Presenter: Marianne Carter, FFIs Director of Conservation Capacity and Leadership

This webinar was part of the Organisational Resilience Festival 2022, hosted by FFI and WCS. 

Session Outline & Highlights:

• Overview of available tools for handling organisational changes (e.g. Mind Tools)
• Organisations constantly change because they are dynamic 
• Important to discuss changes as they happen 
• Change management involves looking at wider picture not just direct impact(s) of change 
• Types of change: incremental; transformative
• How goals can be defined 
• External and internal factors that drive change 
• Realistic expectations about what change process involves (time, etc.) 
• Think about leadership capacity; middle management capacity; employee capacity 
• Pay attention to factors that might not be visible to everybody (such as values of an organisation) 
• Need open lines of communication 
• Celebration is key in the process  
• Reflect on past changes to help as you go through more 
• Keep your ‘why’ in mind 
• Address concerns as they arise 
• Sometimes the little changes can make a big difference (example story provided)
• Importance of diversity, experimentation, etc.  

This webinar was made possible through funding by Arcadia –a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.