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Ask Dr. Change

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson

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Ask Dr. Change is a thought-provoking and insightful podcast designed to provide you with proven invaluable guidance on transformational change within organizations, communities and large systems. We tackle the tough questions and challenges faced by millions of leaders and consultants worldwide striving to make critical transformational changes. Your host, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson, international speaker and bestselling author, draws from her 45 years of proven experience facilitating tra ...
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In Part II of Linda’s overview of organizational energy dynamics, she builds on doing an Energy Scan to identify and assess current energy dynamics in the organization undergoing change and explores strategies to mitigate or strengthen each of the five elements of energy on behalf of realigning them to produce your desired outcomes from change. She…
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Linda shares this powerful, non-traditional approach to assessing the ability of an organization to achieve results from change---through understanding and influencing the organization’s energy dynamics. Linda describes organizational energy as the fuel to make change happen and outlines five elements of energy dynamics that exist in every organiza…
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In this episode of the Change Management Review Podcast, host Theresa Moulton sits down with Maria Darby, CEO of Conner Partners, to dive deep into two of the most pressing challenges in today’s organizational change landscape. With over 35 years of experience in the consulting industry, Maria shares expert strategies on how leaders can…
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Jake Jacobs has been around the change block many times over. One of his greatest contributions in the field of Large-Scale Change Interventions is Real-Time Strategic Change. Jake shares with Linda hs history, current work focus, and advice on the next edge of the Change field for both leaders and consultants. Come meet the man and hear his insigh…
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In this episode of the Change Management Review Podcast, host Theresa Moulton sits down with Maria Darby, CEO of Conner Partners, to explore the critical elements that drive successful change execution. With over 35 years of experience in the consulting industry, Maria shares her deep expertise in leading complex change initiatives and the proven…
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Most Change Management practitioners rightly focus a lot of energy and attention on managing their stakeholders to overcome resistance and adopt the future state. While helpful, this does not guarantee generating the amount of momentum required for a project to achieve its desired outcomes. This episode introduces how to create a critical mass of e…
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How to ensure your transformational changes succeed? In this episode, Dr. Dean Anderson and Linda (Dr. Change), founders of this work, describe Being First’s Leading Transformational Change online program that features ten best practice strategies essential for succeeding at transformational change. They describe the essence of each strategy and th…
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This episode presents guidance for dealing with both leader and stakeholder resistance to change. It’s essential to understand the human dynamics underlying resistance, how it shows up, and how to support the process of people becoming committed and aligned to change. It explores how we as leaders and consultants need to show up and be skilled at s…
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Most organizations with long and successful histories are tough to change. Yet change they must. How can leaders get the attention of their managers and stakeholders that a major change is needed, coming and serious? This episode describes the strategy of Bold Actions that do just this! Leaders must consciously alert their organizations to make nec…
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While every major change effort has a defined scope, most are incomplete and often need to be expanded to achieve desired outcomes. This episode highlights the areas required to define a full scope, one that ensures better outcomes and influences the initial definition of project budget and timeline. Scope needs to focus on the content of the chang…
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Theresa Moulton is one of the Change Management superstars supporting the field and pushing its edges after 25 years of experience and relentless entrepreneurial spirit. She shares her journey to this esteemed position of both delivering change and coaching services to clients and leading one of the most highly regarded online resources for organiz…
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In this episode, Jason Little shares six big ideas that can help organizations move away from traditional frameworks and towards more effective, sensemaking approaches. Tune in to learn how to enhance your change management strategies and foster a more adaptable and resilient organization.By Theresa Moulton
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Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate, interviews Linda about her views on leaders and consultants taking on the Conscious Change Leadership approach to the transformations they require or serve. Linda openly discusses this as the cutting edge and necessity for the field of change leadership. To watch the full video version of this…
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In this episode, Linda interviews Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate. Andrew has traveled the entire development road with Being First to become a Conscious Change Leader. He exemplifies the candor, authenticity, knowledge and foresight so essential to meet today’s challenges. Come hear this man’s perspectives on his journey and…
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What is change adoption and why is it so difficult to achieve and sustain? In this episode, Dr. Change reveals the work required to obtain adoption by exploring how to support stakeholders to fully integrate a project’s new state into their daily ways of operating and then master it for optimal and sustained results. As a major focus of Change Mana…
