Saturday Catch-Up: Change management side-effects

Kerrie Smit
Apr 13, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Sep 26

Change management serves a wonderful core purpose in your organisation and in your life. But in dealing with change in a structured, managed way, you also reap the rewards that aren't always directly attributable to the change effort. In this Saturday catch-up we look at the positive side-effects of change management.

First published on 28 December 2023, Dealing with Disappointment in Constant Change and Transformation Environments we highlight how change environments demand resilience of us. Along the journey of change, it is common to encounter setbacks and experience disappointment. We recommend cultivating your resilience and adopting a proactive mindset. This way you can start to navigate disappointment and emerge stronger on the path to positive change. We explore effective strategies for dealing with disappointment in change and transformation environments.
So you're thinking of investing in coaching. Is it worth the cost? Published 13 February 2024 and now the subject of an e-booklet you can download from our home page. Change situations can have us examining our abilities to cope, whether we're in a position to influence the change, or whether it's just happening to us. The need to change can create a positive motivation that leads you to bigger and better things. Getting coaching to support you can be an amazing experience that opens doors to insights you never would have had without that elbow in the ribs from change.
Next is a longer look at Content vs Process: Where are we at in Change Management? from 18 January 2024. Why is this a positive side-effect of change? Working in change management for around three decades has exposed me to many styles and theories: Lean Business, Agile, Human-Centred Design, Journey Mapping, Value Chain mapping, Operating Model, Capability Maturity modelling and so on. Change often leads us to search out new ways of working and to discern a way forward based on what best practice tells us.
While a core requirement of effective change managers, being able to Craft successful change communications isn't necessarily a natural ability. Change environments can affect two people standing side by side very differently depending on their individual circumstances. In this blog from 23 January 2024, we examine how we can keep focussing on and improving the key area of cross-over between change management and communications: change communications.
On a lighter note in The life-changing value of hard work we learn that sometimes the harder experiences create memories. When we're called on to do something we don't necessarily want to do - like help a friend with their DIY building project - it can be difficult to marshall up the effort. The same is true of change. But in doing the hard things, we are participants in our own lives, we open up new opportunities that didn't exist before and we learn and grow. Published 19 January 2024.