How Conflict Management Skills Help Make Change Easier: Insights from Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan

Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan
As a Change Management Speaker, I can assure you that Change is inevitable in every organization, and with it often comes conflict. Whether it's adjusting to new technologies, leadership shifts, or revamped strategies, conflict can arise as people react to disruption. Mike Hourigan, a renowned Change Management Speaker, emphasizes that conflict management is crucial in making the transition smoother for everyone involved. Understanding the Relationship Between Conflict and Change...
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Unveiling the Secrets of Change Management with Speaker Mike Hourigan

Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan
In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to effectively navigate change has become a critical skill for organizations looking to stay competitive and thrive in the face of uncertainty. Change management, the structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state, is a key ingredient in successfully managing change. One individual who has made a significant impact in the...
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Mike Hourigan, Managing Change Keynote Speaker

Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So, let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we'll change the world." –Jack Layton, Canadian Politician and Writer As a motivational change management keynote speaker, I have seen far too many good people in great and not-so-great organizations react to change with only one emotion: anger. In my change management work...
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Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan: What Can You Manage?

Change Management Speaker
Are you struggling to navigate the complexities of change within your organization? Change management is a critical skill for businesses and individuals alike, and one expert who has made it his mission to demystify the process is the renowned change management speaker, Mike Hourigan. With a wealth of experience and a knack for engaging storytelling, Hourigan offers invaluable insights into what can be managed during times of change, and...
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Blog: Mike Hourigan, Workplace Change Keynote Speaker

As a workplace change management speaker and consultant, I am fascinated by how management “statistics” get perpetuated and become “truth.” Back in that pre-pandemic golden era of 2015, McKinsey & Company published an article entitled Change in Change Management. As I am a national speaker on change, I was naturally anxious to read the piece. The authors listed five principles of monitoring and ensuring change in this new, digital...
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Unveiling Transformation with Keynote Speakers on Change: A Roadmap to Adaptation

Keynote Speakers on Change
In the ever-evolving landscape of today's business world, change is a constant. It's a force that can shape the destiny of organizations, driving them toward growth and innovation. As the tides of change surge, the role of keynote speakers on change, emerges as a guiding beacon, illuminating the path forward for businesses seeking to navigate transformation. The Power of Keynote Speakers on Change: Keynote speakers on change are catalysts...
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Mike Hourigan, Change Management Keynote Speaker

Change Management Speaker
So, as a change management speaker, let me relate a fake conversation between the hiring manager and the top candidate that might help put the quote above with a sense of proper context. “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” -Ralph Marston, Self-improvement author After an exhaustive...
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Mike Hourigan best Change Management Speaker in Charlotte NC

The most important thing to remember about change in 2023 As a Charlotte-based change management keynote speaker, I understand that 2023 could present itself as the most challenging period of change in the last several decades. Whenever I speak on change management to my Charlotte, North Carolina audiences, I stress the power of connections and work friendships. What does happiness have to with change? As I was recently delivering...
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Blog Mike Hourigan is your Change Management Speaker

What do employees fear the most in this new “hybrid world?” As a change management speaker and change management consultant, I am witness to the deepest fears of those in my audiences. It’s not what you may think. In my role as a change management keynote speaker, I would caution organizations who believe the biggest fear is based on “catching Covid” or having to commute to the office twice...
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Blog: Mike Hourigan, Change Management Speaker

We all know that learning is cyclable. As a change management speaker, I have observed that most people understand that the best way to teach people is to be willing to learn, however, a lot of people have difficulty putting that into practice. As a result, the cycle of learning is often broken. When an organization is going through a change, it is as important to share perspectives as...
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Mike Hourigan is your Change Management Speaker

Anger to Change is not a Good Look As a change management speaker and change management consultant, I realize there are no end to theories about how individuals in a company react to change. Jennifer Herrity writing for Indeed.com (September 15, 2021) listed many of these models, all championed by psychologists, management consultants, business schools and the like. However, in speaking to groups on change management, in real time...
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Mike Hourigan your Change Management Motivational Speaker

Your Change Management Motivational Speaker Mike Hourigan says the following. “The McKinsey consulting group reports data that 70% of all change management efforts fail. A 30% success rate is troubling, particularly when considering the associated costs in the form of loss of competitive position, confidence of the workforce in leadership, and quality improvements and anticipated costs reductions.” It is called change fatigue, it’s a real thing, and no one...
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Mike Hourigan, Change Management Motivational Speaker

Change Management Meets the Hybrid Workplace As a motivational speaker on change management and the hybrid workplace, I hate to say, “I-told-you-so,” but I predicted the hybrid workplace well before anyone had heard of COVID-19. In fact, as a hybrid workplace, change management speaker, I remember an HR director at least two years before the lockdown introducing me as America’s Hybrid Workplace Motivational Speaker. There was a lot of...
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Mike Hourigan, your Change Keynote Motivational Speaker

Change for the Sake of Change is a Bad Look As a change management speaker who speaks to groups across America about negotiating and responding to workplace transformation, I am well-aware of the tumultuous times owing to inflation, mergers, acquisitions and business failures. Change in the Workplace  is everywhere, but is it always a good thing? The Boomerang In my last post, I talked about the so-called “Great Walkout”...
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Mike Hourigan best Change Keynote Motivational Speaker

The Workplace Balance Has Changed, Is Your Organization Prepared? It has argued that COVID-19 “changed everything.” As a national change management speaker, my counter argument is that COVID changed nothing but accelerated everything. In my keynote talks on change management, I point out that as the Omicron variant began to subside, the workplace would be re-balanced and employees would become not more powerful, but more heard and prone to...
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Mike Hourigan best Change Motivational Speaker

When Did We All Learn to Panic? ​As a change motivational speaker and change management speaker, I must obviously be aware of the present business climate, with research into trends and projections into the future. However, in speaking on negotiating change both in-person and virtually, I try to be a student of history. Much of the panic over change might be ascribed to social media or 24/7 cable news, but...
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Mike Hourigan the best Change Management Speaker

As a change management speaker and change management breakout session speaker my greatest passion is to help organizations manage change, and respond to change in challenging times. I think we would all agree that as a society, in the past decade, nothing has changed us as much as COVID. Clearly, we can always point to the rise of Facebook users, YouTube uploads, the appearance of Bitcoin, the increase in...
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Mike Hourigan is your Keynote Change Management Speaker

My twenty-year mission as a change management speaker has led me to the conclusion that most people don’t want to embrace change management, they want to erase it. In my in-person and virtual training sessions, I note that managing change is never easy. However, organizational change is made more difficult when employees intuitively know they must accept the changes in their organization, and then refuse to expose themselves to...
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Mike Hourigan your Change Management Motivational Speaker

As a change management motivational speaker, I have witnessed the rise and the wide-spread interest in a change management speaker. In fact, “Change Management” has become a modern-day buzzword. But can an executive leader truly manage change? I think not. I know that may sound controversial, but I have plenty of experts who agree with me. A classic article that first appeared in the prestigious Harvard Business Review in the...
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Mike Hourigan, your Change Management Speaker

As a virtual and in-person change management speaker, I am often asked if the pandemic of 2020 “changed anything” or will the world go back to business as usual? It is a complex change management question. My opinion is that nothing will ever be the same. V-Shaped Recoveries & Other Myths In my virtual talks on change management to many groups, I find it fascinating the number of people...
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