Change management
Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change (via HBR)
- Engage your informal change influencers
- Find ways to let those impacted by the change have a hand in it
- See if you can bundle some other changes on your list that always seem to have lower priority
- Make a series of micro-changes
- Demonstrate that you are modeling the change
- Establish a neutral change facilitator
Stress management
The Hidden Toll of Microstress (via HBR)
There’s a lot to this article to unpack. Our bodies and minds do fairly well when dealing with major stressors that it’s easy to draw a red circle around. However, with our ever interconnected world, we have minor tests of this system that accumulate, yet don’t trigger the protective systems, leaving us on the brink of burnout.