Category Thrust

Overcoming Resistance, Practice, Preparation & Management, Theory

Winners and Losers: Changing Perceptions of Change Risk

Winners and losers in changes can change over time as can their (self-)perception of their risk. That shapes success or failure.

Introduction Organizational change, with grand promises of innovation, growth, and increased efficiency, often fails to deliver the desired outcomes. That’s just fact. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, though, certain individuals and groups are winners. Others maybe not so much.…...

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Timothy Grayson
August 2, 2023

Communications, Preparation & Management

Have and Communicate a Clear Change Strategy

It is essential to have and communicate a change strategy

If you opt not to have a change strategy, prepare to fail. I’ll presume you want to succeed and so already have a strategy. (This post is not about creating one; it’s about why to have one and how…...

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Timothy Grayson
July 5, 2023

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

Moves, Plays, Sponsorship, Theory

Succeed at Bottom-up Change Without Sponsors… LOL!

Sponsor management is, for my money, the single-most important part of change leadership. Maybe not for change management, which is mostly focused on doing all the necessary and right things, but definitely for the leadership of change. Effective sponsors can…...

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Timothy Grayson
March 16, 2023

Sponsorship, Tools, Useful

One genogram to exceptional sponsor management

Lately, people I have been working and corresponding with about change management have been asking about genogram. My understanding of genograms comes from when my father tried to diagram our family tree. To be sure, genograms are truly for tracking…...

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Timothy Grayson
February 28, 2023

Winners and Losers: Changing Perceptions of Change Risk

Have and Communicate a Clear Change Strategy

Sponsor Engagement: THE no. 1 success differentiator

Succeed at Bottom-up Change Without Sponsors… LOL!

One genogram to exceptional sponsor management

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