How to Organise a Kick-off Meeting for Your Line Managers?
Do not make the common mistake of putting all your energy and resources into organising fancy internal events for your line managers. The chances of a single corporate event, no matter how awesome, creating a lasting impact on your line managers is very slim. You want to please your board with the sustainable outcomes of a strategic change campaign, not with the short-lived results of stand-alone events.
How Do You Design a Communication Campaign to Drive Change Into Your Asian and Expatriate Line Managers in Asia Pacific?
7 Asian and 3 expatriate managers were in a lessons-learnt workshop. The 3 expatriates’ voices were louder than the 7 Asians. Eventually the key points on the whiteboard were written up as a PPT and circulated as the outcome. Lessons learnt workshop completed. Tick in the box. Questions is, could a more diverse range of viewpoints been produced if the cultural differences of the target audience had been taken into consideration when designing the workshop?
The Structure of this Book
This new book in the making called “For Those In-Charge of Change” is divided into 10 parts: Culture, Change, People, Communication, Project Management, Line Managers, Customisation, Sustainability, Toolkits and Roadmap. Written from and for the Asia Pacific region.
Start Here If You Are New to This Blog
This blog is essentially a working platform for a book that I am writing since August 2017. When this book is finally finished, it will probably be one of the very few books in the world that actually tells you in plain language and yet practical ways how to communicate change in the Asia Pacific region in a really awesome way, especially for the many multinational companies operating here.
How Do You Enable and Engage Your Line Managers in Asia Pacific?
“You have to enable and engage the managers!”. I know that you may have heard this many times before. But those two small words “enable” and “engage” describe something so incredibly difficult to achieve because that’s the secret behind the success of a great change campaign.
What is the Role of Line Managers and Why Are They Important in Times of Change in Asia Pacific?
It’s not the board or the middle management or the project team that has the biggest influence on staff during change. It’s the immediate line manager of a team who reigns supreme because he is both master and commander, coach and colleague, friend and confidant all rolled into one.
Why Do You Need to Translate Change Messages into Local Languages in Asia Pacific?
If you take time to think about it, everything else being equal, a well-localised change message in one’s own native tongue is the first step towards touching someone’s heart and mind. Now, isn’t that great for the change effort?
How Do You Decide What to Localise and What Not to Localise When You Communicate Change in Asia Pacific?
While localisation is a powerful technique to make your local change communication campaign successful , it is also a double-edged sword. If you under-localise it, you won’t sweeten the message. If you over-localise it, you will loose the message itself. Conclusion? The middle-way.
Why Do You Need to Localise the Way You Communicate Change in Asia Pacific?
53 countries, 4.4 billion people, 2,200 languages and the birthplace of the world’s 10 mainstream religions. Asia Pacific is diverse, in all the full sense of the word. So a pan-Asian, one-size-fits-all change communication campaign is not going to make it. It has to be customised for the local audience.
For Those In-Charge of Change 