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In this episode of Change: The Conversation we are back with Chris Carter, a change consultant and the founder and principal of orgshift solutions. Chris and I are back, to talk about how strategic planning used to be and how this will change in the future. Chris is working on the cutting edge of strategic planning, and how we are using digital tools to rethink this process, make it more inclusive and part of a journey. After all, it is so much more effective if we can bring together more people, have broader participation and as a result, better implementation, ownership and accountability. We talk about how the success of strategy is in the execution and how digital facilitation is the starting point that makes this so much more powerful. Chris provides his key advice for leaders on how they can rethink strategic planning facilitation and how digital is a means for positive change. More about Chris: Chris is an experienced business and IT management consultant with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of change, especially when enabled by technology. Leading with a business-first perspective, Chris has consulted to both public and private sector organizations: facilitating strategic direction, designing appropriate and flexible organizational structures and processes, documenting business and system requirements, creating road maps and action plans, preparing change program business cases, assessing outsourcing strategies, implementing benefit realization plans and systems, and providing program management support and leadership to achieve desired business outcomes. Chris is the founder and principal of orgshift solutions, a leading boutique consultancy focused on helping clients from all sectors – non-profit, private and public sector – design and deliver strategic and operational decision-making, value-driven transformation programs, and breakthrough group collaboration performance. Follow Chris at: Website | LinkedIn In this episode of Change: The Conversation we are speaking with Chris Carter, a change consultant and the founder and principal of orgshift solutions. Chris and I have worked together on several occasions, and both have a deep and abiding passion for change! Chris talks through his experience building a change facilitation practice and his deep experience in this field. We talk about the power and benefits of using digital to enhance change facilitation, something that Chris has exceptional experience with. Chris shares a story about one of his clients and how group facilitation was the key tool that helped this client come to terms with their challenges and help them chart a new course for the future. More about Chris: Chris is an experienced business and IT management consultant with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of change, especially when enabled by technology. Leading with a business-first perspective, Chris has consulted to both public and private sector organizations: facilitating strategic direction, designing appropriate and flexible organizational structures and processes, documenting business and system requirements, creating road maps and action plans, preparing change program business cases, assessing outsourcing strategies, implementing benefit realization plans and systems, and providing program management support and leadership to achieve desired business outcomes. Chris is the founder and principal of orgshift solutions, a leading boutique consultancy focused on heliping clients from all sectors – non-profit, private and public sector – design and deliver strategic and operational decision-making, value-driven transformation programs, and breakthrough group collaboration performance. Follow Chris at: Website | LinkedIn In this episode of Change: The Conversation we continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall. Resistance is the bane of the change manager's existence! So what about resistance? We're back in this episode to continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall, alignment coach, on the power and purpose of resistance in personal change. Her approach? Resistance is where the GOOD stuff is. Resistance comes from our assumptions about change and how we are going to feel. Steph talks about how she approaches resistance and works through it with her clients, and walks through her approach. Managing resistance within ourselves is the key to leading change successfully and is an essential journey for every change leader. Learn to expect resistance, wrestle with it and excavate it for yourself, and you'll become a much stronger leader. Working through and dealing with emotions is one of the thorniest areas of change both personal and professional and we talk about the conflict between logic and emotion and how to address it. More about Stephanie: Stephanie is a Toronto-based alignment coach and mindset coach, speaker, and podcaster. She helps women who feel stuck get out of their own way so that they can figure out what they're capable of and start having real fun. She has coached people from all over the world, from artists to executives, and from all stages of life. As co-founder of Kickstartology Coaching she created the Alignment Coaching Framework and the Kickstartology Alignment Coaching Program, rooted in neuroscience, cognitive and behavioural psychology, and research in coaching as well as behavioural change. Her clients get phenomenal results. Stephanie started her career working in Media and has an MBA, but so do a lot of people. She dabbles in stand-up comedy and knows her dog is the best. Follow Stephanie at: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn In this episode of Change: The Conversation we continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall. So, where the heck are we going? Change is the destination. We're back with Stephanie J. Marshall, alignment coach, to talk about the importance of vision. Stephanie breaks down the vision process and how she helps clients build a compelling vision and what makes it impactful and successful. Developing a personal vision is just the beginning, and Stephanie talks about the key component that is absolutely critical before any change can really happen. We get into why using creativity and imagination conflicts in your brain with the tactical planning, and how Steph uses the first law of alignment: spend more time thinking about what we want than what we don't want. Stephanie mentioned the cool study on vision. There is more detail in this book:  More about Stephanie: Stephanie is a Toronto-based alignment coach and mindset coach, speaker, and podcaster. She helps women who feel stuck get out of their own way so that they can figure out what they're capable of and start having real fun. She has coached people from all over the world, from artists to executives, and from all stages of life. As co-founder of Kickstartology Coaching she created the Alignment Coaching Framework and the Kickstartology Alignment Coaching Program, rooted in neuroscience, cognitive and behavioural psychology, and research in coaching as well as behavioural change. Her clients get phenomenal results. Stephanie started her career working in Media and has an MBA, but so do a lot of people. She dabbles in stand-up comedy and knows her dog is the best. Follow Stephanie at: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn