The challenge of relevance in day-to-day business tasks is often the biggest obstacle in managing corporate change, according to business guru Peter Senge, who will hold his first United Arab Emirates (UAE) seminar on January 19, 2004, in Dubai.
Senge points out that the all-too-frequent management team debate on what tasks are considered essential is a potential stumbling block for the embrace of change in organizations.
“For some reason, the majority in the workplace tends to see many tasks as time-wasters. The issue, however, is the task's relevance to the end objective for the team as a whole,” said Senge.
According to Senge, relevance is about how team members can connect elements of significant change to the actual activities in their day-to-day lives – and make them tangible and not considered mundane, as is often the case.
“Management must be ready to deal with these basic questions in order to start building significant momentum for change throughout the organization,” concluded Senge.
More than 250 delegates are expected to discuss Senge's theories during the author's first seminar, the Learning Organization, organized by the Dubai-based learning and training consultancy knowledgenetwork. — (menareport.com)
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