Change Communicator's Toolbox

Okay, we know change is difficult and that many organizational change programs fail, but let’s be straight here: leaders who don’t prioritize and properly value employee communication deserve to fail.

Countless studies over the years have shown that significant organizational change success is elusive, difficult to achieve, and hard to sustain over the long term—and it’s getting even harder.

The rate of change in organizations is rising rapidly. But two critical factors are making change adoption harder than ever: employee change fatigue and decreasing support for more transformation initiatives.

Your organization's ability to adapt to the evolving needs of your customers, dynamic moves by your competitors, and rising expectations from employees has become critical in staying ahead.

No, not that F-word—I’m talking about feelings. How we feel is a huge part of how we handle change. And, as we are all experiencing, change is uncertain, it’s everywhere and it’s speeding up.

The scale of the challenge was outlined last year when Gartner reported: “the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes in the past 12 months alone, and they are getting fatigued. Willingness to support organizational change collapsed from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.”