Our latest thinking on the art and science of Transformation and Change Management.
Beyond the Basics: Next Level Questions to Equip Your Team for Transformative Change
Help your team transition from merely understanding a change to actively partnering in it by using Next Level Questions. These questions demonstrate empathy, provide clarity, and enhance engagement, addressing potential anxieties and fostering better adoption of desired outcomes.
Are You Making an Impact, One Story at a Time?
We all know stories are powerful, but how do you harness that power effectively? At Switch, we believe storytelling is more than just crafting a narrative—it's about driving real change.
Through our 3-phase approach—Understand, Plan, Launch—we guide our clients in using storytelling to make transitions smoother and more impactful.
Is an Org Design Effort Right for You... and is Your Organization Ready?
Organization design is not for the faint of heart. It’s challenging work that impacts people on a personal level. It’s also valuable work that can be the catalyst to position your organization to thrive in the future. How can you know if an organization design effort is the right approach now? And if it is, what questions do you need to consider to ensure you are ready to successfully navigate the organization design process?
Strategies for Conducting Engaging High-Impact Virtual Meetings
Are you finding your facilitation of virtual sessions are not as engaging as you would like? Read these best practices for elevating your virtual meetings to create exceptional value.
Five Common ERP Implementation Watchouts and How to Address Them
A successful ERP implementation goes beyond turning on new technology. It also involves new ways of working and new behaviors for employees in an organization.
What is Your Team’s Unique Edge? Six Benefits of Designing an Operating Model for Your Function
What is the critical value your function offers that no one else does? A well-designed operating model not only serves as the critical bridge between strategy and execution, it tells your story and can improve your team’s performance, decision-making, scalability, risk management, innovative culture, and sustainability. It will also help you advocate for the resources your team needs to execute on your strategy.
Unlocking Value: Five Essential Strategies for Private Equity M&A Success
In the world of Private Equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), unlocking value is key to success. In this article, we'll explore five essential strategies with actionable insights that can help you and your team navigate complexities, mitigate risks, and drive growth.
Empowering Leadership: Guiding Leaders Through Effective Organization Design
The organization design process is an opportunity to position your teams and align your leadership around structures that will enable you to pursue short and long-term goals more efficiently and effectively. Switch partners with leaders to guide organizations through this highly sensitive and complex work.
Five Tips for Leveraging Disruption to Accelerate Transformation
Tips for how to leverage a disruptive event to accelerate transformation.
Small Changes, Giant Leaps: How Micro Changes Lead to Major Shifts
Many people begin a new year with long-term personal goals but find that they lose momentum over time. It’s not that they didn’t want to change. It’s just that long-term change can seem daunting. It’s the same for large or multi-year organizational change. That’s why we recommend planning, and making, shorter-term “micro-changes” along the way to build and maintain momentum. These five strategies can help.
The Human Side of Digital Transformation: Leadership’s Role in Driving Adoption
Leading a successful transformation is hard, leading a successful digital transformation is harder.
Four Strategies to Help Executives Communicate Through Change
Whether it's a system implementation, restructuring, or a shift in company culture, effective communication from executives during organizational change is critical to success. These four tips can help you communicate effectively with your teams through organizational transformations.
Beyond the Basics: Elevating Your Change Management Approach to Achieve Results
Tips to evaluate and improve upon your change efforts in 2024.
Three Steps to Building Change Capability for Organizational Success
The ability of an organization to successfully manage change is the key to shifting from a culture that struggles to achieve goals to one that builds momentum while moving from milestone to milestone.