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    this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

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    Back, (maybe I should say "way back") in the '80's, as a senior manager in Hewlett Packard Ltd.,UK, I was regularly asked to give talks to groups from both the public and private sectors.

    The most common themes were People Development, Performance Appraisal, Continuous Improvement and "Managing Change"

    I suppose it would be fair to say that my 'presentations' and discussions were somewhat animated with a great deal of walking about and mingling with the audience. So much so that I could not get comfortable with overheads and tended to use two flipcharts on which I could prepare key messages on one and take notes on the other especially when important points were made or questions were not answered fully.

    It would also be fair to say that after a while the talks became routine and I always welcomed a challenging group with whom we could have a lively discussion instead of a one-way presentation.

    The Question That Almost Threw Me

    On one occasion, I had just been introduced and had given a brief overview of the session to a group of around a couple of hundred members of the police force, when this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

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    and "Managing Change"

    I suppose it would be fair to say that my 'presentations' and discussions were somewhat animated with a great deal of walking about and mingling with the audience. So much so that I could not get comfortable with overheads and tended to use two flipcharts on which I could prepare key messages on one and take notes on the other especially when important points were made or questions were not answered fully.

    It would also be fair to say that after a while the talks became routine and I always welcomed a challenging group with whom we could have a lively discussion instead of a one-way presentation.

    The Question That Almost Threw Me

    On one occasion, I had just been introduced and had given a brief overview of the session to a group of around a couple of hundred members of the police force, when this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

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    on which I could prepare key messages on one and take notes on the other especially when important points were made or questions were not answered fully.

    It would also be fair to say that after a while the talks became routine and I always welcomed a challenging group with whom we could have a lively discussion instead of a one-way presentation.

    The Question That Almost Threw Me

    On one occasion, I had just been introduced and had given a brief overview of the session to a group of around a couple of hundred members of the police force, when this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

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    ould have a lively discussion instead of a one-way presentation.

    The Question That Almost Threw Me

    On one occasion, I had just been introduced and had given a brief overview of the session to a group of around a couple of hundred members of the police force, when this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

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    this sergeant in the front row piped up...

    "What gives you the right to talk about managing change?"

    Wow! Did that stop me in my tracks.

    Slowly walking over to the flipchart, I'm thinking how do I answer this one?

    There was only one thing for it! Flipchart pen in hand, I turned, looked at the sergeant and said:

    "Well, let me see" as I started the list

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  • "All I can say, sergeant, is that any one of the items on the list can be a significant change situation. Certainly some may be perceived as more serious than others but all change situations need the appropriate due care and attention, especially when they involve others"

    While we continued with the discussion following the rest of the presentation part, it became clear that there was a general perception that change or the management of it wasn't a problem for companies such as Hewlett Packard compared to the public sector.

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