Next Level Change Success - #4 - Season 1 - Change Overload

In this episode I explore the concept of Change overload in organisations.

In this Episode, Therese covers the ultimate organisational change question – how do you know when you are hitting change overload in your organisation? When is there just too much change taking place where it is impacting your people?

Therese discusses the signs in your organisation where you may be hitting your change capacity and what levers decision makers have in their grasp to better manage the capacity at an Enterprise Change level.

2:40 – Setting the scene for this year and how many are grappling with the ‘new normal’ and the impact of our seasons.

3:45 – We discuss the reality of Cognitive overload and what change practitioners need to consider with this

4:20 – The need to simplify and make Change in organisations easy to engage with.

6:00 – We cover some of the indicators of change overload in organisations.

6:58 – Do your people indicators need to be revisited to reflect ‘pandemic’ ways of working?

9:15 – Performance and the relationship with change overload

10:36 – What can decision makers/Executives do about change overload.

11:54 – Evidence has shown you can continuously improve however there are principles that need to be applied and ad hoc, ‘scattergun’ change will not be as effective if not planned well.

16:02 – Consideration of the Change ecosystem is critical to set you up for success.

References

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