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  How to Support Change in Your Organization. No organization can afford to stand still. There are always new challenges to meet, and better ways of doing things. However, every change you need to make should be planned and implemented with care, otherwise it could end up doing more harm than good! That's where change management comes in. It's a structured approach that ensures changes are implemented thoroughly and smoothly – and have the desired impact. In this article, we explain how you can enact positive and productive change in your organization using four core principles of successful change management. What Is Change Management? Change management draws on theories from many disciplines, including psychology, behavioral science, engineering, and systems thinking. And there are many different models to choose from. For example,  Lewin's Change Management Model    splits the change process into three key stages known as "unfreeze-change-refreeze," while  Ko...

  Here are six ways to create psychological safety to re-engage and reassure today's anxious, disengaged and lonely workforce. Teams can be lonely places. People can feel vulnerable and exposed if they believe their teammates don’t support their ideas or appreciate their work. These interpersonal struggles intensify for remote workers who lack the support of a nodding ally across the table. Amid the increased importance of workplace equality and allyship and the growing loneliness and isolation among virtual teams, it’s never been more critical that leaders create psychological safety among their teams. Workers who feel that they can freely raise concerns, questions and ideas without repercussion are benefiting from psychological safety. Psychological safety pays off in increased creativity, trust and productivity among a  team  and is the single most important quality that determines a team’s success. However, it’s challe...

  These simple self-regulation practices are game-changers If you want to improve your capacity to  manage heated, emotionally charged conversations , start by mindfully taking care of your own emotional needs. It may sound counterintuitive to focus on yourself when you  need to gain alignment with others , but nothing could be further from the truth. It is crucial to be aware of your feelings and thoughts and the impact they have on others as the emotions that you are experiencing -- and exhibiting -- are transmissible to others. This is often referred to as "emotional contagion." When  strong emotions arise , there is the event or conversation that triggered the strong emotions (the stimulus) and then there is the response that follows (such as avoidance, anger, sadness, etc.) What dwells between stimulus and response is choice. You choose the way in which you will respond. This brief "window of choice" can be narrow and there are, of course, times when your emoti...

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  Change is inevitable. Sometimes it can be positive – business growth or a pay raise. At other times it can be painful – losing your job or a personal loss. Often the hardest changes to understand and adjust to are the ones that are unexpected and out of our control – a recession, a global pandemic, or a major disaster, for example. Changes of this magnitude can be difficult to come to terms with, but you'll often find that your experience of them can be made better or worse depending on your reaction and your attitude. So, in this article, we'll explore the different ways in which people tend to approach change, the reactions that you might have, and how to best cope with it. How People Cope With Change People tend to cope with change in one of two ways: Escape coping. Control coping. Escape coping  is based on avoidance. You take deliberate actions to avoid the difficulties of the change. For instance, you might deliberately miss training for a new working process, or show ...