Navigating the Future of Change Management: Key Insights for 2025 and Beyond
As we move into the latter half of the decade, the landscape of change management continues to evolve at an accelerated pace. The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) highlighted in a session earlier this month, what is shaping the future of our field. From artificial intelligence to the human element of leadership, these shifts […]
A 20-Year Journey to Celebrate: The Evolution of Up Time Consulting
When I founded Up Time Consulting 20 years ago, I couldn’t have imagined how much we’d grow, the obstacles we’d face, or the lessons we’d learn along the way. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet the journey has been filled with constant change, growth, and, most importantly, people. Back then, it was just […]
Lessons From the Day of Love
Lessons From the Day of Love On the surface, Valentine’s Day is about the material things: chocolate boxes and teddy bears, special meals and outward, tangible expressions of feelings. But if we look a little deeper, it says a lot about how we relate to people and, as change managers, there are things we can […]
New Year’s Resolution: Staying Positive All Year
It’s New Year, New You season! People are speaking in motivational Pinterest quotes. Karen from accounting is on a juice cleanse. The gym is flooded with new converts to the cult of exercise (until they discover the church of Gin in February). It’s a great time of year – everything feels fresh and there’s a […]
Who needs the Care Bears? We just need self-care
We’re nearly at the end of the year; we’ve survived No-Sleep-November and have arrived at Finally-December. What a year it’s been: Notre Dame Cathedral went up in flames. Prince Harry and Rachel from Suits ate koesisters (not koeksisters) in Cape Town and perhaps the weirdest of all – Billy Ray Cyrus had a no.1 hit […]
Team(building) work makes the dream work
The word ‘teambuilding’ stirs up a few emotions – dread being the biggest of these. It immediately brings to mind trust-falls, sharing circles and awkward dancing. John from accounting spills his coffee at least once a day – no one wants to do trust-falls with John! Even the most extroverted employee will hesitate when asked […]
Resources are human: Why Building a Strong Partnership With HR Should Be One of Your First Steps As a Change Manager
As consultants, we enter organisations with a mission – we’re given a specific target with a defined set of outcomes: The (successful) implementation of a new ERP system, a switch in process, a culture refresh. Having something to aim for gives us something to measure against. And once we have this, we can get started […]
From Startup Dreams to Reality: Insights from the Founder of Up Time Consulting
“There is always a story to tell when you are “the founder” of a business. I had not imagined being a founder at an early age, but during my various (and there were many) different careers I felt a deep sense that there must be more to this ‘working thing’. Each role prepared me for […]
The Rules of En(R)agement
Every Change Manager has encountered a situation where conflict has prevented a project from moving forward or threatened its success. In some cases, they’re easy to resolve. In others, it feels like the only way to deal with it is to give everyone Nerf guns, let them loose in the office parking lot and see […]
Creating Culture
In organisations where employees come from different backgrounds, have different beliefs and behave differently as a result of both, there is a need for a corporate culture that all groups are able to internalise and adopt. Every employee that walks through a company’s doors, brings their culture with them. Having diverse cultures can be a […]