The concept of Power – positional vs personal power has been a hot topic recently in Change2020’s coaching sessions as the hybrid working model has become the new norm and our sense of uncertainty prevails. Remote working has the potential to present challenges to...
Articles by Maree Gardner
A Psychologically Safe Workplace: Why you need it – and how to get it
In the final part of our series on mental health at work, we examine the importance of ensuring and creating a psychologically safe workplace. We have previously emphasised that where a culture promotes psychological safety, where it is ‘safe’ to voice an opinion,...
Post Covid Change Management Still Needs to Address Human Hardwiring
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) have recently released an analysis promoting the need to reinvent the “change management playbook” in a post Covid-19 world. [1] We agree that in a world where change is happening so rapidly, and with increasing complexity, that...
Change Management – Why it is a Must Have, Not a Nice to Have
As change management practitioners, we are on occasion, still on the receiving end of statements from business leaders that go something like: “We don’t need change management - we communicate regularly with our people and they know about the changes we are making.”...
Remote Working Tip #15
The single biggest mistake we make when trying to gather — whether physically or virtually — is assuming we already know its purpose. Even in our physically-together-normal-circumstances-gatherings, we tend to assume the purpose is obvious. In these COVID-19 times, as...
Remote Working Tip #14
Good Stress Stressful situations can actually push us to achieve amazing things; take time to reflect on what you have achieved while feeling stressed. When chatting (Skyping; Teaming; or Zooming) with your teams, ask each person what they have achieved.
Remote Working Tip #13
Learning Cultures are often differentiators for organisations; people make decisions to join / stay if they know you will invest in their skills and capability. Investing in your people does not need to slow down or worse still, cease, because of remote working; you...
Remote Working Tip #12
Remote Working Tip No 12 [RWT#12] Routines allow you to create structure and predictability in your life. They allow you to feel safe. Without routines, there would be too much uncertainty in life and everyday functioning would slow down. Control what you can control....