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Kevin Dwyer

Kevin has experience in specific skill areas of manufacturing, marketing, channel management and product management. However, he enjoyed and still enjoys change the most.

He comes from an old school that experienced and led change first and learnt the theory later.

Kevin spent twenty three years working for Shell moving nine times from city to city and country to country, spending nine years in the UK and in Fiji.

Kevin has since managed small companies as CEO, founding Change Factory in 2004.

Change Factory helps organisations that do no like their business outcomes get better business outcomes through changing people's behaviour.

It works with organizations that do not like their current performance but cannot islolate the specific causes.

Change Factory's clients have usually tried several times to fix the problems themselves.

Change Factory untangles and isolates the causes for indifferent performance and creates solutions specific to each organization and its situation.

Change Factory guarantees to provide a solution within two weeks of being engaged.

Kevin grew up in a poor small farming community in Central Queensland, Australia. The pragmatic necessities of doing what has to be done in that environment are part of his personaility today.

He has a passion for Fiji and can be found there several times a year working on projects with the team in Change Factory (Fiji) Limited.

His other passion is setting up systems and processes through which people can actually learn and improve themselves, rather than the relative failure of "off the shelf" training programmes.

Articles by this Author
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» Change Management: Training Is Not Enough
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
Training as a tool for changing people's behaviour to better achieve the goal organisations set for themselves is a failure. Most organisations do not think through the design of their training enough to make it as useful a tool for employee developemnt as it should be. Hence they do not get sufficient return on their investment.
» Change: Evolution or Revolution?
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
What is better evolutionary or revolutionary change? Whilst revolutionary change is often required in an organisation, it can be a sign of poor management that has been unable to instil a culture of evolutionary change.
» Changing Organisational Culture Requires a Change in Leadership
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
Changing culture is not so difficult. Culture usually only raises its head as topic when results are not what we want and we provide leadership that allows an unsuitable culture to develop. By all means use some tools to help understand and monitor culture, but we must provide a change in leadership to change culture.
» Change Management: Clear, Strong Goals
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
If your team is lacking in productivity and performance then as a leader, check your organisation's goals. Are they clear, singular, numeric, time based and audacious, with supporting short-term goals? Have you communicated the goals persistently and consistently? Are you using performance management to ensure that you have a team with the right behaviour, skills and knowledge to achieve the goals? If not, the problem may not be your team, it may be you.
» Managing Change: Motivating People
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
Motivating people is a myth. People cannot be motivated by others. They are motivated from within. Leaders can however, set up an environment in which people are able to motivate themselves. Developing an environment that improves employee's motivation is hard work. There is no one size fits all solution, as motivation is driven by "what's in it for me".
» Managing Change: Unintended Consequences
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point of view and act accordingly.
» Training: Using Games to Embed Learning
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated

Too much training is boring. Too much training barely raises itself above level one in Kirkpatrick’s four levels of training evaluation. That is, the reaction of students; what they thought and felt about the training. Too much training ignores the learning needs of the participants. Too much corporate training spending is wasted.

» Making Change Happen: In Search of the Silver Bullet
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
Too many organisations search for a “silver bullet” to fix their human resource problems. They search for a singular, narrow approach to improve performance when a broad holistic approach is required. The result of focusing on a narrow approach to improve performance is unintended consequences delivering reduced performance instead.
» Managing Change: What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid?
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Unrated
If you are managing change consider the following from the book "Who Moved my Cheese?"; “If you do not change, you can become extinct”. Use the statement to provoke a reaction and get a discussion going.
» Managing Change; Ten Signs of Organisational Decay
By Kevin Dwyer | Published 09/29/2006 | Change-Management | Rating:

Organisations that regularly take a good hard look in the mirror at themselves tend to avoid the worst of sudden changes in fortune. They may choose to do so at their annual retreat or at an annual challenge session where the executive team complete a “what if” analysis to see if their strategies and tactics are still suitable to achieve a goal which is still appropriate.

Organisations when facing the implications of a sudden change in fortune that complain about their bad luck start or continue the steady decay into irrelevance.

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