Emotions drive change. If employees are excited and optimistic, they’re going to help you drive your initiatives forward. Likewise, if they’re scared, frustrated, or anxious they will not be quite as responsive.
#Change_TheConversation#ManagingChange#ChangeLeadership
When you don’t take the time to ready your organization for change, here’s what happens:
Buy-in for the change is overestimated by leaders
Disruption is underestimated, and
Timelines collapse
Best chance for success is seeing the cracks before they widen.
#changereadiness
Amazon's laying off another 16,000 people this week. No one prepares the management team for this part of the job.
What we see in change readiness work is that even well-intentioned leaders freeze in these moments. Not because they don’t care, but because they’ve never been...
The managers delivering those conversations this week are carrying something most leadership development completely ignores, the weight of leading people through change they didn’t choose and can’t control. That’s the gap that breaks transformation efforts. Not bad strategy.
I’m noticing Ai isn’t just changing the way we work, it’s also changing our vernacular.
We’re now using these words more:
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What else are you hearing?
Leaders who can’t self-regulate under pressure don’t just struggle, they tank your EBITDA.
If you’re rolling out a reorg, turnaround, tech shift, or acquisition in 2026, your leaders need more than templates and talking points. They need emotional foresight and strategy.
VP of Sales watching the CEO rollout a ‘brilliant’ change initiative for the commercial team, that he’s just now hearing about. No strategy. No alignment. Just vibes.
@EastSideStaff They really like their policies. LOL.
So, the assessment I give assesses change personalities. How we all approach change is inherent, with one of three approaches. They usually fall in the Conserver category.
@EastSideStaff They’re not happy about making changes, unless they have a really compelling reason to do so. It’s funny because now I see it, play out when in HR circles.
@EastSideStaff It’s shown that there’s a personality type that’s attracted to HR.
As far as the self-worth piece, I think that may just be coincidental, based on their leader.