Where Professional Meets Personal: Navigating Change In the first two Navigating Change videos, we talked about setting expectations for remote teams and then empowering those teams to make the expectations their own. In this addition to the Navigating Change Series, you’ll learn how to enable individuals to get the best out of themselves. With simple tools and straightforward conversations, your teams and will be...
Navigating Change: Downsizing well One of the unfortunate realities of the COVID-19 crisis is the impact it has had on jobs and on the unemployment rate. Businesses of all sizes have felt the impact, with many forced to reduce their workforce and others facing a reduction in the coming weeks and months. Any leader, from small business owner to...
Navigating Change Series: Help your teams excel in times of change The Navigating Change Series continues with a guide to helping teams excel by empowering them to take ownership and accountability for their success during change. This is not to say they bear sole responsibility for navigating changes. Your role, as a leader, is the harder one. You have to let go of control and enable teams’ autonomy...
Navigating Change Series: Five things for leaders to keep in mind as they support remote teams It has been a whirlwind month since Clockworkers began working remotely. It’s hard to describe how much the world has changed in recent weeks. All of our patterns of behavior and expectations of “normal” have had to make innumerable shifts to keep up with the latest news, reality, and recommendations from government and health officials....
Navigating Change Series: Helping dispersed teams do their best Our first installment of the Navigating Change Series is focused on a timely topic for most businesses today: how leaders can support and get the best from their people now that teams are dispersed. All change is disruptive — you know this. But you can do things to minimize the productivity “dips” that come with this disruption....
Customer-centric innovation: Navigating AI, tech & change I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about Customer-centric innovation – Elevating experience through technology at the GDS Digital Innovation Summit in Boston. As expected, AI, data governance, and digital customer experience innovation were focal points of nearly every conversation with leaders attending from financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, and manufacturing organizations. What...
What is Change Management? And why does it work? Change management propels transformation. Organizations that practice change management are more resilient, better at adapting to challenges, and have a competitive advantage. Their people are equipped to learn, grow, and thrive amid change. What is change management? Change Management is the art and science of guiding people through changes in ways that make it easier...
What is experience design? Most people think of experience design as buttons, screens, or branding. But the real magic is bigger than that. It’s the intentional craft of shaping how people move through your business and how they feel while they’re doing it. When you design with people at the center, you don’t just get a smoother product. You...
The new rules of modernization: Why 2025 is different Something fundamental has shifted in how successful companies approach technology and product modernization. The old model of massive, risky overhauls has given way to strategic, incremental improvements that deliver value quickly while building toward bigger goals. This isn’t just about keeping up with technology trends; it’s about creating the flexible foundation your organization needs to...
Creating inclusive naming conventions in technology In software development, we joke about the three hardest things being naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. But for the first one, it’s no joke. We’ve been naming things wrong. Naming conventions are steeped in racism and patriarchy. Master, slave, blacklist, whitelist — these aren’t just words. They’re relics of a mindset we need...
