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(For "writing in progress", visit Roelf's personal website by clicking here)

1. "Power to the Edge" - a new approach to creating more agile organizations

A Power Point deck which applies the Edge Organization ideas used by the Pentagon's Command and Control Research Program to frame the thinking about a major business transformation project in which a client was engaged. The Edge organization principles, in a military context, were explained in "Power to the Edge" by David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes (2003), which can be downloaded by clicking here. In the Power Point deck, the name of the client has been sanitized to "XXX" organization.

Click here to down load the Power Point deck (in pdf format).


2. "Reflections on the Realities of Organizational Change"

15 years experience with actually implementing major organizational change leads to some interesting reflections on why it does and does not always succeed . Click here to download it.

3. "A Sustainable, Staged Approach to Major Organizational Change or Turn-Around"

Major organizational change is not simple. Its success depends on many things. But one of the key components is the dynamics of the "trust" relationship between the "change sponsor" and the "change leader". Build such a relationship is facilitated by a shared "process" framework for structuring the change program. One such framework is presented here. Click here to download it.

4. "What's Wrong with Leadership Training Anyway?"

Providing leadership training may not be the best way to spend your scare training dollars ... ...

Published on the HR.com web site.
Available on the Web as a PDF (click on the URL that follows)
http://www.competencystyle.com/cspdf/Leadershiptrainingwrong.pdf

5. "A Guide for 'Coachees': Things to Reflect On When Working with a Personal Coach"

If you decide to invest in a performance improvement coach for an executive or other valuable employee, they might need this briefing in order to get the most out of the relationship ... ...

Available on the Web as a PDF (click on the URL that follows): http://www.competencystyle.com/cspdf/Coachee%27s%20guide.pdf

6. "A Manager's Short Primer on Resistance to Change in Organizations"

Every manager makes change of some kind, and every manager experiences resistance to it. This primer provides some guidelines on possible ways of responding to resistance.

Published in the OD Section on the HR.com web site.
Available on the Web as a PDF (click here):

7. "One Manager Asks: What Kind of Training Makes Sense?"

Every manager need to make wise training investment decisions. A checklist of five questions can help... ...

Published on the Chief Learning Officer web site.
(CLO site at: http://www.clomedia.com/)
Available on the Web as a PDF (click on the URL that follows)
http://www.competencystyle.com/cspdf/OneManagerAsks.pdf

8. Performance Management and Appraisal

Roelf has been writing about performance management and appraisal, although the material has not yet been formally published by WCI Press. The working version is available as a PDF on his personal web site. Click on the URL which follows to read about it, and to get access to the PDF: http://www.roelfwoldring.com/Permang.htm.

9. Meetings, Meetings, Meetings ... ...

Anyone who works in an office context, and most of us who work in industrial or field environments, attend meetings. We all "learn" most of our meeting participation and management skills "on the fly" through "on the job" attendance at meetings where we absorb things that seem to work (or not) from others.

Roelf has been working on "Facilitating Meetings", a book which takes a more structured approach to developing meeting participation and meeting management skills. The book will be published by WCI Press. In the meantime, you can get access to a draft copy of it by clicking on the URL which follows, which takes you to the relevant page on Roelf's personal web site: http://www.roelfwoldring.com/FacilMeet.htm.

10. Shorter articles on workplace psychology topics

11. In the June of 2005, Roelf give a presentation on Technical Writing at the Canadian Authors' Association Annual Conference ...

"Technical Writing ... or Getting Paid to Write (Sometimes)"

12. Personal Professional Competencies - WCI's PPC Program

A Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that explores the conceptual background to the development of the Personal Professional Competency program and the Competency Styles® tools. Click here to download it.

13. Managing Pilot Projects

Describes how pilot projects best structured and managed. Click here to download it.

14. "Handbook for New Members of Automation Project Steering Committees"

Helps new members of automation steering committees understand their role. Click here to download it.

 

 

 


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