Are you taking the wrong approach to organizational change?

My brilliant friend Michelle Flores Vryn just published "Diagnosed from a Distance" - an article about the disconnect between how funders, boards, and consultants view, speak about and fund change in organizations and how it's lived by the leaders and people who are actually doing the work.

As someone who spends quite a bit of time advising nonprofit executives and boards on organizational change, I'm here to say - this is a must-read.

Change isn't a checklist
Or a process with easy, predictably timed steps.
Change isn't about creating a false sense of urgency
Or introducing new tools.

Organizational change is about behavior, environment and opportunity.
→ Moving people from one way of working to another.
→ Adjusting environments to remove hidden barriers and support new approaches.
→ Designing systems that incentivize meeting real needs over meeting metrics.

The realities and dichotomies Michelle lays out here are critical for social impact leaders to understand.

We have to go beyond wanting to "look good," if we truly want to be and do good.

For those of us who spend our days consulting with and advising social impact leaders and boards, that also means reflecting on how we can better support nonprofits through times of change - meeting the real needs of the people who power our social impact organizations as they continue their important work.

Read Michelle's article here: https://bit.ly/3OCldlq