Photo by hay s on Unsplash As someone who spends much of my life thinking about change, I am no better at dealing with change than anyone else. Perhaps more aware of how change impacts me and why I might react in the way that I do, but that is it! And the last...
I’ve been reflecting on reflection recently. Mainly because I have been very busy and have lacked time during the day to truly reflect on my work. This has led me to reflecting in the evenings, sometimes in the middle of the night, which has not been good news for...
Isn’t it great when different strands of ideas that you have been pondering come together? I’ve been thinking for a while about nostalgia in organisations and also about team and individual identity during change. In fact, I’ve written...
The February 2021 edition of The Change Conversation is out now, featuring news about new ChangeStories podcast episodes as well as some really interesting research about pausing and reflecting during change programmes and reframing change resistance. There are also...
One of the most interesting points that emerged from my PhD research was the importance of the hidden factors in organisations that can impact on their ability to move forward and change. The iceberg model is well known as a model of organisation culture. But, in my...
Recently I’ve been thinking about or perhaps rethinking change resistance. Twenty years ago, when I first started out working in organisation change, resistance was seen as a difficult behaviour perpetuated by difficult people. Every day I saw managers and change...
