I have talked in earlier posts about the blog “Embracing Change” that supports the sharing and documentation of the organizational change process of the CGIAR. In this post I would like to look closer at the learning curve and the progress that I have been observing and talking about with...

Twittering away... Attending a workshop in a time zone vastly different from your own can often tax your powers of concentration, especially when you have to participate in an afternoon session after a heavy lunch. Full stomachs and jet lag can lead to diminished attention spans, putting pressure on...

A workshop for CGIAR communications professionals will take place next week at WorldFish Center, in Penang, Malaysia. From March 23 to 26, some 20 participants from 14 CGIAR centers, the Secretariat and the Alliance will meet to: Provide input into communications during the CGIAR reform process and...

Live Updates from AGM08 on the Change Management Blog The CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2008 (AGM08) is in full swing in Maputo, Mozambique, with some 500 participants from around the world. The revitalization of the CGIAR is a prominent topic at AGM08 and blogger Sue Parrot is covering these events live...

Recently I was introduced to Wordle, a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. So one week from the CGIAR Annual General Meeting to be held in Maputo, I looked at the CGIAR Change management...