Diary of a Saasy Girl

I’ve been reading a book about change management by Prosci and they use a term called ADKAR to define the different stages of change.   A = Awareness D = Desire K = Knowledge   A = Ability R = Reinforcement   ADKAR can be used for both organisational and individual change management, it’s just the scale that is different. January is a time of year that many of us consider New Year resolutions, and many can often be health related, to help us work off the excesses we piled on over the Christmas period.   While it wasn't not a personal resolution, I was conscious of my over cake consumption and felt the need to do something about it.  I ’m going to use Prosci ADKAR to explain how I could manage this individual change.   Awareness is the first element. Like all over indulgence being aware of the problem is the first step. I was aware that my shape had changed over the months and agreed, if I didn’t alter my behaviour, then ...

Welcome to the new year, a new decade but before I get into all that, I'd like to take a moment to reflect back over the past year, 2019 and how's it been for me. Last New Year's Eve I shared my celebrations Gemma Blezard and, while I confess there was alcohol involved, I did agree to join the Ladies Be Architects movement and help them with process and general organisation.  Together in January we delivered a LBA Solution Design workshop for the London Admins Community Group.  LBA Solution Design Workshop In June, as part of the LBA, we were asked to be Keynote speakers for the inaugural Yeur Dreamin' conference in Amsterdam. The four of us joined together to create a talk about identifying and realising your goals to a mixed ability audience of 350 Trailblazers. It was certainly a special moment for us all to be asked and deliver a presentation of this kind. It was soon after that I had to weigh up my extra curricular commitments. I was moving into a hig...