Ian Adkins

🔶 People-Centric Change & Transformation Consultant 🔶 Turners Company Liveryman 🔶 Veteran

[Ian Adkins @IanAdkins]

Leaders are asking, "What is our AI strategy?" A better question is "What culture will our AI strategy require?" The tech is a powerful accelerant. It will accelerate your existing culture, for better or for worse.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Culture #Strategy #FutureOfWork

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Do your people feel safe enough to tell you the truth? Leaders do not create safety by asking people to be brave. They create it by modelling vulnerability and rewarding the messenger who brings bad news, not shooting them.

#PsychologicalSafety #Leadership #Transformation

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Stop trying to change your entire culture. It is too big and too slow. A more effective, evidence-based approach is to focus on identifying the 3-5 "critical few" behaviours that will have an outsized impact.

#CultureChange #StrategyExecution #BehaviouralScience #Leadership

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We often label middle managers as the "frozen layer" of resistance during a transformation. I suggest they are often the broken layer.

If you want to unfreeze the middle, first fix the broken system around it.

#ChangeLeadership #Management #OrganizationalCulture #Transformation

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A common trap in post-merger integration is focusing on the wrong level of change. The real value is lost at the transformational level: clashing leadership styles, incompatible cultures, unwritten rules.

#MergersAndAcquisitions #M&A #Transformation #ChangeManagement #Leadership

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The change playbook tells us to win "hearts and minds." The assumption being if people change their thinking, their behaviour follows. But evidence suggests people act their way into new thinking, not the other way around.

#TransformationSurge #Transformation #CultureChange

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For the next month, I'm doing a deep dive: why so many transformations fail, and what the evidence tells us about how to succeed. We will challenge folklore and introduce a more rigorous, behaviour-led approach. #TransformationSurge #Transformation #Leadership #ChangeManagement

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We spend so much time and energy trying to get 'buy-in' for our strategies. What if we focused on removing the barriers that are preventing our people from executing? A subtle but powerful shift from persuasion to enablement.

#OrganizationalCulture #Leadership #Transformation

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In my engineering days, we'd never try to fix a complex system without a rigorous diagnosis first. Yet in business, we often launch multi-million-pound transformations based on anecdote and assumption. It's a curious, and expensive, discrepancy. #Transformation #Leadership

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A thought for leaders navigating change. What if the biggest risk isn't the change itself, but the outdated maps we're using to navigate it? The world has changed, but much of the change management playbook hasn't. Perhaps it's time for a new cartography. #ChangeManagement

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Your strategy is only as strong as the culture that executes it. If your people aren’t behaving in ways that support your goals, your strategy won’t deliver. Here’s what to do: https://t.co/sHgtmfRooU #Leadership #Culture #STRATEGY #culturechange

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70% of transformation efforts fail. The biggest reason? Culture. But not in the way most leaders think. Here’s why: https://t.co/sHgtmfRooU
#Leadership #Culture

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Just released: Closing the Culture Gap – my latest whitepaper on aligning strategy & culture for real impact. If you're tackling transformation, this is for you.

Download it here: https://t.co/sHgtmfRWes

#CultureByDesign #Leadership #ChangeManagement #CultureChange

[Ian Adkins @IanAdkins]

@Edeaulx @thetimes Hopefully, they'll republish it for free and get it right this time.

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In this video bio, I explore my 30+ year journey in leadership, strategy development, and building cultures. It's been fascinating to see how experiences have shaped my approach to change. Whatever the
strategy, it is all #culture! #ChangeManagement
https://t.co/Z3itHQDQTA

[Ian Adkins @IanAdkins]

Are you stuck in the "Think, Feel, Do" cycle for organizational change? Focusing on "Do" first can be the key to faster, more predictable results. The approach can seem counterintuitive but science and common sense back it up. #ChangeManagement #CultureChange #BehaviourChange

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Feeling overwhelmed & directionless? Craft a winning strategy in 10 steps! https://t.co/EruzsO8x34 #strategy #leadership #business

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Feeling overwhelmed by change? A leadership coach can be your secret weapon! 5 key questions to ask before you choose one: https://t.co/TQiOaL0eYo #leadership #coaching #changemanagement

[Ian Adkins @IanAdkins]

What does it take to lead in today's information age? My recent short article on 'Taming the Knowledge Beast' explores 3 essential pillars to leading in the knowledge economy and how to be a successful leader navigating this complex landscape.
https://t.co/4qpkDY55AJ

[Ian Adkins @IanAdkins]

We've graduated! What a fantastic and fitting end to a brilliant course. Also, I'm feeling happy to be in two of the pictures!!! Thank you so much to all the DS and course colleagues at the College of Defence Management # CDM_IDS

@UKDefenceIndia

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31 officers, including 16 from #FriendlyForeignCountries successfully completed four week Senior Defence Management Course at College of Def Mgt, #CDM_IDS.
Participants were exposed to contemporary #geopolitics, global #securitydynamics & management tools for #DefenceServices.