MIND THE GAP: LEADING CHANGE WITH OPEN EYES Part Three: Where Role Demands Meet Unconscious Bias
In my last post we explored how the perception-reality gap between senior executives and middle managers shows up during organizational change and the negative impact the gap has on people and business success. But what causes this gap in the first place? In my experience, one driver is the interplay between the role demands of…
Mind The Gap: Leading Change With Open Eyes – Part Two: How the Gap Shows Up
“We’re good at change. It’s business as usual and not an issue here.” “We invest in resilience training because we know our people can use support in building this muscle.” “We just need to get through these next few phases (restructures, layoffs, etc.) and then the team will adjust.” We started this blog series by…
Mind The Gap: Leading Change With Open Eyes – Part 1
The Alternate Realities of Organizational Change Two decades ago, change was framed as an innovative and noble undertaking organizations intentionally created for success. Today, perpetual change is accepted as a natural state for all organizations. Unfortunately, familiarity does not always create successful change rollouts, and that can often be attributed to a gap in perception,…
The Steps to Owning Success for Change: A View from the Trenches
As an executive coach, I am driven to ask the tough questions that help people on their leadership growth journey. For better or worse, that mission is not limited to my clients. My husband Daryll likes to tell the story of a time when we first started dating and he called me to complain about…
The Four Cs: Inspiring Growth Through Change
When people ask what calls me to this work of being a leadership coach and consultant myanswer is simple: the power of the human spirit. Time and again, I’ve seen the tremendousimpact people create when positively and productively focused, even during impossible, painfulsituations. They’ve taught me that change, whether desired or undesired, can betransformative. This…
Three Practices to Build Confidence During Change
Over the past two months my social media feed (like yours, I’m sure) has been full ofcomparisons between leaders handling and mishandling the pandemic. What I see nowreinforces what I’ve observed for years: those who are doing it right consistently connect withthe emotional, human side of this major work life transition in an authentic, constructive…