October Inspiration From Evolving Strategies: Learn. Change. Lead.

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Ideas to ignite your personal, team and company performance

Welcome to the Evolving Strategies monthly newsletter providing you with ideas to ignite personal, team and company performance during change. Evolving Strategies is a consulting firm helping companies and people learn, change and lead. Have a topic or challenge you'd like to see addressed? Email us. Thank you - Sandy

How to Handle Bewitching Temptations During Organizational Change

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” - Dorothy Nevill, British Writer 1826-1913

During organizational change, you can expect to meet many who hold strong views and who seem uninterested in anything but a monologue. How do we engage them in a dialogue? Here are 4 ways you can get yourself prepared to handle them.

“I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.”
- Richard Avedon, (1923 – 2004), giant in the world of photography, fashion and journalism

Organizational change disrupts predictability, and erodes our perceived control. What can we do as a leader or a member of the team undergoing change? Implement these suggestions among your stakeholders, to build positive responses, abilities, trust and support.

“Let chaos storm! Let cloud shapes swarm! I wait for form.”
- Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner

Change invokes many questions from those affected. What can effective communicators of change management do to smooth the process? First answer the questions of “Five W’s” – the what, why, who, when and where of the change to build awareness. Then followed by more specific and granular “H” – the how.

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”

- Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976), world’s best selling novelist

Habits are our conscious or sub-conscious patterns of repeated action. But can we really replace a bad habit with a good one for lasting change? Follow these 3 steps proven by behavioral psychology researchers.

About Sandy Schwan:

Sandy is the managing partner of Evolving Strategies LLC, a consulting firm helping companies and people learn, change and lead.

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