Coaching people through organizational change
I met Executive Coach, Sue Noble, at a Change Management Institute event in the heady days before the pandemic. We quickly realised the amazing synergies between the delivery of business change and coaching. A chance conversation became 'Coaching People Through Organizational Change: tools to improve wellbeing, productivity and resilience during business transformation'.
Granted, there are many very good books about organisational change and coaching as separate disciplines. The only book available in the UK back in 2020, which even attempted to fuse the two topics is not aimed at change practitioners and instead focuses on coaching to transform performance rather than as a driver for successful organisational change.
Our book is unique in other ways! It is the only coaching book to introduce the new and globally validated psychometric tool Emergenetics®. Emergenetics explores thinking and behavioural preferences, which we believe change practitioners can explore it to understand the way people process change and the behaviours they display.
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What is the book about?
The book is structured around five commonplace change challenges:
1. Post-Acquisition (my passion project!) - let me show you how early focus on integration saves money and reduces operational risk.
2. Resistance to change - an oldie but a goodie and ripe for some coaching tips and tricks.
3. Business transformation and ambiguity - learning to live with VUCA.
4. Stakeholder Engagement - why the project or change manager should not battle this alone.
5. Making change stick - how to deliver and embed change that persists months and years later.
Each challenge follows a similar format - I set out the nature of the challenge and impart my tips and models from a change delivery perspective.
Sue then follows with practical solutions from the coaching toolkit - this is the book's secret sauce. Every change practitioner should have these coaching tools and models in their back pocket. No coaching qualification required, though many change practitioners have gone down that route.
It is a highly visual book with solutions presented through models and frameworks, role plays and genuine case studies.
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A new change delivery model
The 'Making change stick' chapter enabled me to evolve a new change delivery model.
Building on the original 'Iron triangle' of 'Time, Quality, Cost', I developed the 'iron square'. For me, the triangle was missing the most important delivery component! And that's all I'm saying....
An original coaching framework
A coaching framework or model provides a structure for a coaching conversation, to guide the process and focus on the end goal.
Sue's own model helps coaches navigate and guide the conversation using a logical sequence and avoids an outcome-driven session becoming a cosy chat!
More about the book
Who is the target audience?
We wrote the book with three key audiences in mind:
1. Change leaders interested in finding out more about the myriad ways in which every-day challenges such as post acquisition integration and lasting change benefit from the application of skills traditionally linked to coaching.
2. Accredited coaches who wish to understand more about how their existing skillset could be deployed in a change management setting.
3. Students of organisational change wishing to carry out wider reading on the topic with a more hands-on guide than the traditional academic texts offer.
Business Book Awards - 2023
Our book was nominated for the Business Book Awards in 2023, under the Change & Sustainability category.
We might have come away empty-handed but to be nominated for a first title was really exciting for us. The recognition of the originality of the combined subject matters was very flattering too.
Buy the book!
The book is available in paperback, hardback and Ebook from Kogan Page and Amazon.
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