Headline: Change Management: From Managing Resistance to Nurturing Belief
If you’re a change manager, you sit in the middle of the storm. You’re expected to translate strategy into behaviours, align comms with reality, manage the noise of resistance, and somehow still deliver on time.
Too often, change management gets reduced to toolkits: stakeholder matrices, comms templates, impact assessments. Important, yes—but rarely sufficient. Because people don’t live in spreadsheets. They live in stories, habits, fears, and small acts of belief (or disbelief).
Whatever Next? speaks directly to this reality. It’s not a manual for templates. It’s a companion for moments. It gives you five lenses—Reflect, Reimagine, Reframe, Rewire, Reconnect—that help you pause, sense, and adjust as you guide others through uncertainty.
- Reflect asks you to be honest about starting points. What baggage is really in play? What strengths are we overlooking?
- Reimagine helps you create space for people to dream beyond “the new process.”
- Reframe equips you to surface the unsaid: what are people really resisting, and why?
- Rewire anchors you to outcomes, not just outputs—are behaviours shifting or just roles renamed?
- Reconnect ensures you never lose sight of the human thread: how does a real day flow for the people living this change?
For change managers, the provocation is clear: you’re not here to “manage” resistance—you’re here to nurture belief. Belief in possibility, in progress, in the promise that this change is worth the effort.
Provocation: Are you managing resistance—or nurturing belief?
If you’re navigating the messy middle of change, discover Whatever Next?. It offers practical provocations for when the template falls short, and belief is what really matters. Available now at whatevernextbook.com.
