Change Course

Mar 25 2024 90 ep. 18 mins 13

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Change Course is about how to successfully lead change. Join us to talk about the solutions to difficult change problems, how to navigate difficult changes and become better change leaders. We thrive at the intersection of change, power and culture. Learn how to influence and lead change within groups of people, connect, and spark the right conversations. This podcast is for you whether you're a seasoned change leader or just starting out! Change Course is led by Natalia Lobach, the founder and principal of Charthouse Advisory Services, and founder of Connected Change (TM).

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#88 No More Mr. Nice Guy

Mar 25 2024 11 mins

As a change leader you can't always be nice. Don't be mean! but being nice and trying to please everyone will undermine the very change you're trying to make successful. There is a difference between being nice and being kind... and I get into what that looks like from a leadership perspective and why its so hard.

#87 How to change a team culture

Mar 18 2024 19 mins

Full scale organizational culture change is incredibly hard to do successfully. But what if you're leading a team and you want to change just the culture on the team? Approaching things at a small scale and keeping in mind 3 important things will help you be successful. Want more amazing change & transformation content? Sign up for the Navigator Newsletter here: https://w

#86 How to prepare your team for change

Mar 11 2024 19 mins

Are you a leader who is planning a big change for your team, but doesn't know how to get your team ready for change? Often with big strategic changes or reorganization, we can't provide details before the change is announced. But if your team is completely in the dark, it makes responding to the change harder when it comes as a surprise. In this episode I talk about a recen

#85 Five ways to predict change

Mar 09 2024 16 mins

Have you ever wished for a crystal ball so you would know when change is coming? When we're trying to figure out how to be better at managing and leading change, an unexpected change can completely throw us off track. But what if we knew that change was coming? In this episode I walk through the 5 biggest indicators that change is coming that you should be looking for. Think of

#84 Navigating Emotions

Mar 09 2024 23 mins

Emotional responses are a fact of change -- but why do they happen? Context is really important and how people have to show up inside organizations, we are rarely in control of our organizational destiny and it makes change feel like it is happening to us instead of being in charge of it. This episode covers the 4 fear responses and what they look like inside the organizational env

#83 A break and a revelation

Mar 09 2024 14 mins

Change is happening all the time, and guess what? It happened to me. Well that's not the whole story, but I've taken a break after some time away and I have to tell you that this has been the best decision, but not for the reasons you may think... I've been spending the past few months testing out Connected Change and I have some incredible things to share with you that

#82 Sometimes, you don't need a training plan

Sep 19 2023 18 mins

Traditional Change Management approaches focus on two key things... communications and training. But what if your change isn't a giant implementation requiring thousands of people to attend training sessions? What if your change is simpler than that? Well, this might get change traditionalists a little upset, but sometimes you don't need a training plan at all! In this po

#81 Get into the groove

Sep 11 2023 16 mins

Going "back to school" can mean a whole bunch of different things, but certainly for those of us who have school-aged children, and for those of us who work as educators, we're experiencing a massive shift from "summer schedule" to the "regular schedule". For those of you who are not currently in the back to school routine, the shift certainly has

#80 So what if it was easy?

Sep 04 2023 7 mins

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you! We hope that you enjoy them! We're back in this bonus episode with Stephanie J. Marshall, alignment coach, with a short, but

#79 So what about resistance?

Aug 29 2023 10 mins

Summer means special episodes at the Change Course Podcast! We're running some selected episodes from our sister series, Change: The Conversation. These were originally run as a video series, but we've transformed them into podcasts just for you! We hope that you enjoy them! In this episode of Change: The Conversation we continue our conversation with Stephanie J. Marshall.