Share these talks and lectures with your colleagues
Invite colleaguesWe noted you are experiencing viewing problems
-
Check with your IT department that JWPlatform, JWPlayer and Amazon AWS & CloudFront are not being blocked by your network. The relevant domains are *.jwplatform.com, *.jwpsrv.com, *.jwpcdn.com, jwpltx.com, jwpsrv.a.ssl.fastly.net, *.amazonaws.com and *.cloudfront.net. The relevant ports are 80 and 443.
-
Check the following talk links to see which ones work correctly:
Auto Mode
HTTP Progressive Download Send us your results from the above test links at access@hstalks.com and we will contact you with further advice on troubleshooting your viewing problems. -
No luck yet? More tips for troubleshooting viewing issues
-
Contact HST Support access@hstalks.com
-
Please review our troubleshooting guide for tips and advice on resolving your viewing problems.
-
For additional help, please don't hesitate to contact HST support access@hstalks.com
We hope you have enjoyed this limited-length demo
This is a limited length demo talk; you may
login or
review methods of
obtaining more access.
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Change agent
- Key purpose of a board (1)
- Key purpose of a board (2)
- Reasons not to change (1)
- Reasons not to change (2)
- We’re reluctant to change
- We’re reluctant because...
- How do you do it? (1)
- How do you do it? (2)
- Reasons to change?
- Why think about change?
- Triggers of change
- As change agents …
- Being a change agent on the board
- Remember
This material is restricted to subscribers.
Topics Covered
- Key purpose of the board
- Reasons not to change
- Reluctance to change
- Reasons to change
Links
Series:
Categories:
Talk Citation
Sacks, R. (2020, February 27). Do we need change agents in the boardroom? [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 8, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/TVNY7193.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Other Talks in the Series: Attributes of the Professional Director
Transcript
Please wait while the transcript is being prepared...
0:00
Hello, my name is Ruth Sacks.
I work as a consultant in organization development and change,
and I also work for Northumbria Business School,
which is based in Newcastle.
This Henry Stewart Talk is about the attribute of a change agent and
on why we need people to be change agents on the board.
0:22
The attribute of a change agent is important for
companies and even more important for the board itself.
What board members should remember is that they are
there to develop the company and keep it successful.
That often means not doing what we've always done.
The attribute of a change agent is only one part of being a director.
Directors have a number of different aspects of their role,
and a change agent and understanding the needs for
change is something that they should be thinking about all the time.
Every director, whether executive or non-executive,
is on a board because of their expertise,
their skills and competence.
Change agency should be one of their characteristics,
and it is particularly at the board level,
a really important one.
Being a change agent is not just about the actual work of managing change,
of designing strategies, of understanding what is going on,
but at the board level,
it's also about being aware and open to your own attitudes to change,
your own ways of working as an individual and with the other members of the board,
and making sure that you are always being
effective for the benefit of the company for which you are a board member.