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Three Easy Ways to Share Knowledge

We commit to provide you FREE online Change Articles and Tools of real value, and to make it easy to share them with your colleagues and clients. Below is a list of ALL of our free articles and tools (the articles are presented first, followed by the change tools), including the title and description for each. Next to each article and tool you will find three buttons that will make reprinting or emailing to your colleagues easier:

• Use the button to view and download the PDF version of each article and tool. The PDF version is optimized for printing. It's also easy to attach the PDF file to an email message to share it with a colleague.



• Use the button to email the title, description and link for an article or tool to as many as five colleagues at a time. You can even include a personalized note.
This is especially helpful to those recipients who are reluctant to open a PDF attachment from any email message.


• Use the button to view and copy HTML code to be pasted into the pages of your website.
Once the code is pasted into your website (or e-Newsletter, or email, etc.) your site will have a link to a free article or tool. This is a great way to add value to your website and give your website's visitors a reason to return.

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Articles - Change Capability PDF Email HTML Awake at the Wheel: Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Change Leadership http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/12001/ Description: Discover what you need to become a successful change leader, and why change management is insufficient to support transformational change. .................................................................................................................................. Ensuring Stability During Change http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200611/ Description: During the complexity of change, one of the smartest things you can do as a leader is to consciously create the experience of stability. This article presents six strategies for ensuring stability while your organization changes. .................................................................................................................................. Ensuring Your Organization's Capacity to Change http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200601/ Description: Do you have the capacity in your organization to succeed at change AND current operations? Or, will one succeed at the expense of the other? This article examines the issue of managing capacity across change and operations, and recommends how leaders can deal with it to increase their success at both. .................................................................................................................................. How To Build Your In-House Change Resources To Maximize Your ROI From Change http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200310/ Description: Continually relying on external change expertise is not a sound long-term strategy. Developing your organization's internal change capability is key to your sustained success. This article describes why, and outlines the nine key components that will get you on your way. .................................................................................................................................. How to Implement a Common Change Methodology to Increase Your Organization's Change Results and Skill http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200208/ Description: In this article, we outline a seven-step process that will enable your organization to actually implement a common approach to change and maximize your return on this key investment. .................................................................................................................................. How to Simultaneously Build Your Organization's Capacity for On-going Change WHILE You Succeed in Your Current Change http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200203/ Description: Learn seven key practices for building your organization's change capability that you can immediately implement without burdening your organization with yet another improvement program. .................................................................................................................................. Letting Go of the Past: A Proactive Strategy to Lower Resistance and Accelerate Change http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200511/ Description: Discover how to support your people to emotionally let go of their past practices in order to take on and accelerate the success of your new directions. .................................................................................................................................. Strategies and Tactics for Executive Change Sponsors http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200509/ Description: Change sponsorship is a hot topic these days, and for good reason. Our nearly thirty years of research shows that few change efforts succeed if they have inadequate executive level sponsorship. We find that most senior executives do not understand what is required of them as a sponsor of change, especially transformational change. Some lack the skills or desire; others simply do not put in the time required on the right sponsorship tasks. Some executives get too involved in the details of change; others are nowhere to be found. Most put their operational duties ahead of their change sponsorship duties, and wonder why their change efforts flounder. And the vast majority of change sponsors simply think their sponsorship job is done once the change effort is adequately kicked-off. Do you fit any of these scenarios? Do you have what it takes to succeed as a change sponsor? This article reveals the eight key skills and responsibilities that you need to develop, and clarifies your role and interface with your executive peers. The change leaders and practitioners your work with will also find this article invaluable. .................................................................................................................................. Ten Questions that Catalyze Great Change Leadership, Part One http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200301/ Description: A good change consultant's primary job is to catalyze insight and clear thinking in their clients so they are able to lead their organization's change efforts with greater skill and competency. Sometimes the catalyst for such insight is another executive who knows to ask the questions that promote the right type of thinking and actions to support change. .................................................................................................................................. Ten Questions that Catalyze Great Change Leadership, Part Two http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200303/ Description: This article contains the second set of questions used to catalyze insight and clear thinking in your clients so they are able to lead their organization's change efforts with greater skill and competency. .................................................................................................................................. The Change Leader's Roadmap: How To Navigate The Complexities Of Your Organization's Transformation http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200405/ Description: Transformation is complex and dynamic. Knowing what to do -- and when and how to do it -- is a major challenge. In this overview, you will discover how to use the nine-phase Change Leader's Roadmap to plan, design and implement your major change efforts successfully. .................................................................................................................................. Upgrade Your OD and Project Management Staff to Change Strategy Consultants http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200507/ Description: Internal OD, Project Management and Change Management staffs are useful but inadequate support to the high level needs of transformational change. Read how to upgrade them all into Change Strategy Consultants, and reposition them to support the success of major changes from the beginning. .................................................................................................................................. Which Will Be Most Successful for Your Current Change Effort - A Change Process Approach or a Change Tool Approach? http://www.beingfirst.com/changeresources/articles/200202/ Description: Both the change process and the change tool approach have their benefits and limitations. Learn the differences between the two, which generates greater success, and how to make your decision about which approach you should take. ..................................................................................................................................