Timothy Grayson

Joined: November 12, 2022
Articles: 190

Communications, Practice

Make Your Change Story Soar

The story of change is storytelling about change.

No. 3 in a series about Storytelling This series is dedicated to how change stories make change (management) more successful. This post is about how to make your change story particularly strong. In the future, we’ll dig deeper into…...

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Timothy Grayson
May 24, 2023

Communications, Overcoming Resistance, Practice

Get reluctant people to pay attention to change communications

Every change wants impacted people to pay attention. But with so many competing messages, sometimes they all get ignored

Every change leader and change manager struggles with stakeholders not paying attention to change communications.[1] It is a problem no matter how you slice it. Oh, you get the point. Let’s first explore how and why communications get…

Timothy Grayson
May 17, 2023

Overcoming Resistance, Practice, Theory

Why do people resist change?

Resistance and objection to change can have many simple and complex reasons

Resistance to organizational change is what makes change managers and change leaders necessary. For all intents and purposes, dealing with resistance is the essence of the job. That job might be easier if more people were up front…...

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Timothy Grayson
May 10, 2023

Communications, Practice, Tools

Heat Maps: The Change Manager’s Powerful Little Secret

A scatterplot heat map will typically have three dimensions. The base dimensions (x and y) are primary for showing relationships among entities. The third dimension will use colour and relative size to indicate some magnitude typically.

Heat maps are graphic representations of information that use color-coding and relative size to display data values. They are commonly used to visualize and analyze large data sets but can be an indispensable part of the change manager’s arsenal…

Communications, Overcoming Resistance, Sponsorship

Sponsor Engagement: THE no. 1 success differentiator

Sponsor engagement is critical to driving successful organizational change. Yet it is typically overlooked or—worse—misguidedly expected to just happen. Sponsors are key stakeholders with the authority, influence, and resources to support and enable change initiatives. But their support and value…

Timothy Grayson
April 18, 2023

Communications, Overcoming Resistance, Practice

Storytelling Makes a Change Powerful

No. 2 in a series about Stories and Storytelling Storytelling makes the world go round. At its simplest, a story is a coherent set of events that move the listener (reader/viewer) from A to B. A very little less simply,…

Timothy Grayson
April 14, 2023

Communications, Practice, Theory

5 Rules of Effective Change Communication

Communication sleight-of-hand in magic, mentalism, or politics owes its success to being aligned with psychological principles.

These are not my only rules for effective communication with stakeholders. Communications experts will have others and may suggest these are unimportant. They’re wrong, probably because they don’t understand how people think. For magicians, con artists, psychics, and mentalists…...

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Timothy Grayson
April 2, 2023

Overcoming Resistance, Theory, Useful

Change Fatigue: what is it really?

Change fatigue is neither an acceptance nor a rejection of change, but is the state of being overwhelmed and exhausted by the amount of change going on and unable to absorb any more.

No. 1 in an exploration of change fatigue Change fatigue and change saturation, and dealing with them is a Frequently Asked Question—of Google, anyway. Apparently, a lot of people leading or managing change want to fix what they’ve diagnosed…...

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Timothy Grayson
April 2, 2023

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