Managing Change

Change is inevitable whether yourorganization is thriving or struggling, and the pace at which you must respond to change is accelerating.

During the merger of two multi-billion dollar companies, leaders recognized future success hinged on melding two very different organizational cultures.

Global restaurant chain with 1000+ locations and 50,000 employees created a program to reinforce the organization's diverse, inclusive and equitable culture

If you want to achieve the change your organizational is after, you've got to help your people through it.That starts with change leaders.

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When two multi-billion dollar companies merged, they realized they needed to meld two significantly different company cultures to ensure future success.

Watch our on demand, virtual conference on transforming your thinking on activating your strategy through your people and engaging your people virtually.

At Root, we believe in challenging you to become a disruptor, and then empowering you and your people to get engaged in that journey. It's time - will you disrupt or stay stagnant and watch someone disrupt you. What do you choose?

The world isn’t going to stop changing so what is your retail or hospitality business doing to pivot and adjust strategy to meet customers where they are?

During change people want and need three things: clarity, connection, and conversation and messaging needs to address each of these elements.

You can significantly improve results when you understand what drives people’s decision to change and design your strategy launch with that end in mind.

Organizations need to implement changes to navigate tremendous challenges. Communicating effectively has never been more critical than it is right now.

If your people don’t trust your leadership, then navigating a crisis and delivering future success become nearly impossible.

Jim Haudan speaks with Dr. Rick Lofgren, president and CEO of UC Health, and Charlie Piscitello, chief people officer at Acutus Medical, Inc. to get their thoughts as how leaders can best lead during challenging times.

On the third episode of the series, Gary Gray and John Baldoni share thoughts on meaningful ways on how to lead people through crisis.

During large-scale change, being nimble is key. You must be know your Why, but be prepared to adjust your what and how as new challenges arise. Let your purpose, your why, guide you and your people to achieve long-term success in the end.

Engagement surveys have a place and time.This is not it. But it's still critical to know what people are thinking,to guide organizational shifts.

While we certainly value in-person gatherings, you can’t afford to put events on hold even if you can’t be together. Your business and strategy can’t wait.

The only way to catalyze and accelerate results is through your people. You need to move fast right now. But you can’t skip steps.

Insights on how to think about challenges at the intersection of strategy and operations.Specifically, how to make the complicated a little more simple.

Be agile, flexible, and ready to change course at a moment’s notice. Don’t wait around for someone else to save you. Control your own destiny!

Change means doing something different. Something risky. Something uncomfortable. This 9-Step “How to Change” guide get you a headed in the right direction.

Tune into the second episode of the series featuring Dr. Rick Lofgren and Charlie Piscitello, as they share their experiences navigating crisis.

Understanding your current state, capabilities, and future impact can help you come down the mountain at a pace that keeps you in control.

Recently, Root Inc. co-founder Jim Haudan met via video conference with Jim Boomgard, president and chief executive officer of DAI: International Development, and Joe Morgan, seasoned CEO, advisor and strategist, to get their insights on leadership during the Covid-19 crisis.

We can only be nimble when we have the right culture and agree on the behaviors that make it work. There are four primary behaviors that drive agility.

Watch the first episode of the series featuring two seasoned CEOs, sharing their experiences navigating crisis at both large and small organizations.

Changing our behaviors to flatten the curve is a major societal change, but we go through the same phases when faced with change in our work. When your team is facing change – big or small – there are four elements to creating lasting change to consider and plan for.

As a leader, how do you clearly and concisely convey rapid business shifts to your people during times of uncertainty? How do you break through the noise?

Our natural reaction to change – the instinct to panic – hasn’t changed since the time of Heraclitus. It’s the way our brains are wired: change is a threat

There has been a lot of great content put out about how to lead and engage your people and your organization in times like these. However, I haven’t come across much that is targeted at the individual. Yes, leaders need guidance, but as an individual I want advice on how best to navigate these difficult waters too.

Watch our on-demand webinar to gather insights and best practices to become a culture champion and creating a remote culture movement in your company.

Watch our on-demand webinar to discover techniques to prepare your managers to engage a remote team confidently and effectively during uncertain times.

Thriving through change, rather than just surviving, requires (virtually) capturing t¬he voice of your employees and customers. These insights are valuable for your strategic decisions, and their engagement is critical to coming out of the present situation stronger than ever.

Watch our on-demand webinar to gather tips on how a healthcare organization with over 50,000 employees utilized digital tools to strategically engage their distributed workforce.

