Category: Change Management

By Rachel Sams  Across NRMC’s client portfolio, employees tell us they’re overwhelmed by time-sensitive requests from all parts of their organizations, on many different platforms. This sense of overwhelm holds true for people who work at three-person nonprofits and those with thousands of employees. A daily barrage of communications combined with a change management effort … Continued

By Rachel Sams  Many organizational change efforts will fail—up to 70 percent of them, depending on which experts you ask.  What makes the difference? What factors make a change take hold, and what can make a change fall flat?  I’ve led my share of organizational change efforts that succeeded, as well as changes that flopped. … Continued

By Rachel Sams  Years ago, when I was a reporter for a business journal, the editing team met behind closed doors each week to select stories for Page 1.   Then our editor decided to make a change.   She told us the team would gather for a weekly Page 1 meeting. Each reporter would pitch one … Continued