Your Workers Probably Think You Stink at Managing Change. Here’s How to Fix That |
Organizations evolve as business needs change, but not every manager is good at running the process.
BY KIT EATON @KITEATON
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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change,” according to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. By that measure, the average manager is duller than a dusty rock orbiting a distant moon, according to new research that shows how bad organizations are managing change. Data from Virginia-based management consulting firm Eagle Hill Consulting found that a huge majority of employees across the country, across generations, feel this way about their employer. The news may prompt you to change how you communicate with your workers when big changes are afoot.
In fact, in Eagle Hill’s survey of over 1,400 full-time and part-time U.S, workers, some three........