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The frameworks

Leadership

Change communication

Help people understand a change well enough to move with it.

Announcing a change to the people it affects.

Intent · Application framework · No. 127

The shape

  1. What is changing
  2. Why
  3. What it means for you
  4. What happens next
  5. What is expected

Why that order

The third step is the one people are actually waiting for, and announcements that skip it get heard as evasion however good the reasoning was.

A worked example

From next month, customer escalations move into one centralised process. We are doing this because ownership is currently unclear. For your team it means all escalations enter through the new queue. Training starts next week. Everyone uses the new process from the first.

Mostly serves Intent, and reaches into Connection and Message.

A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.

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