We’re so glad you’ve joined us for Part 2 of our conversation on navigating organizational change. In today’s episode, we dive into three more essential behaviors that will help you confidently and compassionately pastor your people through the necessary changes that come with pursuing your church’s full potential.

Recap episode 288:

3 behaviors to help us navigate organizational change with confidence:

• Understand that resistance to change is more about loss than change. Ask yourself: what are people losing with this change?
• Take a right brain approach. Our temptation at times is to “left brain” the loss associated with change.
• Talk about the losses openly and compassionately. This is one of the most healing things a leader can do during a time of change.

Episode 289: Three Additional Behaviors:

Understand the stages of grief

• Denial: Denial is merciful . . .at least for a while. It helps soften the immediate shock of loss.
• Anger: Pain starts to surface, often redirected as frustration, resentment, or blame.
• Bargaining: A search for meaning/control—try to make deals with God, others, or ourselves.
• Depression: Deep sadness, withdrawal, as the reality of the loss sets in.
• Acceptance: Making peace with the loss and beginning to move forward.

Communicate clearly and consistently

• Be clear about what’s changing and what’s not changing.
• Communicate creatively and often.

Honor the past, but don’t stay beholden to it

• A beautiful and balanced way to lead through change—honoring the past without being held captive by it.
• Reassure people that change doesn’t mean abandonment of the past—it means building on it

Pastor – your role . . . if you’re following the leading of the Holy Spirit . . . will be peppered with moments and seasons of necessary change