Tools Create a Communications Plan to Navigate the Different Phases of Change We’ve created a simple worksheet, inspired by William Bridges’ “4 P’s”, to discuss change with your team
Tools How to Adapt Performance Review Season for 2021 This isn’t the time for a complete overhaul—instead, hold more frequent 1:1s focused on coping with change, and making progress towards revised goals
Tools Are You Measuring Change at the Right Organizational Layer? Change can be tough to pinpoint. It’s constant, but its effects can appear instantaneously, take time to become evident, or…
Tools How to Bring Background Conversations to the Foreground Every organization has hidden conversations—but if you can’t talk about an issue, or if you don’t know an issue even exists in the first place, you can’t address it.
Tools How to Tell the Story of Change Before people accept a solution, they have to agree there’s a problem. Telling a story—and illustrating their part to play—can make transformation easier
Tools A Simple Diagram to Determine, “Should This Be a Meeting?” Reduce workload and bring better work-life balance by evaluating what decisions require meetings and what can be resolved by email
Tools Finding Your Way on the Change Journey A “change map” provides much needed perspective in the middle of a change process
Tools Hacking The Eisenhower Matrix As you weigh the urgent and the important in order to prioritize your week or your team’s backlog, you may need new methods to force decision-making and focus
Tools Resources for Building Anti-Racist Organizations Creating a more just workplace (and society) can feel overwhelming, but these tools can serve as a first step
Tools How to Layoff an Employee Gracefully: Special Considerations for Remote Teams With more people than ever working from home, layoffs require even more care and planning