Christophe BodinAdvising investment firms, individuals and giving back to the Leaders community, Next Chapter MC LLC · 35 successful years leading GTM team, now giving back through podcasts, videocasts, and 1o1 coaching as well advising investment firms

My best management tool. Part 4/6 #podcast #managementwisdom #leadershiptrainingformanagers

23 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of his "My Best Management Tool" series, Christophe Bodin explains how to manage massive organizational change by using the change‑curve model. He stresses that thousands of employees will progress through the curve at different speeds and may move back and forth. To surface where individuals are, Bodin recommends an anonymous Post‑it exercise where participants place a note on the curve indicating their perceived stage. He highlights the inevitable "first it gets worse before it gets better" phase, the high pressure it creates, and the need for managers to actively support people as they navigate these fluctuations.

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Part 4, why does it matter, is that think this is for one person. When you manage a big change where there's multiple thousands of people potentially impacted, not everybody's going at the same pace, right? But nobody is going to go from here to there straight. Everybody's going to go through the curve. So, as you think about the change, think about everybody and where they are in the curve. I used to do an exercise where people are putting Post-it on where they think they are on the curve. Of course, anonymous. And it's very, very interesting because people are all along the curve. Yes, it goes here. The boss is going to be mad at you because you did the change because you want to be here. But first, it gets worse before it gets better. It's unavoidable. You're going to be under high pressure. But it's to get there. You want to get to that better stage, right? And as I said earlier, don't forget, people are going back and forth in the curve. How do we help them going through the curve?