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Being agile and able to adapt quickly is crucial to an organisation’s success. Yet many companies struggle with this, especially when it comes to major changes. In her article, Kristel Bracke gives us valuable tips on how to implement successful change in practice. Topics covered include: the importance of change agents; adopting a 360° approach; making necessary adjustments to the organisational structure; active stakeholder management; combining a top-down and bottom-up approach; determining what should not change; communicating the right message at the right time; Design Thinking and the importance of strong leaders in facilitating the change process. Read more

In ‘Onboarding: van informatie-overdracht naar duurzaam leren en gedragsverandering’ Katrijn Steenbeke states that in many organisations, onboarding fails to sufficiently help new employees settle in for the long term. An important explanation for this is that traditional onboarding often gets bogged down in administration and information transfer, while onboarding is essentially a social learning process. In her article, Katrijn outlines five principles that can be used to design onboarding as a learning strategy: respecting cognitive capacity; allowing space for active processing; consciously incorporating repetition; embedding onboarding in a social context; and placing an explicit focus on behaviour and habit formation. Read more