In this episode of Change: The Conversation I have the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie J. Marshall. I’m a client of Stephanie’s and a huge fan of the alignment framework, so this conversation is one for the ages. We talk about the intersection of personal and organizational change and what this all means. So what is an alignment coach? In this episode Stephanie J. Marshall of Kickstartology introduces us to the wonderful world of alignment coaching and how it relates to personal change. Stephanie is in the business of coaching leaders through change and helping them effectively lead their teams. We talk about how an amazing transformation always starts with you, and how we can approach change from a personal perspective. We talk about why resistance and denial are normal reactions to change and how to get through them. Then, we get into who is most surprised by the emotional reactions to change. Stephanie breaks down how small shifts lead to lasting transformation and success in any change and how alignment is at the center of it all. More about Stephanie: Stephanie is a Toronto-based alignment coach and mindset coach, speaker, and podcaster. She helps women who feel stuck get out of their own way so that they can figure out what they're capable of and start having real fun. She has coached people from all over the world, from artists to executives, and from all stages of life. As co-founder of Kickstartology Coaching she created the Alignment Coaching Framework and the Kickstartology Alignment Coaching Program, rooted in neuroscience, cognitive and behavioural psychology, and research in coaching as well as behavioural change. Her clients get phenomenal results. Stephanie started her career working in Media and has an MBA, but so do a lot of people. She dabbles in stand-up comedy and knows her dog is the best. Follow Stephanie at: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn Episode 2 of Change the Conversation is a continuation of our last conversation with Melissa Kaan. Melissa has a wealth of leadership experience, working in various parts of the Canadian healthcare System. In this conversation we build upon the topics in last week’s episode and discuss what it takes to be a change leader in a changing world! Melissa shares her insight and advice on how you can be a stronger change leader and the secrets that led to her success. I learned a lot from Melissa and I know you will too! More about Melissa: Melissa Kaan is a strategist with 17 years of healthcare experience in public, private, and nonprofit sectors. After being let go during an en-masse layoff from her government job of nine and a half years, Melissa found herself navigating a significant life change unexpectedly. With that came new opportunities that led to more change including work as a consultant in the first year of the COVID pandemic. She has a Bachelor of Science in Medical Radiation Sciences from the University of Toronto and an MBA specializing health industry management and strategy from the Schulich School of Business. She lives in Toronto with her partner and two teenaged children who continue to bring change into her life. Follow Melissa: LinkedIn We’re opening this season with our first guest, Melissa Kaan. Melissa has a wealth of leadership experience, working in various parts of the Canadian healthcare System. You’re going to love this conversation as Melissa brings her leadership insights in transformational change to the table. She talks about what its like to be brought into a project mid-change, the multiple challenges she faced, and how she overcame them. More about Melissa: Melissa Kaan is a strategist with 17 years of healthcare experience in public, private, and nonprofit sectors. After being let go during an en-masse layoff from her government job of nine and a half years, Melissa found herself navigating a significant life change unexpectedly. With that came new opportunities that led to more change including work as a consultant in the first year of the COVID pandemic. She has a Bachelor of Science in Medical Radiation Sciences from the University of Toronto and an MBA specializing health industry management and strategy from the Schulich School of Business. She lives in Toronto with her partner and two teenaged children who continue to bring change into her life. Follow Melissa: LinkedIn Change: The Conversation - Episode 8 - Practical advice for leading change in a COVID-19 world3/9/2021
In this episode, Natalia is back with Jennifer Egelnick, a Strategic Change and Transformation professional. We discuss the impact of change fatigue from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to be successful as a change professional in delivery and advisory in the current climate. We break down advice for change management professionals and what leadership should be thinking about. Core components of our advice include the power of empathy and one-on-one conversations and the value of repeated and constant communications. We also talk about one (funny, but dark) silver lining of working from home in a global pandemic, and the importance of boundaries and clear communication with sponsors and stakeholders about constraints and impact. In this episode, Natalia is joined by Jennifer Egelnick, a change management professional working in strategic change and transformation. We talk about the impact of COVID-19 on change management and change execution in organizations. Change fatigue and burnout are part of the environment of change in 2020 and 2021 - and we talk about strategies on how to be a successful change leader in this context. Typically when we talk about change fatigue, we mean that people are getting tired of the change we are leading, it is typically the lowest point in a change curve. But, what can we do in an environment when the fatigue isn't something that you can control? When we filmed this, it was the end of December, 2020, after another lockdown had been announced in our region and schools were closed. Within the context of a public health crisis, how does the external context that we can't control affect our ability to make change happen? We discuss the burdens that people are carrying with them, the "backpack of bricks" and the role of empathy and advocacy in how to work through this difficult period when we are still expected to deliver change. Change: The Conversation - Episode 6 - The power of storytelling in change management sustainability2/9/2021
In the third episode of the series on embedded change and change momentum, Natalia and Melanie McLagan break down the impact of storytelling in developing strong change momentum. Change Management is more than just top-down planning and execution -- connecting with people requires storytelling and making change meaningful and relatable for the people affected. What makes a good story for change is that it is based on the experiences of people involved. We describe how storytelling is a key tool for change champions and helps people relate to the change. We tell a few stories from the trenches about how we've encountered, developed and used stories as a powerful tool to bring about change. We talk about how compelling, actionable and relatable stories are the key to creating a desire for change and momentum towards the future state. |
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