For Change Leaders | Change in Practice

Heavy change can trigger our inner critic

by Vicky Emery | Aug 22, 2022 | Conversation starter, For Change Leaders

Heavy change can trigger our inner critic – taming it is a useful skill! By inner critic, I mean the negative self-talk that tells us how we should have done something, asks If we know what we are doing, compares us unfavourably to others and generally takes up real...

Using neuro science for a better-working brain

by Vicky Emery | Jul 15, 2022 | Conversation starter, For Change Leaders

I’ve been learning how to paint with watercolours for nearly a year and here is the first painting (above) that I have framed and have in my house. It’s a misty lakeside – it’s not photorealism, it’s the interpretation of a scene. And...

What is it with ‘worthiness’?

by Vicky Emery | May 24, 2022 | Conversation starter, For Change Leaders, For Practitioners, For Team Members, Webinar

I thought I’d write about this sensitive topic as it comes up a lot in the conversations I have with Managers and Sponsors as well as Change Managers and mid-level managers. Whether it is a new role people are contemplating or a great feedback about a recent...

Changing how we change – in real life

by Vicky Emery | Apr 5, 2022 | Conversation starter, For Change Leaders, For Practitioners

Change is not always pretty and it is rarely cheap or easy = it takes investment of time, resources, thinking, listening, planning and unplanning, agile maneuvering, trial and error and reinforcing. Redoing things over and over and getting nowhere is frustrating,...

Time to change how we change

by Vicky Emery | Mar 9, 2022 | Conversation starter, For Change Leaders, For Practitioners

I’ve been working in Change Management for over 25+ years – I love this field! I enjoy the wild ride that comes with leading and landing change – as a leader myself and working with organisations and individuals to get to grips with the real nature...

How to talk with a team member who isn’t meeting their goals – even in a pandemic

by Vicky Emery | Nov 15, 2021 | Building Enterprise Change Capability, For Change Leaders

I forget that not everyone is out of lockdown, for all sorts of reasons. In talking over the biggest issues of the last few weeks with senior leaders to team leaders, I thought it would be navigating the different return dates and rules but it isn’t. There is one...