Joy at Work Thinking
Part of the What-if Series: Risks Change Professionals navigate every day. What do you do as a Change Professional when you've just started on a project that's been in progress for a long time already?
Many Change Professionals believe that they're at a disadvantage when they don't start on a proje...
Written by Roxanne Brown
If you think change will be hard, it will be. We’ve seen it over and over again. If you believe your people can’t handle change or don’t like change then you are pretty much guaranteeing that it won’t go well. If you believe that your people can handle change and just n...
Written by Roxanne Brown
Are you an early adopter at work? Changing to something new while the folks around you haven’t changed yet takes courage.
Are you an influencer at work? Changing influences people around you to change too.
Are you slow to adopt changes at work? If you’ve been burned in th...
Written by Roxanne Brown
It’s not usually WHAT you want to change that upsets people, it’s HOW they feel they (and others) are treated in the process that is most upsetting. The best you can do is be intentional about how you want it to feel and decide what must be true for that to happen. Then...
Several signs indicate a growing, positive recognition of the Change Management profession. Roxanne Brown shares four myths and positive trends.
Written by Roxanne Brown
Originally published 6/20/17.
​Dear CM,
​When I first met you my life at work was in turmoil. At the office, people who were standing just feet apart wouldn’t acknowledge each other. It was as if they didn’t know how so they filtered each other out. Everyone decided to ...
Written by Roxanne Brown
You can use fear to make people change. It is a legitimate change strategy, especially in an immediate danger situation. But what happens is people freeze in place and only do what you tell them to do. They keep their heads down and keep to themselves. From time to time...
Written by Roxanne Brown
Before change can happen the leader must change first. This seems pretty straightforward but applying it can be challenging!
When change is introduced, people notice how the leader is modeling the change they want to see in others – or not.
If you think you’re fine, it’s ...
Written by Roxanne Brown
When leaders introduce change employees pay more attention to the words and actions of the leaders and influencers in the company. That’s because they’re trying to make sense of what’s happening and understand how they can be successful in this new situation.
They’re eva...
Written by Roxanne Brown
As a leader, your words and actions have a big influence on how others experience the change you introduce. Even so, your people can decide how well they adapt and how they experience the change.
It’s a partnership.
Your job is to tune in to how people are impacted. You...
Written by Roxanne Brown
We believe change and joy go together.
As a Change Management Professional, one of the reasons why change work is hard is because you can build a thorough, grounded change plan and run into a trust problem detour. Now you’re outside of traditional Change Management and ...
Written by Roxanne Brown
Early in my change career, my boss, my colleagues, and I were learning the art and science of change work by absorbing everything we could get our hands on. We poured over books together to see what we could glean that was relevant to our current business problems and a...
