Hear ye, hear ye!

Announcing the inaugural  #changeblogchallenge!!

You know how I bang on a bit about change practitioners need to share their wisdom more in order for organisations, managers and leaders to understand what good change looks like? Well Heather Stagl of Enclaria and I reckon we might have a way to make that happen.

We’re creating a platform for a social media storm to share change practitioners wisdom. Here’s how it works:

Once every three months we focus on a key topic in change work.

You get to write a post / blog / article on that topic that is between 200 and 2000 words.

When you hit publish you hashtag it #changeblogchallenge so that others can find it.

You let your network know about it.

Where do I publish it?

• Linkedin updates (Shorter posts)
• Linkedin articles (longer articles)
• Your own blog
• Your own facebook page
• Medium
• As a guest poster for some-one else who has a blog
• Instagram (if that’s your preference)
• Your internal ESN (eg yammer, Workplace, jive) – maybe get your leadership team to pen their thoughts?

What’s the publishing schedule and topics

Excellent question: here’s what we’re thinking with some suggested themes. It’s totally up to you though to interpret how you want.

January – March: Change Resistance

• Really? We’re still talking about resistance?
• How my thinking on change resistance has evolved?
• How do you identify resistance? What does it look like and how do you discover it?
• What do you do when you encounter resistance?

April – June: Change Communication

• What do you know about change communication now, that you didn’t know when you started
• 5 change communication tools / techniques / tactics  you need to know about
• Agile change communication – more than just talk faster

July – September: Change Readiness

• The brain and change readiness
• If change is constant, what does perpetual change readiness mean
• 7 signs you’re not change ready

October – December: Change Leadership

• What it really means when “everybodies a leader’
• Why following ain’t so bad
• Change leadership in a VUCA world

Handy tips

• The article title should fit your article. In other words, don’t use “#ChangeBlogChallenge:  Resistance” as your article title. Use something specific to your perspective, like “Ten Tips for Overcoming Resistance to Change.”
• Somewhere in your article, include “This article is a response to the #ChangeBlogChallenge on [topic]” with a link to this post or one that Heather has shared to kick it off.
• Sharing is caring: If you read something that resonates use the hashtag #ChangeBlogChallenge to share
• Let people know if you invite them to post their own #changeblogchallenge
• Use a related reading tag with other posts on the topic on the bottom of your post
• When you post your article on social media, use the hashtag #ChangeBlogChallenge.

Now, over to you –>  GO! GET WRITING. OR TAG SOME-ONE WHO DOES WRITE