Five Good Ideas for making organizational change work

About this episode

Claire Forster discusses strategies for making meaningful and sustainable organizational change.

In this session, non-profit consultant Claire Forster discussed how to make meaningful and sustainable change in your organization. How do you integrate a new function or program into your current structure? How do you communicate with your teams to ensure that the change is not disruptive or disengaging? What implications are there for the existing teams and culture and how do you manage that? What issues do you need to anticipate and account for? Her five good ideas: Start with the end in mind Communicate what it isn’t Understand that employees and stakeholders have the answers Be opportunistic and leverage change to reinforce culture It’s not over when you think it is For Claire's full bio and resources, visit the session page.

People in this episode

Guest: Claire Forster

Topics covered

• organizational change
• non-profit consulting
• communication
• team management
• culture reinforcement

Keywords

• organizational change
• non-profit
• communication
• team culture
• sustainable change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Maytree Foundation

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