Released in May, the recently published Change Fatigue by Jenny Magic and Melissa Breker focuses on what the authors call ‘flipping teams from burnout to buy-in.’

In a recent member’s call, we were joined by the two authors.

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What critical skills do you need to build to further your content marketing career?

Working with technology and data, management skills, and creativity top the list.

Thanks, Content Marketing Institute and Jodi Harris, for including me in this piece.

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Change is literally everywhere. Our latest article for Content Marketing Institute highlights ways you can strengthen your 'change muscle' to make it easier on everyone. Melissa Breker
#changemanagement #betterchange #contentmarketing

Understand the potential impact of change, so you can proactively plan to minimize resistance, says @MelissaBreker Jenny Magic.
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Understanding and learning how to work with 'context' is key to developing new approaches to design & management better suited to addressing complex challenges. This article discusses bit.ly/3JX9eb7

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Often, we frame our change activities in a challenging way: 'break the rules', 'confront the status quo', 'daring to fail & learn' etc. Why don't we flip this & just give ourselves permission to do things? I'm inspired by these 'permission slips' from Kyle Wiens. What do you give

Complex challenges require effective collaboration across disciplines, sectors and organisations, taking a relational approach can help. Here are 5 tips I've learned from my own research and apply in practice. I'll admit, it's not easy... #effectivecollaboration

Is your organization's #content team stressed out by a big change ahead in strategy or
operations? Create a plan to gather support, clear obstacles, and keep efforts moving in the right direction. Jenny Magic and Melissa Breker share how to do it. buff.ly/3YxITan

As a reminder, if team members are afraid to speak up because they might be punished if wrong, then you are going to lose the benefits of teams (lots of minds & perspectives on a single task), but have all of the downsides. Psychological safety is vital! oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/the-problem-…

Some more great advice on how to establish a community of practice (or community of action or learning and improvement community) & enable it to thrive & deliver its goals from EU_ScienceHub. 120 pages of wisdom, based on research & insights: op.europa.eu/en/publication… TY Claudio Nichele

An interesting article offering four styles of listening and some guidance on when to adopt which approach sloanreview.mit.edu/article/broade…

Personal News: On Friday, I, along with most of my design team, was laid off. If you’re looking for:

- a Principal designer/manager
- Senior Designer
- Early career Designer

reach out. They are all US based, good people, and good designers. B2C oriented. We were remote.

Each of us can help create a culture of psychological safety: 1) Admit our own mistakes 2) Run lots of experiments to try out improvements 3) Make space to speak, be curious & say 'I don't know' 4) Be patient - psychological safety takes time/effort/persistence. By Tom Geraghty

'Radical collaboration' is about working together in deeper, more relational ways than transactional approaches. It's about shared decisions & working through conflict with humility & vulnerability. It's what system leaders need to do: collectivechangelab.medium.com/what-does-radi… V @WeAreCoCreative

When I became a manager, the Skill-Will Matrix was the most important framework I learned.

Your management style should depend on the employee’s context. Some people lack motivation (will), others expertise (skill) and some both.

You can’t just manage people how you like to be.

One of the 5 practices of exemplary leadership, according to Jim Kouzes is to 'model the way'. Leaders who set a personal example, eg speaking well of colleagues & initiating change, are much more likely to have direct reports showing the same behaviours: leadershipchallenge.com/Research/Five-…

Bill Nye said “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

And this new paper shows Nye is right. People learn far more from a conversation with a stranger than they expect, and not just about the person; they learn useful information as well. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…