Transition Leadership: Navigating the Complexities of Organisational Change

by Catherine Hayes

Overview

Integrating practitioner research with Buddhist philosophy, business and clinical psychology, this book provides a new perspective on leading change in organisations, supporting leaders and change professionals with insight into useful practices for today’s business environment. It identifies the unseen and overlooked complexities of the transition space, helping leaders to recognize patterns in their own leadership practices.  
This volume includes approaches for working at the intersection of complexity and ambiguity, and discusses how different mindsets impact behavior and outcomes which may get in the way of change agendas. It focuses on approaches for navigating the challenges of organisational transitions, while developing sustainable transition capabilities and practices 
A comprehensive new framework for understanding and shaping business management, Transition Leadership is a valuable resource for studentsand researches of business practices, work psychology, and transition and change, as well as current and future business and organizational leaders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030427870
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	05/15/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Catherine Hayes is an Organisation Development, Culture Transformation and Transition Leadership specialist.  With 30 years of improving operational and business performance through, systemic problem solving, designing, leading and facilitating organisation-wide transformation programmes.  Following two Executive Organisation Development roles in the Financial Services, Catherine transitioned into consulting in 2007, where she has worked across a broad range of industry sectors. 

Working in partnership with CEO’s, Boards and Executive teams, Catherine supports organisations to understand and navigate complex, development and transformation challenges to deliver tangible results.   Catherine’s passion and vocational purpose is supporting leaders and their organisations to embed Transition Leadership capabilities into their operational functioning.  Enabling leaders to utilise and replicate factors of success to enhance organisational effectiveness and create sustainable operational and business performance. 

Combining her practice and applied research with Buddhist philosophy, business and clinical psychology, Catherine has created transition diagnostic analytics and tools that support insight into the complex operational functioning of organisations.  She utilises her transition leadership methodology and development approach to enable leaders and their workforces to acquire transition capabilities while implementing their transformation agendas.  She also runs the Transition Leadership Series for Executive MBA’s at Cass Business School.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1       Introduction.- Part I - Insights into Transitions.- Chapter 2       Transition Perspectives.- Chapter 3       Territories of Transitions.- Chapter 4       The Impact of Transitions.- Part II – Transition Leadership.- Chapter 5       Self-Insight.- Chapter 6       Team Transitions.- Chapter 7       Creating Supportive Environments.- Chapter 8       Transition Practices.- Part III – Transition Inquiry Practices.- Chapter 9       Inquiry In Organisations.- Chapter 10     Conducting Self-Inquiry.- Appendix: List of Case Studies.