Watch our on-demand webinar on tips and techniques of ways to create virtual engagement during times of uncertainty through real-life examples.

Leaders need to be thinking about how Coronavirus will impact all facets of their business. Regardless of the fear circulating, we needed to remain productive and leaders must develop plans that address the risks while striving to stick to normal operations as much as possible.

Today I'm discussing change & consistent CX. Today you need to either keep pace with change or risk failure. And when it coems to CX, organizations need to be consistent because the experiences created for customers are the pathway to success or failure.

While welcoming adversity might feel counterintuitive and against how most human brains are wired, the benefits are huge. So the next time you’re facing what you would normally consider an undesirable and unexpected problem, try hugging that thunderstorm of adversity. Odds are, you’re about to see your personal growth skyrocket.

Change is only as effective as its sustainment effort. You need people thinking about it, talking about it, doing something with it for change to stick.

Yes, bots are taking over the tactical, but they won’t replace the humans – they’re here to help humans focus on the bigger and more strategic issues of CX.

Watch our on-demand webinar for insights on preparing your health care organization for your 2020 strategy.

Each day, I work alongside a team of people who are equally passionate about proving that change is possible.

Not long ago, several of us at Root got a chance to work with a Division I college football team to help reestablish a high-performance culture and team.

My role, leading our CX team, gave me insight into how easy it is to initiate organizational change and how hard it is to sustain real change.

I had chosen to view this challenge as a threat rather than an opportunity. Of course I hadn’t seen progress; I had been operating with a “fixed mindset.”

Organizations struggle to successfully change, activate strategies, deliver greater customer experiences and unlock talent because of the same disconnects.

Creating change mindsets during financial downturns requires doubling down on engaging your people in your strategic priorities to maintain focus.

What kind of a decision-maker are you? Whether individual contributors, managers, or executive leaders, the decision-making process is very important.

Organizational change is unavoidable. Here are four tips to keep operations running smoothly amid change.

Watch our on-demand webinar to find out the key to being an agile, change-ready, organization and the tried and true accelerators to make change stick.

Change requires commitment, focus and a process that gives every single person in the company a connection to the strategy.

In this on-demand webinar, we profile our Root Compass® manager development experience and share the four things high-performing managers have in common.

Despite the well-documented power of storytelling, most leaders are just awful at telling stories. Learn seven ways to become a stellar storyteller now.

Watch our on-demand webinar to examine the organizational challenges facing businesses today, and learn a proven change process to accelerate change.

The fate of your strategy hinges on everyone in your organization getting their heads, hearts, and minds around a new way – the needed culture change.

Want that next strategic initiative to be a success? It all comes down to focus. That means setting your priorities. Not an easy task.

Vampires Inc., a global conglomerate, knew they needed to change their business model if they were going to continue to be relevant in their marketplace.

Get a solid view and understanding of your employees’ experiences, attitudes and behaviors and you’ll have the tools you need to create lasting change.

Steve Ramseur serves up the secret sauce on how JLL is building a culture of love that is creating a significant marketplace differentiation.

Find out how companies deliberately build a culture of disruption that keeps them on the cutting-edge decade after decade in this on demand webinar.

Root is obsessed with culture, disrupting the norm, and has a proven processes to not only create change, but change that sticks.

No one remembers a memo, so why do we think they will create organizational change? Start making change stick them with visualization, data, and dialogue.

Successful change from the top down means starting with the leaders. Jim Haudan gives leaders three areas to improve to deploy a successful strategy.

It can be tough to create an awesome strategy, send it out into the organization, and then see it go nowhere. Make sure your next strategy is a success.

Millennials want to do their best, so take more than an hour to engage them in the big picture and show them how they fit into the new strategy.

Taco Bell leaders felt that Bold Future and the Root partnership made a great impact on the business and its thousands of restaurant and field leaders.

Syngenta worked closely with Root to coordinate the implementation details for this large, global effort to sustain strategic change.

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority chose Root for a program to help get clear and aligned on the strategy and help sustain it among stakeholders.

Pulte partnered with Root to explain to the company the new strategy, how the business would change, and what individuals needed to do differently.

Petco and Root created a transformation plan to build company trust in leaders, to see the goal was not only possible, but that everyone played a big part

The BCG Executive team approached Root to help them orchestrate a Leadership Forum to create a change process to address these issues and opportunities.

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