation, Knowledge economy, managing hands, managing minds
Seven Reasons Why Your Conference Attendees Don’t Want You To Change November 6, 2015 by Jeff Hurt It’s just not the conference is used to be! That’s a common complaint from long-term conference attendees. Often they resist changes or conference growth. Conference organizers have to carefully watch placating these long-term attendees versus attracting new ones. Sometimes, we have to let the legacy attendees complain or leave in order to make the appropriate … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , change, change management, conference best practices, conference growth, growing attendance
Release Your Conference Trojan Mice! October 8, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Forget releasing your conference Kraken—that legendary giant sea monster sent out to destroy anything that gets in your way. And by all means, don’t release your Trojan horse. You don’t need a trick, stratagem or gimmick for your target audience. You need to release your Trojan mice! These are small, well focused changes that add … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , cause and effect, change, change management, complex adaptive systems, organization structure, organizations as systems, systems thinking, Trojan horse, Trojan mice
Leading Others Through Organization Change Requires Effective Brain-Friendly Plans May 18, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Yes, when dealing with change, the details of the change are important. Equally important are the plans we develop to bring others along with the change. We often omit creating a plan that our team can own. We make a barbaric blunder and create a plan about the details of the change. We forget about … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Breaking Through The Guardians Of Change By Addressing The A In ACE May 15, 2015 by Jeff Hurt How can you unlock the grip of failure on your organization? “What?” you ask. “My organization is not operating at a loss or failing.” Oh, I beg to differ. If your organization strives to achieve status quo, a failure mentality has taken hold. Fear of failure and fear of change are probably your organization’s biggest … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Brain-Savvy Leaders Foster ACE May 14, 2015 by Jeff Hurt In order to grow, your organization must change. Organizations that refuse to move become stagnate. They become trapped, treading water through a set of regular routines while getting nowhere. Without lasting change, organizations become dull, sluggish and deteriorate. They eventually die, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately, the majority of organizational change fails, misses the mark … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Conference Education Sessions Must Override Attendees’ Need For Predictability October 14, 2014 by Jeff Hurt We are hard-wired to be like the Fraggles. But we are better off being like the the Doozers. Be A Doozer Not A Fraggle If you’ve ever watched the 80s tv show Fraggle Rock, you know the Fraggles and Doozers. The colorful, fur tuft tipped tail Fraggles only have a 30-minute work week. They dedicated … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , association best practices, brain-friendly conferences, change, change management, conference best practices, conferences, meeting, meeting planner, strategic planning
Four Objections To Changing Conference Education And Experiences October 9, 2014 by Jeff Hurt Change freaks many of us out! We fear it. We ignore it. We refuse to accept it. It’s really not change that freaks us out. It’s the unknown of the outcome. It’s so much easier to keep things the same because we know the results. Defining Change According to psychologist and therapist Roger S. Gil, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , association best practices, change, change management, conference best practices, conferences, meeting, meeting planner, strategic planning
Is Your Success Dependent Upon Proving You Are Smart Or Learning? October 1, 2014 by Jeff Hurt I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or successes and failures… I divide the world into learners and non-learners. ~ Sociologists Benjamin Barber. Your Drive To Learn All babies are eager to learn says Stanford professor, neuroscience researcher and author Dr. Carol Dweck. “You never see an unmotivated baby,” she says. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning principles, change, fixed mindset, growth mindset, learning, mindset
