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12System twelve: Change

Leading French business school INSEAD tells us that transformation efforts are four times more successful when middle managers are on board, according to their 2010 research paper, ‘How middle managers’ group‐focus emotions and social identities influence strategic implementation’. As a B‐Suite Leader, you play a pivotal role in the success of workplace change, so it's important you understand how change works.

My ChangeSAFE System is not traditional change management training. Instead, it is a comprehensive model that addresses all the variables in change: emotions, behaviours and logic. The model draws on some of the most robust research and science in the world — and the good news is, you already know a lot of this. The model pulls all that you have learned into one of the most powerful of the Systems of Impact.

As a human, you will respond to the emotions and stressors that are inherent in workplace change; we all do. As a B‐Suite Leader, your reaction is often heightened because you might not agree with or understand the decisions taken, yet you are expected to implement them.

This system helps you lead yourself and others through workplace change in a way that lowers stress, lifts performance, channels energy more constructively, and strengthens everyone's ability to adapt and recover.

When you minimise the emotional impact of change and lead people to move through it more quickly, everyone regains their resilience with greater ease. The goal is ...