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With major change so widespread in organi­zations, the need for internal and external consulting support has grown exponentially—as have the number and kinds of change consultants to service it. We change consultants come in many shapes and sizes. Which are you… and are you playing the best and highest value role you can? This episode describes a r…
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Most organizations today are fraught with so much change that it’s hard for leaders to stay on top of everything they are asking of the organization. In this episode, Linda describes the need for and elements of the Enterprise Change Agenda, a proven mechanism to organize and coordinate an organization’s priority initiatives so they can realistical…
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Most organizational change efforts rely on the tried-and-true approaches of Project Management and Change Management. However, when a project is transformational, it requires an expanded approach, beyond these two. Transformational change has a unique set of requirements that need attention before—and after—these standard approaches come in to play…
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The role of the Change Process Leader is a breakthrough strategy for successfully leading transformational change. Beyond Project Management and Change Management, this role oversees how a transformation is stood up, led, and adjusted to achieve sustained results. Kate MacDonald, Executive Director of Professionalism, Leadership & Inclusion at York…
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Our most complex and transformational change projects face many predictable hurdles. Current project leader roles and processes do not prevent or mitigate these struggles. A new leadership role is needed and possible! It requires a paradigm shift in understanding transformational change and how best to lead it. Introducing the Change Process Leader…
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Leaders and their consultants often take for granted that they know how to lead all their major change projects. However, transformational changes have different requirements of both leaders and consultants to be led successfully to achieve sustained results. This episode reviews many of the predictable and costly challenges transformational projec…
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Guest Interview – Dr. Beverly Kaye, Founder of Bev Kaye & Co. Dr. Beverly Kaye is an internationally recognized expert in the field of career development, employee engagement, and retention. In this episode, I talk personally with Bev about her lifelong path in this work, her insights for leaders and Talent Management practitioners, and about the n…
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As a Change Consultant, when should I consider not accepting a project because of clear adverse leadership, buy-in or cultural issues? There is nothing worse than being tied up in a change project that has no chance of succeeding. The causes of this are many. It may be poor sponsorship, no clear outcome, unrealistic timetable and budget, unclear de…
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Happy Holidays! As the final episode for our inaugural year of Ask Dr. Change, Linda shares two of her most personal passions: Art and Food! In this episode, Linda describes some of her artwork and its inspiration. As a foodie, she also shares several of her favorite recipes for you to try and enjoy. It’s the holiday! Time to enjoy and relax! Come …
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Join us for an engaging episode featuring Rich Batchelor, President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). With over 30 years of global change management experience, Rich offers valuable insights into the future of change leadership and consulting. Discover Rich's unique journey into the world of change management, starting w…
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Leaders have a critical choice to make when initiating change. How they frame and communicate the change impacts how it’s received and embraced by the organization. Understanding the motivation behind change - whether it's a wake-up call, a threat, a vision of something different, or an inspiration - is paramount. Our episode begins with a thought-…
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Most leaders are rightfully focused on getting the best content solution designed and implemented to satisfy a need in the organization. However, this focus requires additional attention on how the stakeholders will be impacted and engaged, and how the change process is designed to ensure the best solution is generated, implemented, adopted and sus…
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Every change effort requires a reliable plan to make happen. However, some types of change are well led with pre-determined plans and others, like transformational efforts, are not. Why? So much is emergent in transformation that change leaders and the team need to be supported to figure things out as the project proceeds. Changes in direction or p…
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Today’s topic surfaces several important issues about how we as consultants and coaches can best support the people tasked with making change. It is critical to consciously shape our role and style so that we meet the needs of our clients in the best way possible. Too often, consultants and coaches have been trained in a specific approach that beco…
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Embark on a transformative journey with the distinguished change expert Daryl Conner as we delve into the multifaceted realm of change management and transformational leadership. With an impressive career spanning over five decades, Daryl’s profound influence has shaped how organizations navigate transformational change. In this enlightening episod…
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Do your too-busy leaders miss seeing important information that they know they need to make? Many leaders miss, ignore or side-step information that serves as a wake-up call… and instead press the snooze button until things get painful. In today's episode, I answer the question: "What triggered the major changes you are leading, and how do we get l…
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Welcome to this episode, where I’ll introduce you to the most comprehensive guidance system for all magnitudes and types of change -- The Change Leader's Roadmap (CLR) Methodology. This thinking discipline provides strategic and operational step-by-step actions for your project from start to sustainable results. I’ll walk you through the CLR’s nine…
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