Change Course

Are you a leader who is planning a big change for your team, but doesn't know how to get your team ready for change? Often with big strategic changes or reorganization, we can't provide details before the change is announced. But if your team is completely in the dark, it makes responding to the change harder when it comes as a surprise. In this episode I talk about a recent example of how a leader prepared a team for chang...

Have you ever wished for a crystal ball so you would know when change is coming? When we're trying to figure out how to be better at managing and leading change, an unexpected change can completely throw us off track. But what if we knew that change was coming? In this episode I walk through the 5 biggest indicators that change is coming that you should be looking for. Think of be as your back-pocket secret that can help you an...

Emotional responses are a fact of change -- but why do they happen? Context is really important and how people have to show up inside organizations, we are rarely in control of our organizational destiny and it makes change feel like it is happening to us instead of being in charge of it. This episode covers the 4 fear responses and what they look like inside the organizational environment and why we rarely see anger expressed open...

Change is happening all the time, and guess what? It happened to me. Well that's not the whole story, but I've taken a break after some time away and I have to tell you that this has been the best decision, but not for the reasons you may think... I've been spending the past few months testing out Connected Change and I have some incredible things to share with you that I know will make us all more effective transformat...

Traditional Change Management approaches focus on two key things... communications and training. But what if your change isn't a giant implementation requiring thousands of people to attend training sessions?

What if your change is simpler than that?

Well, this might get change traditionalists a little upset, but sometimes you don't need a training plan at all!

In this podcast I go over how to figure out if your change ne...

Going "back to school" can mean a whole bunch of different things, but certainly for those of us who have school-aged children, and for those of us who work as educators, we're experiencing a massive shift from "summer schedule" to the "regular schedule". For those of you who are not currently in the back to school routine, the shift certainly has a ripple effect as many of us experience a transiti...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

We're back in this bonus episode with Stephanie J. Marshall, alignment coach, with a short, but unmissable episode. How can we bring a sense of ea...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

In this episode of Change: The Conversation we continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall. 
Resistance is the bane of the change manager&#...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

In this episode of Change: The Conversation we continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall. 
So, where the heck are we going? Change is th...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

In this episode of Change: The Conversation I have the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie J. Marshall.  I’m a client of Stephanie’s and a huge fan o...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

We're back for our third conversation with Nadine Araksi, and we are talking about when you want to build a new future, the stories that you ...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

Nadine Araksi and I are back with another conversation on the power of story, and in this one, we get deep into how to use story to bring about chang...

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you!

We hope that you enjoy them!

This week I'm joined by Nadine Araksi, an expert on stories and how they can facilitate incredible change. Nadine talks about the client work tha...

I recently re-listened to my very first episode of the Change Course podcast, and had a chance to reflect on how far we've come, and where we are going.

I have some updates as well, on the summer months for the Change Course podcast, and some exciting content that I'll be bringing you!

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If the world of change facilitation has changed, what does that mean for us as facilitators? We've talked about changing the approach and the tools, but what about how we show up as facilitators at the event itself?

In this episode I talk about energy and how important it is to bring the right level of energy and enthusiasm to your virtual or hybrid event.

I reflect on some recent experiences where I attended a virtual event a...

Last week we talked about how much of the world of change facilitation has changed with our new ways of working in virtual and hybrid environments. This week I talk about how we need to change the tools that we are using to make change facilitation in these new environments successful and engaging for participants.

Remember the days of flip charts and sticky notes? I do... fondly! I used to love getting up in front of a room and f...

The way we facilitate change has changed! With the shift towards virtual and hybrid environments, it's almost impossible to get a team of people into the same room together to do anything face-to-face. If you do, it's a real treat!

In this episode I share what I've learned over the past several years working with global companies and through the big shift to remote work, on what makes change facilitation in hybrid and ...

I've spent the past few weeks speaking with incredible companies about change, and working with change sponsors. Here's the thing... the way we do change is changing. I'm hearing from so many more operational leaders who are now being asked to lead change more and more, and they're feeling pushed out of their comfort zone!

For sponsors who are really good at operations, change presents a challenge. How can you...