Change, Resilience & Growth Mindset

Organisational change fails at a rate that should concern every leader who has ever sponsored a transformation program. Research consistently puts the failure rate of major change initiatives at somewhere between 60 and 70 per cent, not in terms of projects cancelled outright, but in terms of initiatives that do not achieve their stated objectives or sustain the changes they were designed to deliver. For decades, organisations have been investing in better project management,

Carol Dweck's research on mindset has produced one of the most widely referenced ideas in contemporary management thinking. The distinction between a fixed mindset; the belief that abilities and intelligence are largely innate and unchangeable and a growth mindset; the belief that they can be developed through effort, learning and the right environment – this has entered the vocabulary of most HR and L&D professionals and many organisational leaders. What has proven considera

In a VUCA world — Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous — resilience is not a personality trait that certain fortunate individuals happen to possess. It is a capability that organisations need to deliberately build in their leaders, their teams and the cultures that shape how people respond when circumstances become difficult.