Leading Through Organizational Change

Evolving Your Workplace

This episode of "Evolving Your Workplace: After Hours" features hosts Rob Swymer and Carol Schultz discussing best practices and challenges involved with leading through organizational changes. The conversation gets rolling with a discussion on how constant transformation is a usual part of life in the modern business world, such as when you must adjust to new leadership. Rob emphasizes that consistent communication is needed from leaders as he opens up about his personal experience merging vastly different company cultures.

As the conversation continues, Carol highlights the importance of teaching adaptability and resilience to employees, especially if uncertainty is felt after events like acquisitions or layoffs. Rob urges leaders, and companies as a whole, to clarify what resilience means for their teams and to model their preferred behaviors. Both hosts advocate for collaboration and vulnerability in difficult times.

Ultimately, both hosts agree that there are three essential factors in effective change leadership: trust, communication, and alignment. The two also share stories about the necessity of personal responsibility in leadership as well as issues with promoting leaders that haven’t received proper training. The episode closes with a reminder that having a growth mindset and embracing transformation can help teams and leaders not just survive, but thrive.

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