Resilience Alliance Blog

My Writing Retreat

Earlier this month, I took a 10-day writing retreat to focus on my next book. I felt so surrounded and lifted by the good thoughts people sent me as I was preparing to go that I thought I would write an account of the retreat to share with my friends and well-wishers. The Place I […]

Managing Change Overload: Part 3–Magnitude of Change Demand

As we seek to understand change-related overload, we've talked about *why* change is demanding, and we've talked about the sources of change demand. The next piece of the puzzle has to do with the magnitude of demand. Each change we encounter brings a different amount...

Expectations vs. Reality

Resilience Alliance's president, Linda Hoopes, and one of our partners, Jessica Bronzert of Lowe's, co-presented on change capacity and demand at the 2014 Change Management Conference.  Please enjoy a clip from this presentation here.  

Managing Change Overload: Part 2–Sources of Change Demand

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about change demand and how it can create overload. In Part 2, I will focus on the sources of change demand. Any place there is a gap between expectations and reality, change demand occurs. This means that change demand can come from...

Team Resilience Profile and Certification

Dear Resilience Practitioners: While many of you are using group profiles effectively to help teams explore their combined responses to change, the Team Resilience Profile goes beyond this by including a second tool that evaluates the team's effectiveness in combining...

Music and Resilience

A while back, the obituaries page in my newspaper had two stories on it. One was about Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the family who was the basis for "The Sound of Music." They escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, and went on to perform music...

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