“Even a thorough project plan can leave room for confusion about individual duties. A RACI model — or a visual map of everyone’s responsibilities — helps to prevent chaos from ensuing.” But how can leaders use RACI effectively? Partnering Resources founder Maya Townsend is featured in this Build magazine article on the ubiquitous RACI model.
“The statistics on change are rather bleak. According to McKinsey Quarterly, only 38 percent of leaders who recently attempted an organizational change rated the outcome as better than somewhat successful.
“Not exactly a great track record. Speaking at the Inc 5000 conference, organizational expert and founder of Partnering Resources Maya Townsend shares some easy-to-implement tips for creating an environment that is open to change.”
Check out this article, by Kasey Wehrum of Inc. magazine, to learn how to successfully lead your organization through change.
“Everyone knows the law of large numbers: the bigger you grow, the harder it is to grow fast. But mathematics isn’t the only cloud threatening a successful company’s parade. “The growth that landed you on the Inc. 5000 carries with it the seeds of problems you didn’t have when you were smaller,” Inc.’s editor in chief, Eric Schurenberg, warned the audience at the annual Inc. 5000 conference.
“What got you here won’t get you there. So what will get you there?”
This article by Leigh Buchanan of Inc magazine will tell you. Partnering Resources founder Maya Townsend, one of the three panelists at the Inc 5000 conference, and is featured in the article.
Today’s customer landscape is not tomorrow’s. Yesterday’s star employees are not today’s. And who knows what the economy will do? Yet companies need to continue performing amidst these changes. It’s hard to see the forest-the ecosystem-when you’re stuck in the weeds.
Partnering Resources founder Maya Townsend presents a simple, yet robust, methodology for mapping business ecosystems and explore how HR professionals can use this strategic tool to benefit their companies at the 2013 SHRM Strategy conference. Participants will learn:
Join Partnering Resources founder Maya Townsend at the SHRM Strategy Conference in San Diego!
In June, eighty leaders of mid-sized companies convened at the Build Network conference in Cambridge, MA. The highlights (besides an incredibly enthusiastic, engaged audience that make my presentation on “Six Strategies for Making Change Stick” a ton of fun) were:
Maya Townsend of Partnering Resources presents “Six Strategies for Making Change Stick (HINT: Connections Matter!)” in July at the 2013 Build Boston SOLVE! Session. Here’s how Build describes the change strategy session:
Challenge: To get better, we have to evolve — but only 38% of leaders say their change efforts have actually improved performance. Why is it so tough to win buy-in and make change stick?
Solution: Change by dictum doesn’t work. The only thing that does: connections, and lot of them. Studies show that effective change makers simultaneously employ these six strategies for building the individual, social, and structural connections that make transformation excite — and, therefore, take hold within — an organization.
Excerpt from “Finding Value”: an article just published by OD Practitioner.
Several years ago, I was hired by a software client to help with strategic planning. When the company started fifteen years ago, its product was revolutionary but its uniqueness was not a permanent state. Other companies were offering software that provided similar functions. The channel partner who sold the company’s software was now offering a competitive product. Furthermore, hardware companies were embedding the software’s features into devices like printers, scanners, and faxes. This company needed help figuring out how to move forward amidst these challenges.
Eight years later and 2000 miles away, a diverse group came together to improve the health of adolescents in Austin, TX.
“Small talk can get big results — but only if you know how to use it,” says Robin Madell on Glass Hammer. Unfortunately, too many of us don’t know how to use small talk. We shy away from networking meetings where we’ll need to use it and cringe as we ask someone about the weather. Yet, small talk has a very important purpose. Learn about that purpose in this article, which features Maya Townsend of Partnering Resources and Dr. Robin Bernstein of Harvard University.
I’m delighted to announce that has published an article on the work done last year with the Austin Healthy Adolescent Initiative. “Illuminating the Invisible: Mapping Austin’s Adolescent Health System Using Value Network Analysis” provides a case study of how we used a specific technique to paint a holistic picture of how the system works from service provider and youth perspectives.
Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of the article:
In Austin, Texas, a diverse group of people—service providers, funders, and policy makers—came together to improve adolescent health. They ran into a critical issue: the adolescent health system was so complex, multifaceted, and dynamic that it resisted traditional analytical approaches.
If you're struggling with how to help your direct reports lead change, you're not alone. CIO Magazine readers, check your October 15, 2012 issue on page 12 for thoughts on what leaders can do to help their managers with change leadership. In the column, we cover:
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