Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management Insights

In our top 5 blog posts for 2025, we shared that success in change requires a strategic blend of preparation and agility. By establishing credibility through clear 30-day planning and transparent, multi-channel communication, leaders can reduce resistance. Navigating unpredictability with curiosity and focusing on internal talent development ensures long-term engagement. Finally, tracking progress through clear metrics and baseline data guarantees keeps initiatives effective

Welcome to this week's Saturday Catch-up, where we round up essential insights on change management for small to medium enterprises. Creating change in business can be exciting, but also daunting-as the level of investment required can be significant. These five articles provide practical strategies to ensure your changes stick.

As the working year draws to a close, we bring together the most essential insights on change management that helped navigate transformation with confidence and clarity this year.

This week's Saturday Catch-up explores five essential insights on change management, from understanding the traits of successful leaders to navigating workplace dynamics and overcoming resistance.

For every small or medium business (SME), growth is the ultimate goal, but it often brings unexpected chaos and resource strain. This week's Saturday Catch-Up emphasises a core truth: managing change effectively is not an optional cost, but a critical, positive investment that maximises the ROI of every new initiative.

Welcome to your Saturday change management insights! This week, we're focusing on how to make your change initiatives effective, starting with the critical role of leadership, the necessity of tracking progress, and the power of generating quick, demonstrable wins to secure long-term success.

This week, our focus is on mastering change—whether it's on a personal or professional level. We'll explore how to set yourself up for success, manage resistance from others, and lead effectively through change.

Our five feature articles from this Saturday Catch-up: Making Change Meaningful, explore how focusing on people's needs, empowering stakeholders, and understanding accountability can create a better experience for everyone, from your employees to your customers

Our five feature articles from this Saturday Catch-up: Strategically Planning for Change, explore the crucial role of strategic planning in building successful change. From the importance of strategic planning, its key components, and the steps involved in creating an effective strategic plan.

Our top posts in recent months have highlighted that whether you're guiding an entire organisation or navigating your own career, success comes from deliberate planning, building genuine connections, and consciously defining what growth looks like. Today we look at how these ideas connect.

If we're heading out on any kind of journey into unfamiliar territory, it's very comforting to have access to a roadmap. Depending on our spirit of adventure, we might not actually consult the map very often, but we'll know the direction we're heading and largely what to expect. In this Saturday Catch-up we ask if it's actually possible to have a roadmap through change.

In a profession that demands constant adaptation, a change manager's toolkit must be both broad and deep. Success hinges not just on structured plans, but on psychological insight, interpersonal skill, and the resilience to work through inevitable shifts.

Find key themes and insights as we think critically about our roles in change and consider implications for our work.

Change practitioners require a solid foundation and ongoing development: welcome to your brilliant career!

Whether it's due to back-to-work reflections, we've been hearing a lot about whether or not change practitioners are feeling valued.

As the world gets bigger we need to work harder to ensure we're reaching the right people and driving effective change implementation.

In this Saturday Catch-up: Effective Change Toolkit, some techniques that can help change managers and organisations implement outcomes.

Employee-centric change management means putting the needs, fears, and motivations at the centre of the change process.

In this Saturday Catch-up we look at your most pressing change challenges and priorities and introduce some key resources to help.

In this Saturday Catch-up we look back at some of our recent thinking on the ethics in change.