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Organizations invest enormous energy in planning change \u2014 new roles, restructured teams, governance redesigns, updated processes, strategic plans. And when those changes don’t 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’t getting on board\u201d. But there’s a third explanation that’s 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’ll 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’ll 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’re actually living in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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