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Mon, Jul 15, 2019

Identify Your Triggers to Manage Stress

By Mindy Kantor Founder of Cultivate Insight Partners, LLC I know how my body feels when stress is nearing. My heart starts pounding, my internal antennas are on alert, my teeth clench, and my mind becomes hyper-focused almost causing a self-made headache. As the adrenaline races through my veins, I pause, breathe, and sigh. Then […]

Wed, May 29, 2019

Trying to Change? Develop These Five Character Traits

By Mindy Kantor In a previous blog post, I shared that transformation starts with I. We must we choose to change how we behave and act, if we expect others to follow along. As someone determined to enjoy my own transformational journey instead of being focused on an outcome, I know it’s easier said than […]

Thu, Apr 4, 2019

5 Ways to Feed Your Energy to Cultivate Positivity and Resilience

By Mindy Kantor For anyone who travels, you know the drill, in case of emergency put your oxygen mask on first before helping others. To cultivate a positive culture in any organization, you need to make sure your mind and body are infused with upbeat thoughts and vigor. Here are five easy ways to […]

Tue, Feb 5, 2019

Transformation Starts With I

By Mindy Kantor Transformation involves planning, designing and realizing a new reality. In organizations, success is determined by reaching a desired goal or target. Often change management programs are planned to help employees navigate, adjust and adapt a new way forward. Used interchangeably here, change or transformation, albeit slightly different in magnitude and scope by […]

Wed, Nov 7, 2018

Successful Change in an Agile Environment

Setting up infrastructure to ensure that change management tools can be optimized for an agile environment is important groundwork for ensuring that changes succeed when iterative agile work begins at full speed. When changes are happening in rapid succession very quickly, it is important to have an infrastructure that allows the team to focus on […]

Tue, Jun 5, 2018

Use Change Management to Build a Change Competency

It takes change management to do change management. When building a change management competency, take a change management approach: • Define a vision and make a case for the change • Find a leader sponsor • Involve, communicate and educate • Train • Create short term wins and measure results Like any organizational competency effort, […]

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

Using Agile Change Management in a Hyper Fast Growth Company

by Shannon Stautberg Picture This… A fast-growing international company is doubling in size every year. That means new people, new processes, new customers, new business segments, new almost everything every few months. The speed of change at which this company is growing could rival even the fastest bobsled track! What does change look like in […]

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