Organizational change management can make or break an organization regardless of size.

According to McKinsey & Company 70% of all change initiatives fail because we’re creatures of habit and biologically hardwired to stick with what’s worked for us in the past. It’s not helpful when battling change going into the future, like a pandemic, shifting markets, supply chain challenges and a kitchen sink of other problems.

How do you keep things from going down the drain?

My next guest, organizational change management expert Erika Andersen says we need to embrace the very things we’re wired to avoid and she’ll also explain how.

* Why organizational change management is hard for most people

* 3 Assumptions that initially wire us to resist change

* Why management resists change

* Why leaders need to model change for it to succeed

* 4 Things necessary to help employees through organizational change

* Best way to provide management support for organizational change

* How organizational change management happens on 3 levels

* The magical thinking that stymies organization change management

* And MUCH more.

Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus International, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that focuses on leader readiness.

For over three decades, she’s served as a consultant and advisor to top executives at today’s leading organizations, including Amazon, Spotify, Charter/Spectrum, and the Yale School of Public Health.

She’s the author of four bestselling books, including Growing Great Employees and Be Bad First; is a popular leadership blogger at Forbes.com; and is the host of The Proteus Leader Show, a business and leadership podcast globally ranked in the top 10%. Her newest book is Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; October 26, 2021).

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