Change Management Insights - Think Transition

Conversations about Climate: How Change Management Can Bridge the Divide

July 22, 2022

Social media, newspapers, news feeds, television — anywhere you look, you’ll find something about climate change and the devastating effects it is having around the world. Close to home, shifting weather patterns — record-breaking floods in Ontario, tornadoes in the mid-western U.S., droughts and devastating wild fires along the west coast of the U.S. and Canada — have created a stark reality. And yet, the debate about whether global warming and climate change are real continues. For someone like me, who looks to science to guide my thinking, it’s hard to understand how there can be any debate.

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Do We Really Resist Change?

July 8, 2022

The idea that people resist change has become so embedded in the way people talk about change that it is often the first thing leaders think and talk about when an employee doesn’t immediately accept or embrace a change they want to implement.

It’s Not Resistance, I Promise

June 17, 2022

It is possible to break the cycle and prevent resistance to change. The first step is recognizing if you are working with a resistant mindset.

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The Invisible Impact of Your Culture

June 10, 2022

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Change Isn’t Supposed to Be Tidy

May 18, 2022

In the real world of organizational change, even a well-planned change is uncomfortable; both for the people doing the heavy lifting, and for the leaders, as they help their team navigate the discomfort. The change can feel chaotic and messy.

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The Value of Personal Change Readiness

May 5, 2022

This week, I am republishing a post I wrote about my mother’s incredible strength and change readiness.My mom celebrated her 83rd birthday this year. And we had planned to celebrate together, with her coming to the west coast. But like so many things over the past two years, our plans changed, and it was a virtual celebration.

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What a Smoker Taught Me About Collateral Change

April 28, 2022

Collateral change is the ability to achieve other strategic or desired new behaviours without consciously adding new change initiatives or projects.

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Want to Enable Change Easier? Shift Your Mindset

April 21, 2022

To reduce the discomfort of change and make it easier for your employees and your organization to adopt new activities, you need to shift your mindset.

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What To Do When Current Habits Prevent New Opportunities for Your Organization

April 15, 2022

How many behaviours that we label as a bad habits were initially simply a behaviour of opportunity? A circumstance initiated a conscious or unconscious response, which became rooted in our pattern of behaviour.