April K. Mills

Most productive

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets and time lines, and the freedom to solve their own problems.” – John Rollwagen On this Columbus Day holiday, my easily distracted mind thought, “Why not include a photo of bears with this quote?  If you replace people with bears […]

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New Approaches

When you want a step change in an outcome in your organization, you can’t look to tweak your status quo to get there. You must find a new approach and embrace it. Here are a few blog posts about new approaches. Instead of forcing everyone to take the same classes, try a “No More Mandatory

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Recapping Argyris

Yesterday I got into a great conversation about the work of Chris Argyris.  Today I thought I’d post the links to all my previous posts on his work.  Yes, this is the cheating way to blog.  Or, I could call it blog recycling and feel like I’m saving the planet. Either way, enjoy.  Argyris is

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Let your light shine

When times are tough, and you think others will never join you in your change, keep believing in yourself, in your ability to show through your actions that the change is possible, and in your light that you shine into the world. Tough times are dark times.  Be the light that others follow to get

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Kotter introduces Accelerate

I’m excited to share with you a recent video from John Kotter describing his Accelerate model and why it is desperately needed today. I’ve been privileged to lead a transformational change group leveraging this model for the past six years.  It works. It’s amazing.  I’m glad the world is finally getting a chance to see

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Wants to be there

A team where everyone wants to be there is so much more powerful than one where even one of the members has to be there. Find a way to field a team entirely of volunteers and you’ll have a nearly unstoppable force. Simplest way to field that team: Ask people if they’d like to join.

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Too Generic

In an attempt to keep change efforts relevant to large numbers of people, we keep the language generic and accessible.  The problem with this approach is that some changes call for specific language with specific meanings in order to make sense of what is really happening. You wouldn’t troubleshoot a complex electrical system by referring

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