If there’s one thing that irks me as much as the ‘change is just comms and training’ mantra, it’s this: It’s only a small tech or process change, it won’t really impact people. STOP! Change practitioners - you can stop this organisational myth before it grows its own post code! Almost every change in an organisation impacts people. If they need to DO SOMETHING differently, THINK differently or BEHAVE differently, it’s a PEOPLE change. And for PEOPLE-related changes, a change.

‘𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥’....

Are you about to set up an Enterprise Change Management Office (ECMO) in your organisation? Or perhaps you have been tasked with...

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