Why Change Fails: Heather Smith and Dr. Rachel on the Change Psychology Leaders Often Miss

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink…

However, you can salt its oats.”

Back when we were making widgets on assembly lines for time, top-down directives made sense. At that time, in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, there was a greater divide between bosses and employees in terms of education, access to information, autonomy, and choice. Organizations were structured top-down. Leaders could force changes.

Not today, at least not in most fields. Today, successful change requires something different. The problem is that most people running change initiatives are taught the old way, thus most change efforts fail to reach their full potential.

I joined Heather Smith, founder and CEO of Talent Elevated, to scratch the surface on what modern change management means. Talent Elevated is a boutique strategic advisory firm that builds and protects high-performance cultures during periods of growth, transition, and change.

In this episode, we unpack why communicating change effectively is one of the hardest things leaders have to do, and how to guide your people through organizational change more successfully.  Below is a teaser. Click here for the full episode.