A Change Effort Fails for Human Reasons.
Employees may...

• See no need for the effort
• Misunderstand their role in it
• Believe that they can ride it out until things "get back to normal"
• Resist it because new responsibilities were forced upon them
• Ignore it because they were never asked for their opinions
• Ignore it because they had their opinions dashed

While these may be “soft” reasons for failure, they have hard consequences to the organization in terms of productivity lost and money burnt. The best way to make change happen -- indeed, the only reliable way -- is for leaders and workers to come together, understand each others' positions, and use the unique knowledge in the room to drive the effort.

This is where we at The Axelrod Group can help.

We design collaborative systems which enable leaders and workers to jointly construct a company both profitable and worthy of pride. Some have called our practices “organizational barn raising” because the focus and energy shown by participants reminds them of the old-time, community barn raisings, in which neighbors would erect a sturdy building in a weekend. We like that comparison.

When a company is focused and the system its people work within calls for spirited involvement, remarkable things can occur quickly.