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Management Zone

7 WAYS TO COMMUNICATE CHANGE

Peter de Jager

Ask anyone, from lowliest staffer to most senior manager, what the “secret” to good change is – and you might be surprised to discover that we all know the answer. Even if we don’t have an MBA – even if we never finished high school – we all know that the so called “secret” of good change is communication.

If this “secret” is so well known, why is organizational change so incredibly difficult for most organizations? Based on hundreds, if not thousands, of discussions, I’ve come to the sad but inescapable conclusion that, while we know that we have to communicate, we don’t really know either how or what to communicate. And, in some cases, we don’t know what the word “communicate” means.

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The Blarney Stone is just a rock without its mythologies and cultural context; the Plains of Abraham are just manicured parklands without the dramatic historical narrative. – Greg Baeker, senior consultant, AuthentiCity & David T Brown, professor, Brock University.

Read this article in the September 2010 issue of Municipal World.

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JON LINTON is a management consultant specializing in strategic planning and community economic and tourism development. He has worked in this field for nearly 30 years and his clients have been municipalities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, destination marketing organizations, provincial and federal government departments and agencies, downtown revitalization organizations, social service agencies, and many other not-for-profit associations with varied mandates and responsibilities, some too bizarre to mention. He has worked extensively across Canada (literally from Victoria to St. John’s) as well as in the US and beyond. He was a Partner with Ernst and Young and left them in the mid-nineties to help form TCI Management Consultants, where he has been happily ensconced ever since. Never a dull moment in his consulting career.

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Feature Book

Municipal Ethics Regimes – [Item 0045]

Authored by Gregory J. Levine, a lawyer who practices municipal and administrative law in Ontario. He is also author of The Law of Government Ethics: Federal Ontario and BC (Canada Law Book, 2007), and a member of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and British Columbia.

Canadian municipalities faced with ethical challenges, as well as the ethically challenged, are at an important juncture. Increased public concern with the conduct of municipal government and administration have led several provinces to change municipal legislation to either reflect new concerns or to allow for the creation of new ethics mechanisms. Ethics regimes encompass different philosophical and social concerns, as well as different practical mechanisms for dealing with ethics problems. This book explores three areas of concern and their associated mechanisms at the local level: integrity, codes of conduct, and ethics and integrity commissioners; lobbying, lobbyist registration and lobbyist registrars; and, administrative justice, administrative justice codes and ombudsmen. Taking a pan-Canadian approach, while being sensitive to varying municipal and local government legislation and frameworks across Canada, this book outlines key features of these regimes and offers practical information for and insight into designing and implementing effective ethics mechanisms at the municipal level. This book is a must-have for municipal council members, civic administration, arts and cultural organizations, heritage groups, business leaders, and community activists.

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