Entries by Amanda Turner

Is Your Communication Style Causing Your Change to Fail?

When you think about when you hear communication? For most people, it’s about the giving and receiving of information. But authentic communication is so much more than that. It is an intricate exchange that involves what we see, hear, and how we know the information.

Why Uncertainty Creates Pushback

When you announce a change in your organization you’ve naturally created uncertainty. You’re asking a lot of your team. You’re asking them to trust you to lead the change and that the organization can support and accomplish the desired outcome. You’re also asking them to let go of what they know and to adopt new behaviours and activities. It’s natural for them to have uncertainty.  In this blog post, I want to explore our four responses to uncertainty and what you can do to help your team thrive with change.

Back to the Office Creates a Unique Opportunity

18 months ago, many of you sent your employees home and set them up to work remotely. You did it quickly without much time to prepare. As you look to the future, you have a unique opportunity to consciously transform to a new steady state. It starts with writing your intended outcome story.

Do You Still Have Curiosity?

In my book Launch Lead Live, I talked about seven characteristics of successful change leaders. Since then, I have added other attributes and skills leaders need to enable healthy and sustainable change. One of them is curiosity.

The more I practice curiosity and work with leaders to help them use curiosity to build readiness when leading change, the more I realize it is not just a characteristic of change leadership. It is an essential element for healthy and sustainable change.