Hello… it’s been a while!
I’ve had quite a bit going on - full time contract, Another Door programmes, a new platform, writing book 2, solo parenting and then school holidays. So I had to put some things on hold to save sanity!
With the contract now ended it’s back to Another Door, back to pitching for contracts (if you want to support your team through change drop me a message!) and writing book 2.
Book 2 has been a bit of a turbulent venture. The first pitch was rejected by Penguin. And it never went out to anyone else. So I scrapped some of it and wrote over it. My agent wasn’t comfortable with the new write so I made more changes. Which still wasn’t right. But I kept writing - I was quite enjoying it, and I thought it was really good ha ha. But it still wasn’t right for pitch.
So - I scrapped it. Put the whole thing in the (virtual) bin. I might come back to it. But for now it’s parked.
And I started again - with a different theme. Which is what I’m exploring now.
The working title is:
Why change at work could be the very moment that you rethink everything - Five steps to owning change
It sits in the space of helping you to work through change to make it work for you. It’s often the missing piece of change and transformation programmes.
The communication plans are in place, the PMO set up, the training to support the vision ready to go, the leadership team all onboard.
But - what about employees? Who is helping them through change.
You can have the best vision, the most burning platform, the northest star in the World - but if people aren’t open to change you are dragging your employees up hill to see a view they don’t know they want to see when they’d rather be at the bottom enjoying the cafe.
And sometimes people don’t know they want to change. So books like ‘How to Change’ have jumped on a step. What if you don’t want to change, you just have navigate through it.
So the book is about meeting you at the moment change is all around you at work, in what ever form that looks like - new team, new job, new boss, new strategy, re brand, merger, relocation, new project. And it walks with you as you think about what it means for you, and how you can own it, and see opportunity.
So that’s what Ive been doing. A lot of writing (probably about 80,000 words with all the rewrites). A lot of thinking.
I’d love to know what you think.
Would you buy Why change at work could be the very moment that you rethink everything - Five steps to owning change ?
I’m not sure I’ll be here every day at 6pm yet - summer holidays are a juggle and I want to be there for my daughter, as well as try to earn some money!
But - it’s good to be back.
And the autumn is shaping up to be full of writing and things to share with you.
Eleanor
Welcome back, you have been missed