Change Management Storytelling

Desired Change rarely takes place by only presenting consequences of not changing or benefits of changing. Effective Change Management Storytelling requires another important element. Robert Cialdini’s book Pre-Suasion informs that as a rule, communications that present the most frightening consequences of poor health habits work better than milder messages or messages that present the positive consequences of good habits. The more prominent…

In Change Management Storytelling talking about how is the current situation is very important. Today, whilst working on Change Management Storytelling Project  I was having a casual conversation with some of the leaders to gain some insights on the project. During this conversation, one of the leader asked me ” why are you so fussed about knowing how are we working now?…

Why desired change behaviours should never be incentivised? Last week I was invited to speak on Storytelling for Change at a Learning Festival of an Organisation. I was surprised to notice that the employees upon attending a speaking session were allowed to get a stamp on their Learning Passports and once they had certain numbers of stamps they could win prizes like…

Telling someone to change is one thing and teaching them how to change is another. At the end of a my Storytelling Workshops there are two types of inner dialogues that take place. My inner dialogue is,”I hope the participants change the way they communicate” and participant’s inner dialogue is “this time I am really going to change” My inner dialogue…

Change is accepted when you are emotionally invested in it For anyone who is a parent, having a child was perhaps one of the biggest change you have experienced. Yet, we love our children, look after them, want the best for them and never ever feel the lack of motivation to change ourselves for their best. The same is not true for…

Change Management Storytelling and why how we position it matters. In my recent work in Change Management Storytelling I have noticed that most leaders start talking about change like this. ” I am really sorry that we are changing the way we do ticketing” ” I am sorry we have to put you through yet another change ” ” The new change…

A great example of Change Management Storytelling Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO is asked about Change in an interview with Doug McMillon Walmart President and CEO. What we are use to is a response that sounds something like this ” Change is hard, you have employees to please, investors to please and the pace of the change is just unmanageable ”…

Change Management Storytelling can derail due to the use of word Change  I am working with a group of Healthcare Practitioners on Change Management Storytelling The Change is, we will now work with new hospitals in our cluster and share resources. Almost, each one of them is starting the Change Narrative with the saying something like this We know Change is hard…

Change Management Storytelling is about Changing Stories of individuals. Change management is defined like this –  It is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes. I personally do not agree with this definition because the conventional approach to change management does not take in to account…

Change Management needs more than a knowledge dump. This is about that little insight I had in managing a successful Change Management Storytelling Programme and for anyone who is about to manage change here is my insight for you. A typical change project is managed like this, you put together a pretty power point filled with slides  and you start the “Change…