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Mar 2025
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HR Means Business: HR Leading the Charge...

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HR Means Business: HR Leading the Charge for Meaningful Change

Host: Mervyn Dinnen

Guest: Lucinda Carney, Author, Psychologist, and Founder of Actus Performance Management

In this podcast interview Mervyn talks to Lucinda Carney, author of the best selling book "How to Be a Change Superhero" about HR's role in communicating and facilitating organisational change.

- Creating a safe environment for change

- The role of leadership in change management 

- Effective communication and understanding the 'why' behind change

- Technology as a driver of change but also as potentially a reason for its failure

- Involving all employees in the change process

- Recruiting for adaptability


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