{"id":12794,"date":"2026-05-12T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mcn\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12794"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:20:35","slug":"new-structures-old-habits-why-change-doesnt-stick-and-what-we-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/gc.gcdev3.com\/mcn\/events\/new-structures-old-habits-why-change-doesnt-stick-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"New structures, old habits: Why change doesn\u2019t stick and what we can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Organizations invest enormous energy in planning change \u2014 new roles, restructured teams, governance redesigns, updated processes, strategic plans.\u00a0 And when those changes don\u2019t produce the outcomes they were designed for, the instinct is usually to question the design (did we get this \u201cright\u201d?) or to look at the people who \u201caren\u2019t getting on board\u201d. But there\u2019s a third explanation that\u2019s almost always part of what\u2019s at play: the behavioral, relational, and cultural work required to make the new structure actually function was never planned for or resourced. Structure creates the conditions for change, but it can\u2019t produce change on its own.<\/p>\n

In this session, we\u2019ll explore why organizational changes so often fail to deliver on their promise \u2014 not because the design was wrong, but because the work of helping people actually operate differently within a new structure is its own work that so many change processes skip. We\u2019ll look at what that work involves, where it tends to break down, and what you can do as a leader to close the gap between the organization you envisioned and the one you\u2019re actually living in.<\/p>\n

This session might be for you or your organization if\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve made real structural changes, and things still feel mostly the same<\/p>\n

You\u2019re hearing \u201cwe already tried that\u201d or \u201cnothing ever actually changes around here.\u201d<\/p>\n

You find yourself wondering whether the problem is the design or the people, and neither answer quite fits<\/p>\n

Your team has new roles, new processes, or new expectations on paper, but old habits and patterns persist in practice<\/p>\n

You want practical approaches for leading the kind of change that doesn\u2019t happen through org charts alone<\/p>\n