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Collaborators in change

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“People support what they create”

Transcend works alongside leaders and their teams to guide, facilitate and build the capability to
implement effective organisational change … change that delivers sustainable results.

Working together

“Most solutions lie within you.” We work with our clients to help them see and understand their organisation a little more wisely (which often includes seeing themselves!). Together we set the change agenda, define and implement the bold moves that drive change forward, and learn and grow along the way to increase the chances of successful delivery.

Getting ‘unstuck’

Change is often led by launching lots of initiatives that make people busy but don’t change the essence of how they think and act. That does not bring sustainable change. We work to uncover the deeper dynamics that might be preventing movement in our client organisations. Based on this insight, we release what might be keeping the organisation stuck in repeating unhelpful patterns.

Building capability

We do this in a way that builds skills and confidence in our clients. We create the conditions in which clients evolve their own perception and practice. Together we explore, challenge and test, guided by the principles and frameworks that we know from our own research and experience can influence the success of leading change.

Sustaining change

Working together, getting unstuck and building capability – this all leads to change that will create greater lasting value.
We are passionate about leaving organisations more able to ‘do their own changing’.

"I have worked with Transcend on a number of Change projects around the world and have found them to be very valuable.
What they bring to the table is a great blend of theory and practice: knowing what buttons to push and how to get things done.
I have particularly valued their experience in helping high level management teams improve their performance."

Martin Lawrence, COO Energy/Customers,
EDF Energy

Learnings

Coaching Supervision
Michael Thorley
This brief article summarises what coaching and supervision is in the context of an organisational intervention that is helping generate a return on investment in the development of Change Leadership capability. We describe how coaching supervision was set up and give two examples More

Building the capability to lead change – how to set the initial "frame" for success. Nancy Clay
Have you wondered: how do you build the change leadership capability of your leaders in "real time" – i.e. while they are busy leading the implementation of the important work of the organisation? More

Successful change leadership
starts with you
Malcolm Higgs and Nancy Clay
The success of change depends on the leadership capability of individuals as well as organisations. How do your Change Leadership Practices shape up? Read more and try our CLP self assessment tools

Leadership is contextual. Why taking leadership models “off-the-shelf” never really seems to work. More

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Sustain.
Transcend launches new associate company to drive change leadership in sustainability. More

Leadership Advisory Group
We are in the early stages of forming a group of senior leaders with an agenda to explore how leadership can be a greater force for good in society. This truly cross-sector group comprising several public and private sector CEOs together with a Bishop and a 4 star General, will hold an agenda-setting meeting in the next three months. More

New research
A new research project led by Transcend research advisor Professor Malcolm Higgs is designed to explore the relationship between personal motivational profiles and individual's change leadership practices. More

Change Leadership Practices ...
self assessment
How good are you at leading complex change? Transcend now offers a suite of tools to enable you to assess and develop your own leadership skills. It starts here

See Transcend in Video ...
"The Aha! Moment"
4 minutes of "illumination". More

Transcend appoints
new Associates Paul Pivcevic and Nick Putnam More

Transcend appointed
by SAP, Lloyds TSB and a major high profile public sector organization More

FT Online
"Leading change is a challenge for Britain's party leaders"
Read Anthony Goodman's articles on Transcend research and coding of UK party leaders speeches. More