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Creating Change When You Don't Have Agency with Sinikka Waugh

How do I create change in my organization when I don’t have the authority to make it happen?

Whether you are trying to kick off an Agile Transformation or introduce some other type of change that will impact your organization beyond your team and/or pay grade, creating change when you don’t feel empowered to do so is not an easy thing. 

My colleague Jeff Howey and I frequently get questions around this topic in the classes we teach so we invited Sinnika Waugh to join us and share some ideas about ways to initiate change when your inner voice, (or the org chart), is telling you that ain’t your gig. 

Sinikka  Waugh is the Founder of Your Clear Next Step, an organization that provides training, coaching, and support to organizations and individuals with the ultimate goal of offering people a better workday so that when that day is over they are better prepared to truly show up and co-create a better experience at home and in their communities. She is also a PMP and the former VP of Marketing and Communications for the Central Iowa PMI Chapter. 

In this episode of the podcast, Sinikka joins Jeff Howey and me to help address the question of “How do I create change when I lack agency?”

drunkenpmradio · Driving Change When You Don't Have Agency w Sinikka Waugh

Contacting Sinikka

Contacting Jeff

Posted on: May 24, 2021 07:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Resistance to Change with Christine Converse and Ross Beurmann

Christine Converse and Ross Beurmann are back and this time we’re picking up the thread from something that came up during our previous interview. The title of the episode is Resistance to Change and the conversation centers around the problems we face when trying to create change within a team or organization. More specifically, we talk about how you can influence others to change when you have no authority, the people you are trying to help may have no desire to be helped. Whether you are working in an agile environment, a traditional organization, or something that is careening back and forth between the two, this interview is going to give you a lot to think about.

 


drunkenpmradio · Resistance to Change with Christine Converse and Ross Beurmann

CONTACTING CHRISTINE AND ROSS

If you’d like to reach out to Christine or Ross, here are some ways to reach them:

Christine Converse

Ross Beurmann

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